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Does 4 years of college make students more liberal?

  • Written by Matthew J. Mayhew, The William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
imageStudents' positive attitudes toward conservative ideas are the same before and after four years of college. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

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Over four years of college, students develop positive attitudes for political liberals but not conservatives.

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