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Study: Nearly 40 Percent of Top Liberal Arts Colleges Have No GOP Professors
Topic Started: May 7 2018, 10:35 AM (149 Views)
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http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/07/nearly-40-percent-top-liberal-arts-colleges-have-no-republican-professors

A new study found that 39 percent of "top-tier liberal arts colleges" in the United States don't have any Republicans on their faculties.

The study by the National Association of Scholars also found that the Democratic-to-Republican ratio was 10.4:1 among 8,688 Ph.D.-holding professors.
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I think most folks kind of felt that this was the case but it is interesting to see the general feeling confirmed.

I don't really know what if anything can be done about it or even should be done about it though.
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Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
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May 7 2018, 10:55 AM
Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
I don't wholly disagree but then there is this nugget from the article.

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The ratio is 12.7:1 when two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis, are removed from the sample


The fact that removing the military colleges results in a 2.5% increase in the ratio is fascinating.
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May 7 2018, 11:16 AM
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May 7 2018, 10:55 AM
Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
I don't wholly disagree but then there is this nugget from the article.

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The ratio is 12.7:1 when two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis, are removed from the sample


The fact that removing the military colleges results in a 2.5% increase in the ratio is fascinating.
This is the more relevant one....


"I could not find a single Republican with an exclusive appointment to fields like gender studies, Africana studies, and peace studies," it stated.

The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation. Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.
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May 7 2018, 11:29 AM
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May 7 2018, 11:16 AM
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May 7 2018, 10:55 AM
Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
I don't wholly disagree but then there is this nugget from the article.

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The ratio is 12.7:1 when two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis, are removed from the sample


The fact that removing the military colleges results in a 2.5% increase in the ratio is fascinating.
This is the more relevant one....


"I could not find a single Republican with an exclusive appointment to fields like gender studies, Africana studies, and peace studies," it stated.

The political registration in most of the remaining 61 percent, with a few important exceptions, is slightly more than zero percent but nevertheless absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation. Thus, 78.2 percent of the academic departments in my sample have either zero Republicans, or so few as to make no difference.
Are there Republicans out there wiling to teach a gender studies course that actually follows a set curricular? Republicans are pretty well known for being against the very idea of gender studies, so it's not really a mystery why they aren't widely represented as teachers thereof.
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May 7 2018, 10:55 AM
Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
There are at least a couple of things that would skew the numbers.

Individuals with post-grad degrees are twice as likely to identify as Democrats, than Republicans.

People in urban areas are more likely Democrats as well, and there aren't many colleges in rural areas.

I would never have guessed a 10:1 ratio though.

The chart below is from the study. It's surprising that professors in the study field of religion are 70 times more likely Democratic.

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I've actually sat on search committees hiring college faculty. There is one BIG item on those CVs: publications. Also important are public lectures and personal recommendations about citizenship in the department. I've never heard political affiliation even discussed. Classroom teaching skills are sometimes mentioned in passing, but rarely reach the importance level of working with graduate students.

Socially speaking, college departments are fairly intense little communes, especially for non-tenured members. In distinctly conservative institutions the faculty is politically homogeneous -- as much as college profs can be anyway-- and no liberals want to apply. The same is true on liberal campuses and there are a lot more of them.
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May 7 2018, 03:25 PM
I've actually sat on search committees hiring college faculty. There is one BIG item on those CVs: publications. Also important are public lectures and personal recommendations about citizenship in the department. I've never heard political affiliation even discussed. Classroom teaching skills are sometimes mentioned in passing, but rarely reach the importance level of working with graduate students.

Socially speaking, college departments are fairly intense little communes, especially for non-tenured members. In distinctly conservative institutions the faculty is politically homogeneous -- as much as college profs can be anyway-- and no liberals want to apply. The same is true on liberal campuses and there are a lot more of them.
I would argue that liberals are more likely to see value in teaching that goes beyond the dollar value of compensation and benefits. As a result, teachers all across the spectrum tend more towards liberal than conservative.
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Teaching is a profession that requires little in the way of results. College professors are even worse, they see it as a forum and an audience to preach their own brand of personal nonsense. Teaching used to be about subject matter, it appears to be moving more towards social engineering and indoctrination. It's a natural fit for liberals although I see no reason the term "liberal" is still used, they are far from open minded and tolerant.
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See why US students are falling bebind S. Korea and Japan?
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May 7 2018, 10:55 AM
Are there a lot of out of work conservative college Professors out there? Because my perception is that conservative s would far rather get jobs on Wall Street or Main Street, than to teach in the ivory tower of a college.
Because my son recently graduated from a top 14 law school with a graduate degree I wondered if this statistic was consistent within his school. There are no Phd law professors at his school however. Therefore 0% are neither left or right. Yet Law professors, too, are quite likely to lean left, a study that matched those in earlier studies found. Although it had a hard time finding law professors at the top 14 law schools who had contributed more to Republican candidates than to Democrats. More interesting is that there are more conservative judges than liberal judges.

There may be reasons besides politics for the over representation of conservatives in the courts, at least as compared with the pool of lawyers. Judges do tend to be older than the average lawyer, and older lawyers are more conservative than younger ones. Even so, the study found, judges are more conservative than other lawyers their age.
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May 7 2018, 03:45 PM
Teaching is a profession that requires little in the way of results. College professors are even worse, they see it as a forum and an audience to preach their own brand of personal nonsense. Teaching used to be about subject matter, it appears to be moving more towards social engineering and indoctrination. It's a natural fit for liberals although I see no reason the term "liberal" is still used, they are far from open minded and tolerant.
I wonder how much direct experience with modern college teaching you have. Every course is surveyed and student ratings are taken very seriously by department heads and the deans. Undergraduate courses today have to be highly theatrical multi-media performances rather like Bibi Netanyahu's recent show about Iran. You have to be damn good at this and to have lots and lots of office hours popular with students if you want to get your teaching contract renewed. If you want tenure, publish a book with a prestige college press. Better yet, publish two books. Even better -- get on TV as a talking head or in a documentary in your field.

There is a range of college faculties. I know best the Ivy League and our more prestigious New England state universities. There are some AA and AAA league colleges happy to take anyone with a Ph.D. from a prestige institution, but I can tell you that nobody gets in easy.
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May 7 2018, 04:53 PM
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May 7 2018, 03:45 PM
Teaching is a profession that requires little in the way of results. College professors are even worse, they see it as a forum and an audience to preach their own brand of personal nonsense. Teaching used to be about subject matter, it appears to be moving more towards social engineering and indoctrination. It's a natural fit for liberals although I see no reason the term "liberal" is still used, they are far from open minded and tolerant.
I wonder how much direct experience with modern college teaching you have. Every course is surveyed and student ratings are taken very seriously by department heads and the deans. Undergraduate courses today have to be highly theatrical multi-media performances rather like Bibi Netanyahu's recent show about Iran. You have to be damn good at this and to have lots and lots of office hours popular with students if you want to get your teaching contract renewed. If you want tenure, publish a book with a prestige college press. Better yet, publish two books. Even better -- get on TV as a talking head or in a documentary in your field.

There is a range of college faculties. I know best the Ivy League and our more prestigious New England state universities. There are some AA and AAA league colleges happy to take anyone with a Ph.D. from a prestige institution, but I can tell you that nobody gets in easy.
So says the self avowed Marxist,,,,

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Hey, if the conservatives posting on this thread want to give up their current careers and go into teaching, by all means go right ahead.
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May 7 2018, 05:07 PM
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May 7 2018, 03:45 PM
Teaching is a profession that requires little in the way of results. College professors are even worse, they see it as a forum and an audience to preach their own brand of personal nonsense. Teaching used to be about subject matter, it appears to be moving more towards social engineering and indoctrination. It's a natural fit for liberals although I see no reason the term "liberal" is still used, they are far from open minded and tolerant.
I wonder how much direct experience with modern college teaching you have. Every course is surveyed and student ratings are taken very seriously by department heads and the deans. Undergraduate courses today have to be highly theatrical multi-media performances rather like Bibi Netanyahu's recent show about Iran. You have to be damn good at this and to have lots and lots of office hours popular with students if you want to get your teaching contract renewed. If you want tenure, publish a book with a prestige college press. Better yet, publish two books. Even better -- get on TV as a talking head or in a documentary in your field.

There is a range of college faculties. I know best the Ivy League and our more prestigious New England state universities. There are some AA and AAA league colleges happy to take anyone with a Ph.D. from a prestige institution, but I can tell you that nobody gets in easy.
So says the self avowed Marxist,,,,

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There is nothing in my post ^^^ that relates to Marxism. You drag this in as a way of attacking or insulting but it only reveals that you know nothing about the writings of Karl Marx or the place of Marxist philosophy in intellectual culture today. You are ignorant and discourteous. Some Marxists would immediately begin to think about this in terms of class consciousness. I just think you enjoy being a jerk.
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