The NYT has admitted today that our nations Universities are crawling with moonbats and have infected the whole graduate system as evidenced by two new studies.
One of the studies, a national survey of more than 1,000 academics, shows that Democratic professors outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That ratio is more than twice as lopsided as it was three decades ago, and it seems quite likely to keep increasing, because the younger faculty members are more consistently Democratic than the ones nearing retirement, said Daniel Klein, an associate professor of economics at Santa Clara University and a co-author of the study.
In a separate study of voter registration records, Professor Klein found a nine-to-one ratio of Democrats to Republicans on the faculties of Berkeley and Stanford. That study, which included professors from the hard sciences, engineering and professional schools as well as the humanities and social sciences, also found the ratio especially lopsided among the younger professors of assistant or associate rank: 183 Democrats versus 6 Republicans.
Apparently not all is lost tho, so don’t fret. Some open minded students have began conservative newspapers like “The California Patriot” from the University of California and made a impact starting groups such as The Berkeley Republicans which now has 135 chapters.
David Horowitz (the loony lefty who has morphed into a conservative, weird stuff) has started an organization called Students for Academic Freedom
“Our goal is not to have the government dictate who’s hired but to take politics out of the hiring process and the classroom,” said Mr. Horowitz, who called the new studies the most compelling evidence yet of hiring bias. “Right now, conservative students are discouraged from pursuing scholarly careers, because they see very clearly that their professors consider Republicans to be the enemy.”
Some non-Democrats prefer to attribute the imbalance to the structure of academia, which allows hiring decisions and research agendas to be determined by small, independent groups of scholars. These fiefs, the critics say, suffer from a problem described in The Federalist Papers: an autonomous “small republic” is prone to be dominated by a cohesive faction that uses majority voting to “outnumber and oppress the rest,” in Madison’s words.
“Our colleges have become less marketplaces of ideas than churches in which you have to be a true believer to get a seat in the pews,” said Stephen H. Balch, a Republican and the president of the National Association of Scholars. “We’ve drifted to a secular version of 19th-century denominational colleges, in which the university’s mission is to crusade against sin and make the country a morally better place.”
Martin Trow, an emeritus professor of public policy at Berkeley who was chairman of the faculty senate and director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, said that professors tried not to discriminate in hiring based on politics, but that their perspective could be warped because so many colleagues shared their ideology.
“Their view comes to be seen not as a political preference but what decent, intelligent human beings believe,” said Dr. Trow, who calls himself a conservative. “Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky. So if a committee is trying to decide between three well-qualified candidates, it may exclude the conservative because he seems like someone who has poor judgment.”
My daughter is 16 and will be going to college soon, I find myself worrying more and more about the leftist indoctrination that these professors give, some who actually punish students if their view is different then their own. I know my daughter is intelligent and will weed through the propaganda but I still worry for her.
As Tammy Bruce has said many times, if your a leftist you have to belong to the group…no individualism, everything American is bad but we will protect you. If your a conservative we embrace individualism and hard work. You don’t get a free ride, you have to work hard for your success but that’s what makes America great.
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