Universities Without Ideological Diversity

Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

Liberals outnumber conservatives on university faculties:

The liberal-conservative ratio among faculty was roughly 2 to 1 in 1995. By 2004 that figure jumped to almost 3 to 1. While seemingly insignificant, that represents a 50% decline in conservative identifiers on campuses. After 2004, the ratio changed even more dramatically and by 2010, was close to 5 to 1 nationally.

What’s more surprising is how extreme the difference is in one part of the country, Tyler Cowen notes — New England:

For college and university faculty in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont — the liberal to conservative ratio is above 25 to 1!

Liberal-Conservative Ratio

Comments

  1. L. C. Rees says:

    Why is that surprising?

  2. Bill says:

    If this earlier article is right then you would expect college professors, whose IQs average 130, to be most attracted to various liberal ideas like multiculturalism, open borders, feminism, etc.

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