Elite University Scholarship Recipients Interested in Overwhelmingly Liberal Issues, Report Finds
5/21/2024
The vast majority of American students selected to the most prestigious post-graduate scholarship programs in the world pursue left-leaning, progressive courses of study, a recent report found.
In the past five years, only one of 157 American Rhodes Scholars expressed an interest in conservative issues. And for the Truman Scholarship, just six of 182 U.S. recipients did so, according to a report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) published on May 6.
Even the seven scholars who did express interest in conservative issues “aren’t especially conservative” based on the “the nature of their interest,” according to the report, authored by AEI Senior Fellow Frederick Hess.