The familiar complaint among students about biased teaching on campus was debunked in the Pack Poll’s latest flash poll this semester. Contrary to popular thinking, the majority of students at N.C. State do not consider there to be any political bias in the classroom setting. To test the effects of question wording, the Pack Poll constructed two differently worded questions that effectively asked the same thing. The first question shifted the attention to the individual instructor. Half of the student sample was asked, “Do you think N.C. State faculty are politically biased in the classroom?” The second half of the [...]
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Students support ‘liberal’ reforms to immigration policies
In the Spring 2013 Pack Poll, which surveyed over 900 students, immigration was one of the issues we asked about. Our main findings...
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Arm school principals, background checks for all, State students say
N.C. State students were asked about gun control and gun-related issues in the 2013 Spring Pack Poll. The survey was conducted between...
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Trends in students’ political beliefs
Obama’s Approval The spring 2013 Pack Poll measured students’ approval of the president for the sixth continuous semester, all...
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Facebook’s death grip
Facebook—the distracted student’s worst enemy—has a devilish hold on N.C. State’s undergraduate community. The Pack Poll found...
Highlights
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Word clouds convey faculty and student sentiment on candidates
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Not Radicals
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Political Organizations Active on Campus: Students Registered to Vote
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Election Looms, State Students Evenly Divided
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State Students Largely Opposed to Amendment One
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State Students not Utilizing Social Media for Politics
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Pack Poll in The Technician
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Local News Features Pack Poll
