Posted on 02/11/2017 8:09:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Multiple studies released by statisticians and psychologists have revealed evidence for potential professional and personal harm to academics and students expressing conservative political leanings in universities across America.
As the largely conservative "Greatest Generation" faded into retirement in the 1990s, "Baby Boomers" holding increasingly liberal worldviews came to dominate university faculty. Studies released by the Heterodox Academy, tasking themselves with studying the evolving hegemony of "progressives" in academia, have revealed a significant lack of diversity in political thought encompassing various universities and academic departments.
So dominant is leftist ideology that across university departments in nearly all states, an average ratio of 10:1 exists among faculty who identify as liberal versus conservative. When exploring the makeup of Ivy League institutions and universities in New England, results, such as the case with Brown University, were as high as 60:1 in favor of registered Democrats among professors.
Economic departments found best balance with a 4:5:1 ratio in favor of registered Republicans, but history departments skewed 33:5:1 for Democrats. A significant number of departments had no registered Republicans at all.
Other well respected universities include:
Boston University – 40:1
Johns Hopkins University – 35:1
Tufts – 32:1
Columbia – 30:1
Princeton – 30:1
Boston College – a moderate 22:1 ratio in favor of registered Democrats
Since assistant professors are more likely to be registered Democrats, as the generational transition moves forward, many more top positions in academia are filled by progressives who self-identify with their peers within a set of "sacred values." As the quest for tenure is allocated via "departmental majoritarianism," "excessive concurrence-seeking" produces a psychological "other" into which they box their conservative peers.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Well respected” will become a thing of the past as these institutions continue to manufacture libtards as a product.
Public K-12 is just as bad if not worse.
Eliminate all federal money, watch how fast their subsidized bubble bursts.
I saw a documentary about this - when asked why there are so few conservative professors on campus, liberal professors snickered that conservatives were “incurious” and “anti-intellectual” and they had the most narcissistic little smirks on their face when they said it. They are so sure they are 400% prettier, smarter, and holier than conservatives that it rises to the level of psychosis.
When I was teaching university economics, Milton Friedman was King of the Hill, so being conservative was a good thing. Today...not so much. I changed directions and was writing books in the CS field and ended up teaching at a Big Ten university. I was the only conservative on the CS faculty! Lots of lunches alone...
If this isn’t the definition of liberals tolerance...
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/
Nikita Khrushchev said, “Your children will be taught and you nor they will know that they are being taught.”
The communist bastards who were already here claimed that it was simply rhetoric. Others who believed him did nothing. They simply let it happen.
I believed him so that this data does not surprise me.
I thought diversity was our strength...
those numbers dont look very diverse!
I’m surprised that there actually is a “ratio”.
Nikita also said “We will Barry you”.
So much for the conservative well-mannered ideal of being tolerant—the liberal leftists are emphatically not.
those that can do.
those that cannot teach.
They do so until nobody can do anything at all.
Job well done by the Department of Education.
Conservatives are far too polite. We need to start raising hell.
>> liberal professors snickered
They’re professional predators
We didn’t need a study. The intimidation of independent thinkers at universities and the blacklisting of good professors started decades ago. This I know from experience. See my tagline which now must include college texts in both humanities and sciences.
“Conservatives are far too polite. We need to start raising hell.”
Agreed. This has been a major problem for decades. I thought Trump was giving us some momentum in that direction but true to our saner selves, after the election we went back to our jobs, our families, and our routines, thinking all would be well. The left is at war with us and we are hoping it will all blow over. Obviously, it won’t.
It’s like hoping muzzies will play nice and assimilate and stop wanting us all dead.
Trump has his work cut out for him, and he’s surrounded by enemies. His enemies are our enemies. Yes, we need to start raising hell.
This is obviously creating a tremendously unfair economic disadvantage for conservatives.
Did we wait too long for Revolution 2?
“Trump has his work cut out for him, and he’s surrounded by enemies. His enemies are our enemies. Yes, we need to start raising hell.”
It’s absolutely imperative that we show Trump that he has millions that support him. Strong and determined as he is he cannot take this onslaught all by himself.
And we cannot surrender the street and public places to the leftists.
There are some nationwide demonstrations planned in support of Trump. Please spread the word.
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