International Students & Conservative Students: How Are They Doing In Academic Philosophy? (guest post)

“Conservative and international students face different challenges: one feels forced to self-censor while the other reports fewer job opportunities. No significant impact on employment is found for either but conservative respondents report higher rates of satisfaction in philosophy.” That’s a brief summary of findings about conservative graduate students and international graduate students currently or recently enrolled in philosophy PhD programs, based on data collected by Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) in its 2025 survey. In the following guest post, APDA founder and co-director Carolyn Dicey Jennings shares the details. [A version of this post also appears at the APDA blog.] [Vito Acconci, lithographs from the series, “Stones for a Wall”] International Students & Conservative Students: How Are They Doing In Academic Philosophy? by Carolyn Dicey Jennings In this, the final summer post on the 2025 survey, we highlight two populations of survey participants: those who…