College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds

Washington Post ^ | March 29, 2005 | Howard Kurtz

[bgsugar]

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.

By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.

[bgsugar]

And this tells us something that was not already painfully obvious????

[FormerACLUmember]

The last outposts of Marxism on earth are the hellholes of North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba, and (ironically) the academic tenured toilets of America.

[dead]

15 percent are conservative

I’d wager that more than half of that 15% are actually lying liberals who realize how these surveys strengthen the conservative contention that academic thought is insular.

[talleyman]

In other news, the Pope was found to be a Catholic...

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Does this really SUPRISE anyone? Because if it does man are you out of touch with reality....

[14erClimb]

This reminds me of a favorite quote of mine:

"Those who can, do; Those who can't, teach."

Liberals can't.

[Rummyfan]

Why bother to even take a poll? One need only look at what's happening at Harvard and the U of Colorado to know where academia stands, and those two egregious examples are only the tip of the iceberg.

[wmileo]

"72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative"


I refuse to call it Liberal verses Conservative. Those labels meant something during the first 60 years of the 20th century. However in today's world, the terms do not begin to describe the real meanings. We have pro-communists who support left wing repressive regimes like Zimbabwe, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. They call themselves Liberals but they are not. They we have Americans with traditional open mindedness and tolerance. Those are the ones called Conservatives by pro-communists who insist on calling themselves Liberals.

[Kenton]

By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative

I'm amazed that 15% of college professors actually self-identified as conservatives. That's kinda like self-identifying as a pedophile to the rest of us.

Either [a] they're BS'ing the poll taker because the question is so obviously addressed at exposing the liberal bias at universities, or [b] they're deeply in a conservative "closet", secret Republicans if you will, who only get to express themselves anonymously when somebody does a survey like this.

Self-identifying as a conservative is professional and social suicide at most liberal schools.

[marblehead17]

ping

[SMARTY]

"possible discrimination" against conservatives in hiring and promotion"

POSSIBLE???

[Aquinasfan]

lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined,

I thought it was 90-10.

Catholic parents, don't let your kids grow up to be college students, unless their college is:

Ave Maria, Benedictine, Christendom, U Dallas, Magdalene, Steubenville, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas More, Our Lady of Corpus Christi, Redeemer Pacific, St. Mary's College of Madonna, Southern Catholic College.

[Jedidah]

. . . . or Texas A&M. Whoop!

[FormerACLUmember]

bttt

[noblejones]

I worked much of my early life towards becoming a professor of literature. By my second year in the doctoral program at the University of San Francisco, not the most liberal place by the way, I came to realize I couldn't buy the PC crap that would be required of me. I liked my professors and fellows quite much, but I did not respect their rigid view of the world.

At that point I closed out at USF with only a masters degree and shifted to that highly conservative profession of graphic design. What can I say; I'm overly optimistic.

[festus]

Knight said he isn't aware of "any good evidence" that personal views are having an impact on campus policies.

Nope no evidence nothing at all. Not a stitch.

[bdeaner]

Probably an anonymous poll.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Were you getting into too many arguments and felt out numbered? The irony is that most these academics who claim to respect diversity, will not respect people who have a different point of view other than their own. The honest ones will meet you in debate, the sneaky ones will blackball you...

Anyway, that has been my experience.