Economics professor Mark Glick includes different theories and viewpoints to make his lectures more balanced. He tries to keep his opinions to himself. If a student seeks his view, he will ask the student how she or he feels, then take the opposite side. Glick is comfortable with his teaching manner, but does not tout it as the best. But it is fine in a department where faculty run the gamut from radical to conservative, he says.
Students emerge with a well-rounded education.
Susan Olson, a political science professor, feels similarly. If asked her political affiliations or opinions, she tries to dodge the issue until the quarter has ended. It works for her. People just develop their own approach over the years. Sociology professor Charles Hunt's approach is to talk freely about his views and values.