Professors profess less, study finds
By Jeffrey Weiss
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

College professors aren't all godless heathens, but they are more secular than the general population, according to a new study. And the more elite the school, the more secular the professors are likely to be.

The study was done by two sociologists, Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University. They contacted 1,471 professors at religious and secular colleges and asked about politics and faith.

The purpose of their report, released on the Internet, was to assess the observation by many religious conservatives that America's universities are "a haven largely freed from religious perspectives." the rest