Posted on 05/03/2021 10:03:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A progressive friend and I were discussing higher education this morning. The topic was, of course, the political leanings of professors. She told me she thought there was a “lean” towards progressivism at most colleges but that it was likely closer to even between conservatives and progressives at elite schools like Harvard. I laughed, saying it’s probably even worse at schools like Harvard because the lifetime academia who find their way there work through a network of which I am very familiar. Only the brightest radical leftist minds can get a full-time gig as a professor at Harvard, I told her.
So, we looked it up with a friendly wager of our favorite non-alcoholic beverage. For me, it was great espresso from any coffee house that didn’t have a pagan mermaid goddess as its logo. For her, it was anything fruity as long as it was organic. Thankfully, I won’t be heading to Jamba Juice anytime soon because what we discovered from an article that coincidentally ran the same day as our wager proved that not only was I right, I was far more right than I even imagined.
A story at College Fix pointed to a survey by the Harvard Crimson. In it, dated April 9th of this year, they asked 236 professors to rate their political leanings on a scale from “very liberal” all the way to “very conservative.” By my reckoning, which I believed to be somewhere between 10-20% conservative, there should have been 23-47 professors who identified “somewhat conservative” or “very conservative.” I was wrong.
There were seven. According to the College Fix:
The Crimson’s latest survey of faculty found just seven professors identify as “somewhat” or “very conservative,” roughly 3 percent of survey respondents. In both surveys, the vast majority of professors say they are “liberal” or “very liberal.” The spread is so striking that the Crimson recently reported on right-leaning professors as an “endangered species” at the Ivy League institution.
“While the University has made a concerted effort across the past decade to promote gender and racial diversity among its faculty, Harvard has not made any explicit attempts to bolster representation from across the ideological spectrum,” the campus newspaper reported.
The article points out that this trend can be found across higher education. But Harvard has a longstanding reputation as the best university in the nation. The Crimson quotes a professor who said even in Harvard’s Economics Department, many faculty will not consider conservative viewpoints on some political issues.
“There’s no tolerance at all at this point for something that says we should just be hiring on the basis of merit in terms of scholarship, teaching ability, and so on,” Professor Robert Barro told the student newspaper. “It’s sort of no question now that, in addition to that, you’re supposed to be heavily weighting various forms of identity.”
Professor Harvey Mansfield, arguably Harvard’s most well-known conservative faculty member, told the Crimson: “There hasn’t been a conservative appointed as a Harvard faculty for the last 10 years, as far as I know.”
This isn’t by accident and it’s not because conservatives don’t want the jobs. For at least seven decades, there has been a well planned and highly coordinated effort by Cultural Marxists and Neo-Marxists to inject the most radical progressive ideologies possible into our higher education systems. They have been working the system to get the right people in places of authority so they can continue the trend towards leftism in colleges and universities. From deans to heads of the school administrations to leaders of alumni groups, the “conspiracy theory” about the leftist takeover of schools was completely years ago and is now in “maintenance mode.”
But it’s worse than that. The trend has been spreading in similar fashion throughout public education as well. Staff and faculty at public K-12 schools lean heavily to the left. This is for massive indoctrination into a leftist worldview targeting the most impressionable people we have: Children. Again, this has been called a “conspiracy theory” for decades but there’s now no way to deny it without being ignorant (like my friend) or complicit.
It is important for conservatives to be inspired and start taking back our schools. That doesn’t just mean getting jobs. It means taking back school boards, as they’ve started doing in districts across the country. We have to be aggressive and proactive if we have any chance of putting the right people in charge of educating our children from the moment they step foot into preschool all the way until they have their college degrees.
The fight to remove political, cultural, and religious bias from our schools is a generational problem which often discourages conservatives from trying. But we must. And we must start doing so now.
for a school to receive state or federal funding,
it should be required for the school to have even
distribution of political views amongst its professors
I’m shocked.......................that there were 3%................ and they probably lied............
And by “conservative” tbey mean agreeable to some ownership of private property.
The problem with Polls ; especially Polls in a place like that is that people are just going to flat out lie!
I’m very conservative and anybody that knows me rather well knows that fact but I work at a pretty liberal place and I would always keep my mouth shut because I know it’s good for me
If I was working in the Harvard faculty you can bet nobody would know anything on my poker face even if they pried and pried and pried with a crowbar
The left is now full on communists and will use communist cancel culture techniques on anybody with even with a sniff , a whiff , of conservatism
No I do believe the tide is turning in people are completely sick of this garbage and are sick of BLM and are sick of gender bending and are sick of all this crap and although you don’t see it in the news because the media is biased I believe that there’s a big tide starting to turn against all this nonsense
If we witness that election in Texas this truth is holding up valid
And I know that our wonderful president who is still president mind you Donald J Trump waited a very very long time to run for president and knows the long game of politics
No I believe that the fraud is going to be uncovered and that he will be reinstated before the end of 2021 I don’t think it’s going to be deniable when the truth about the election comes out
But what Mr. Trump is cleverly done is framed the argument as pro America or anti-America
Is it any wonder that all of our judges and CEOs are left leaning when all of them go through several years of this indoctrination.
I have a friend who believes he is ‘middle’...
hes not. He’s far left.
I wish with all my heart that you are right. Time will tell...
Likely. Very likely.
Im surprised it is that much.
Of the seven, six identify as conservatives even though they are liberals by any objective measure and the seventh was a conservative in the 1950s but is now in the late stages of dementia.
Out of 236 Harvard professors surveyed, guess how many identify as even a little ‘conservative’
NOQ Report ^ | 05/03/2021 | David Patterson
Professor Harvey Mansfield, arguably Harvard’s most well-known conservative faculty member, told the Crimson: “There hasn’t been a conservative appointed as a Harvard faculty for the last 10 years, as far as I know.”
There were seven. According to the College Fix:
This isn’t by accident and it’s not because conservatives don’t want the jobs. For at least seven decades, there has been a well planned and highly coordinated effort by Cultural Marxists and Neo-Marxists to inject the most radical progressive ideologies possible into our higher education systems.
They have been working the system to get the right people in places of authority so they can continue the trend towards leftism in colleges and universities. From deans to heads of the school administrations to leaders of alumni groups, the “conspiracy theory” about the leftist takeover of schools was completely years ago and is now in “maintenance mode.”
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Ask them how many support keeping Asian students out?
Besides $crewing up our business and political world, these elite thugs are the real Deep State in our Federal government at/oin all branches.
Then, add the grads from Georgetown, GW and the state universities nearby to DC for complete left wing/deep state control.
Zero?
Seriously? Have you thought this through?
When I went for my PhD, I did not do it nor did I make the decision to do such based upon my political ideology and I damn sure did not do it with a Uni or college hiring me based upon my political ideology but upon what type degree I had and their needs for that type degree. Now you, and possibly others, want to place one more hiring criteria on type of that?
-11?
This means that out of 236 Harvard professors surveyed, they don’t look like America, at all. They look like blatant cultural Marxist ideologues, and sappy self important fools.
So, they should be abolished, using their own professed “Woke” logic, if you can call it that. Academe, heal thyself.
Dang. I was only off by 3%!
What? What? What? Are you saying a white marxist, a black marxist, a gay marxist, a bi marxists, a female marxist, a brown marxist, an Asian marxist and a few trans marxists isn't 'diversity'? OMG - get ready for a re-education camp....
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