The Vanderbilt Unity Poll surveyed 1,033 U.S. adults from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10.

Respondents were unified in their view on the importance of universities teaching core skills.

The survey also shows a clear divide when it comes to more highly polarized subjects that have dominated the national debate on education.

Respondents to a new national Vanderbilt University poll seem to have reached at least one consensus: There’s a fundamental value to higher education. What's not quite as clear is how much politics should bleed into the classroom.

That’s according to the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, which surveyed 1,033 U.S. adults from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10 on issues largely related to higher education as part of the Vanderbilt Unity Poll.

The university announced the highligh

See Full Page