Study analyzes faculty politics (Overwhelming Proportion of Democrats in Faculty of Ithaca Collge)

The Ithacan (student newspaper of Ithaca College) ^ | April 17, 2003

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Please note one error in the article: the study's authors have stated that the number of professors whose affiliation couldn't be determined was 58, not 211.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Note the comment from the professor of politics - a department in which there are no Republicans.

She moans that there are still too many "white males." Yet she claims she can teach about peasants despite not being one. If that's true, why can't those dreaded white males teach about women and minorities?

In any case, she sees diversity only in terms of sex and skin color. Diversity of thought, the only kind that should really matter in a faculty, is meaningless to her.

[Mister Baredog]

Diversity in all things EXCEPT thinking, this is what is so sad.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Exactly. Only diversity in melanin and internal plumbing count for these people.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Nope, no bias here.

[OneVike]

Seems to me like we need an affirmative action policy for Republicans at our institutions of higher learning!

[bray]

Free Speech has yet to reach academia!

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Kenton]

"Political diversity" has a catchy ring to it... and how could the Left effectively oppose such a thing? Except, perhaps, in the minds the ideologues who want to maintain their death-grip on the hearts and minds of America's children.

Time to end the tenure of the Tenured Radicals whose main mission in life seems to be the destruction of Western Civilization. Their credibility has gone the way of their youth...

[Rabid Dog]

A similar study was done at the University of California - Santa Barbara and it was 90% of the registered voters were democrats.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Gee, "only" 90% Democrats! A veritable hotbed of conservative academic activism!

[Pontiac]

“I do believe Ithaca College can do a better job of diversifying its faculty, most of whom are white males,” Barlas said. “Politics, incidentally, has one of the best track records in this regard, and not having a Republican on our faculty is not the only yardstick by which we can measure diversity.”

It is one way by which we make a point of not measuring diversity

Senior Kara Pangburn, a politics major, said she was not surprised to hear that the majority of professors are registered as Democrats or Greens, but she thought some diversity was still present.

The differences between Democrats and Greens is starkly defined!

“I don’t think that the study takes into account that there is diversity in other senses,” she said. “A lot of the foreign professors — and we have a lot of international professors in the politics department — they don’t identify either way. So you are getting political diversity; you’re just getting it on an international scale.”

They’re not Democrats or Greens they’re Socialist.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

"Political diversity" has a catchy ring to it... and how could the Left effectively oppose such a thing?

Judging from the article, they have managed to find a way to oppose it. The Prof. Barlas, the Chairman of the Politics Department quoted in the article (and who is by the way not a US citizen), is still apparently concerned only with reducing the number of white males on the faculty.

As for Republicans, it's not necessary for there to be any, since she is capable, according to her, of teachin about being a peasant (and presumably a Republican) despite being neither.

[rellimpank]

--has been done repeatedly at the University of Colorado-Boulder for about twenty years with the same results--

[Rabid Dog]

And they have the attitude that goes with it!

[MIgramma]

Uhhhhh!
This "report" is supposedly NEWS!
News would be anything different.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Well, it apparently was news to the President of Ithaca College and to at least one member of its faculty. At a debate on affirmative action a couple weeks before the study came out, they denied any knowledge of a political imbalance in the faculty!

[Mister Baredog]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

My condolences, although I live in West LA, not much better, but it does seem that you are surrounded, please keep up the subversions. I've been hearing the beginnings of backlashes developing on some campuses to their Commie Profs and their Anti-Americanism. Even UC Berkeley has a "conservative" voice on campus(newspaper). Perhaps there is hope for the next generation.

[Scothia]

This is like saying there is an overwhelming majority of Mormons in Salt Lake City.

Look, Ithaca College doesn't want diversity. Neither does Cornell. Neither do Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the state universities, etc. The tenured hippiecrats are seemingly intractable. It's going to be difficult to change this. My brother-in-law is impeded at every turn, because of his conservatism, from getting any kind of tenured position--at venerable Notre Dame.

Perhaps a genearation of "stealth conservatives" could invade academia, throwing off their Democratic veneer as soon as tenure is granted, like the Klingons throwing off a cloaking device. (Sorry, I like the Klingons.)