Liberals represent a large majority of American faculty, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Does minority status affect the work of conservative scholars or the academy as a whole? In Passing on the Right, Dunn and Shields explore the actual experiences of conservative academics, examining how they navigate their sometimes hostile professional worlds. Technological revolutions, acute financial pressures, and deep cultural shifts undermining the traditional humanistic curriculum are forcing a profound rethinking and restructuring of American higher education today, about which the professoriate at its epicenter sometimes seems the least perceptive and prepared. In the midst of this protracted upheaval, Passing on the Right raises the difficult question of political ideology and its implications for academia's mission. It will only help higher education and the society that sustains it if this book is widely read and debated." -Christian Smith, Wm. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame