Why Campuses are Blue

American Journalism Center ^ | February 17, 2010 | Sheila Archambault

[junta]

White libs proving once again they are a joke. One day the chair of Islamic studies will sign off on the paperwork eliminating the positions of the last jew and feminist at Harvard, and these clowns will wonder, “Where’s my pension check?”

[Tublecane]

So, basically, the answer is they don’t want to be stuck with a bunch of libs all their lives.

[Pessimist]

Not much of a study, really.

Their claim that conservatives don’t become professors because they know most professors are liberals doesn’t address the real question:

How did it get that way to begin with?

[achilles2000]

The study is rubbish. You asked the right question: How did they get that way? The answer is that once the New Left infilitrated the campuses they gradually took control. Once they had control it was almost impossible for anyone who didn’t share their views to have a career. If by chance you happened to get a teaching position, it was virtually certain they would prevent you from getting tenure.

For almost two generations the primary qualifications for getting a university job have been political.

[Roccus]

Why Campuses are Blue

....draft exemption for teachers in the 60's....now they're in the top positions.

[Hawthorn]

Enough of this misusing the term “blue.”

Most professors — at least outside of engineering, business schools and the hard sciences — are REDS, or at least PINKOs.

[Skenderbej]

Anyone who knows liberals knows that they do not have a high tolerance for controversial ideas. They embrace EVERY controversial idea and do not tolerate dissension.

[tongass kid]

How did they get that way you ask. I have been a part of this community for 4 decades. The liberal draft dodgers of the 60’s stayed in school and graduated school and moved from TA to Assistant Professor and are today Department Heads and Senior Adminstrators. The flower children of the 60’s now control the educational and political agenda on most campus in our country.

[Pessimist]

Interesting point. I hadn’t thought of that.

And unfortunately I can’t think of any equal and opposite stimulus that would turn it back around.

[Roccus]

GMTA (see my #6)

[tongass kid]

yep

[fieldmarshaldj]

They’re REDS. Screw Orwellian media newsspeak.

[Art in Idaho]

For almost two generations the primary qualifications for getting a university job have been political.

Time to change that. I can envision retired teachers, professors, any professional, skills of all types and kinds - starting conservative colleges and universities across the US. Have "Tea Party" schools. . . . it's time to take back our country and take back our institutions of higher learning. . .

[achilles2000]

Eliminate tenure and start firing the (formerly) tenured radicals. Another approach would be to begin by using funding constraints to eliminate all “studies” departments and pare to a minimum the humanities and social science departments. We don’t have to give up the institutions if we elect people with the courage to be called names by unemployed leftists and their friends in the media.

[Art in Idaho]

. . . Another approach would be to begin by using funding constraints to eliminate all “studies” departments and pare to a minimum the humanities and social science departments.

Amen to that. When I first heard of the "studies" departments, I thought it was , okay, take a course in it. When I found out you could Major in this or that "studies" and actually graduate with a degree, I was dumbfounded. I was a Bio major and Chem and Philosophy minors, so didn't feel it was the same, if you get my drift. . .

[dan1123]

I think you have two philosophies at work. The conservatives tolerate intellectual dissent, while liberals do not. Therefore over time, the less tolerant will drive out the more tolerant.

[tongass kid]

Not sure what you are saying. My perspective is from serving on two different college boards and as a college president. tk

[Impy]

Damn college kids shouldn’t be allowed to vote in their college states if they aren’t really from there.

[Oneofthefew]

I often wonder how I managed to obtain a degree, get hired, recruited, tenured, and then promoted into administration in the midst of the pervasive liberalism. I can assure you that if my conservative views were known that I would never have been considered for my current position. If I keep my views to myself for a few more I should be able to become a Dean or VP. At that point, maybe I will come out of the conservative closet and run for congress, or at least write a book. A Conservative Yankee in King Obama’s Court?