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Vassar College's course descriptions average 69.5 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Vassar College reads 1.9 points further left.

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Vassar College: 69.5 (likely range 68.3 to 70.6) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

3%Far left92–100

22%Left75–91

70%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

243 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

AFRS 110 · Prison Abolition and Black Liberation100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course examines regimes of imprisonment and state violence that spawn carceral structures and the strategies of resistance racialized captives have used to disrupt and dismantle them. By calling into…

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POLI 284 · Temporality, Ecology, and Technoscience95

Political Science

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as STS 284 ) Drawing from decolonial ecologies, queer ecofeminisms, and other critical, ecosophical perspectives, this theory course engages the politics of ecology and technology insofar as these…

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AMST 208 · Demilitarizing the Pacific94

Ethnic & African American Studies

1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 208 ) The Pacific euphemistically called "America's Lake" has been a site of US empire building and Indigenous and Asian resistance against US military expansion. This course examines demilitarization movements in…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College has 243 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 68.3 to 70.6; 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.

Vassar College by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	51.2%	43	view
Sociology	46.7%	45	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	42.9%	252	view
Political Science	32.4%	74	view
History	32.2%	87	view
Anthropology	18.9%	53	view
English & Comparative Literature	18.1%	83	view
Religious Studies	12.2%	41	view
Philosophy	7.3%	41	view
Art & Art History	7.2%	83	view
Psychology	2.6%	39	view
Economics	0%	34	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
Vassar College	mean_bias_score	69.5	68.3 – 70.6	875	243
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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