Eh, I don’t think that would work to actually get more conservative professors, just to get pay raises for the ones that exist. In my experience, conservatives who want to be professors are businessmen and engineers (two subjects that I happily never plan on taking in the future) and they don’t usually hold degrees in ‘soft sciences’. Then again, I’m mostly in the hard sciences, where politics are considered ‘boring’ and people are getting quite fed up with Obama’s ‘all talk, no action’ stance on science.
I’m a history major, and yes I had one professor who was a conservative, and he was wonderful. While I agree the majority are in hard sciences, we need to support conservatives in the arts too.
Of course some disciplines are anathema, sociology, women’s studies, that sort of thing, but there are some which are completely compatible with a conservative that we should not concede. Look at Dr. Mike Adams at UNC, he’s a conservative professor in the arts. We need more just like him.