PROFS. & POLITICS

Talking about elections in a college classroom – and why professors can be reluctant to bring it up

By Tyler Story and Sarah Sternhagen, The Towerlight

In an election year when the presidency, Senate, House of Representatives and more positions in individual states are up for election there has been a relative quiet in classrooms across TU’s campus on the subject. A large part of whether politics gets brought up in a classroom comes down to the person leading the discussion–the professor.

“Some faculty may feel like they don’t want to get in the middle of a two-sided dynamic,” Joseph Dietrich of the Political Science Department said. Dietrich teaches FINISH READING HERE

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