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Fordham University

Fordham University's course descriptions average 65.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Fordham University reads 1.6 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Fordham University: 65.9 (likely range 64.9 to 66.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

<1%Far left92–100

16%Left75–91

76%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

207 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

ENGL 5600 · Special Topics in Rhetorical Theory & Criticism: Rhetoric, Race, and Identity94

English & Comparative Literature

Using a rhetorical lens, this course explores the ontological and epistemological history of race, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories as they have been invented alongside capitalism. We will begin with overarching theories,…

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WGSS 3004 · Transnational Feminisms88

Women's & Gender Studies

Transnational feminism first emerged as a critical response to global feminist platforms organized around notions of universal sisterhood and the presumption of women's shared oppression. This course considers how the field of transnational…

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COLI 4211 · Empire and Sexuality85

English & Comparative Literature

For many years now, critical queer and trans scholars have traced the intersections between gender and sexual identity formations and the modern exercise of state power. In particular, this body of scholarship has excavated the complicities…

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Furthest right

None. Fordham University has 206 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 64.9 to 66.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Fordham University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Ethnic & African American Studies	23.3%	86	view
Sociology	22.8%	114	view
Anthropology	17.4%	86	view
Women's & Gender Studies	14.3%	77	view
English & Comparative Literature	10.5%	572	view
Art & Art History	7.7%	142	view
History	7.1%	395	view
Religious Studies	5.7%	246	view
Political Science	4.1%	172	view
Economics	3.8%	130	view
Psychology	3.6%	139	view
Philosophy	1.5%	271	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Fordham University	mean_bias_score	65.9	64.9 – 66.9	2,430	207
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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