Conservatives regularly rail against liberal bias in academe, but rarely do such complaints turn into lawsuits that make it all the way to trial. On Monday, Teresa R. Wagner gets to make that argument in a federal court in Davenport, Iowa. She maintains that University of Iowa law-school faculty turned her down for teaching jobs because of her conservative political views.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/too-liberal-for-law-school-trial-begins-monday-in-iowa-bias-case?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en