Ault, Jordan T.

Renner, Faculty Advisor, Tari

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2004, 15th Annual JWP ConferenceApr 17th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Effect of an Illinois Wesleyan UniversityEducation on Political IdeologyJordan T. AultIllinois Wesleyan UniversityTari Renner, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Jordan T. Ault and Tari Renner, Faculty Advisor, "The Effect of an Illinois Wesleyan University Education on PoliticalIdeology" (April 17, 2004). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 2.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2004/oralpres/2THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE - APRIL 2004 Oral Presentation 01.1 THE EFFECT OF AN ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ON POLITICAL IDEOLOGY Jordan T. Ault and Tari Renner* Department of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University This project attempts to measure the change in students' political ideology during their undergraduate education at Illinois Wesleyan University using survey data collected from several hundred students over the last five years. The change in political ideology is correlated with students' gender, cumulative grade point average and major course of study in an attempt to determine the cause of political change in the university setting. In addition to the quantitative findings, the results of several faculty interviews will be presented in an attempt to determine how and why political socialization is taking place on campus. 

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