Conservative Professors Vastly Outnumbered on Campus
While we all know that academia is overwhelmingly liberal, this new report from the Daily Signal shows how bad it really is.
Liberal Professors Outnumber Conservative Faculty 5 to 1. Academics Explain Why This Matters
Professors in higher education have become notably more liberal during the past 25 years, according to a recent study, and academics predict that the trend isn’t likely to slow any time soon.
During the past quarter-century, academia has seen a nearly 20-percent jump in the number of professors who identify as liberal. That increase has created a lopsided ideological spread in higher education, with liberal professors now outpacing their conservative counterparts by a ratio of roughly 5 to 1.
In 2014, 60 percent of professors identified as “liberal” or “far left,” according to the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, as reported by The Washington Post’s “Wonkblog.”
Compare that with 1990 survey data, when only 42 percent said the same.
While academia has shifted dramatically to the left, professors on the right have dropped off.
The number of professors who identified as “conservative” and “far right” during the same time span fell by nearly 6 percent, while the number of “moderate” academics dropped by 13 percentage points.
Liberal Professors Outnumber Conservative Faculty 5 to 1. Academics Explain Why This Matters (The Daily Signal)
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All one has to do is to see which professions the libs choose in high numbers. They are mostly jobs protected from competition so the libs are more likely to get to keep those jobs. Nothing produces better dead wood than union membership and tenure.