One thing that might be illuminating to examine in such a study is the effect of major. Back in the 90s it was widely observed that the humanities and social sciences tended towards being more sharply politicized, whereas STEM and professional programs tended to be more apolitical. So you'd expect a degree of self-sorting on this basis; anecdotally I know several examples of people who pursued STEM in part because they didn't want to put up with the political content of a humanities degree. The question would then be whether, during this period, students who entered humanities or social science programs exhibited a larger ideological shift than students who entered STEM, business, etc.
If yes, that's clear evidence for classroom indoctrination over more circumstantial effects experienced by all students e.g. becoming less racist due to meeting people from other races. If no, it could point to circumstantial effects as being more important.
In principle such a study could be done now, but woke is essentially ubiquitous at this point meaning that an inter-program comparison would probably be less instructive.
It also seems like one thing this dataset might be telling us is that a fair fraction of the Great Awokening may be related to dissident students keeping their mouths shut rather than more effective indoctrination techniques. Again, anecdotally, I've seen some amount of evidence to support this.
One thing that might be illuminating to examine in such a study is the effect of major. Back in the 90s it was widely observed that the humanities and social sciences tended towards being more sharply politicized, whereas STEM and professional programs tended to be more apolitical. So you'd expect a degree of self-sorting on this basis; anecdotally I know several examples of people who pursued STEM in part because they didn't want to put up with the political content of a humanities degree. The question would then be whether, during this period, students who entered humanities or social science programs exhibited a larger ideological shift than students who entered STEM, business, etc.
If yes, that's clear evidence for classroom indoctrination over more circumstantial effects experienced by all students e.g. becoming less racist due to meeting people from other races. If no, it could point to circumstantial effects as being more important.
In principle such a study could be done now, but woke is essentially ubiquitous at this point meaning that an inter-program comparison would probably be less instructive.
It also seems like one thing this dataset might be telling us is that a fair fraction of the Great Awokening may be related to dissident students keeping their mouths shut rather than more effective indoctrination techniques. Again, anecdotally, I've seen some amount of evidence to support this.