Less Than Six Percent of Profs at Maine Colleges Are Registered Republicans
“Of the 2,222 college professors and lecturers investigated, registered Democrats amounted to 54.63 percent, followed by those not registered to vote (20.29 percent) and unaffiliated voters (16.28 percent).”
There is no political balance in higher education. This has been a problem for years.
Campus Reform reports:
Less than 6 percent of profs at Maine colleges are registered Republicans: report
A recent report notes the lack of conservative professors in the higher education system of Maine.
Registered Republicans only make up 5.49 percent of college professors in Maine, according to new analysis published by the Maine Wire on Oct. 2.
Of the 2,222 college professors and lecturers investigated, registered Democrats amounted to 54.63 percent, followed by those not registered to vote (20.29 percent) and unaffiliated voters (16.28 percent).
The analysis included campuses in the University of Maine system, as well as Bowdoin College, Colby College, Bates College, Husson University, St. Joseph’s College, and Thomas College.
Each of the 15 institutions investigated during the analysis contained a significantly larger percentage of registered Democrats than registered Republicans. For instance, registered Democrats accounted for 80 percent of the staff at the University of Maine at Machias.
The University of Maine at Presque Isle had the largest percentage of registered Republicans, making up just 29.41 percent of its professors. On the other hand, the University of Maine School of Law does not include any registered Republicans, with 68.18 percent of professors being registered Democrats.
Despite many of these universities being publicly funded, the political affiliations of professors and lecturers do not reflect the political affiliations of registered Maine voters. As of January 2024, the percentages of registered Republican, Democrat, and unenrolled voters were split more closely: Democrats made up 36.2 percent, followed by Republicans at 29.5 percent and unenrolled voters at 28.8 percent.
Bowdoin College, which employs only 1.51 percent registered Republicans on its teaching staff according to the analysis, is offering courses this semester like “Black Heat, Black Cool: Theorizing Blackness” and “Queering International Relations,” which includes topics such as “gender and colonial legacies, global feminisms, imperialism and LGBTQ activism, freedom and agency from a comparative perspective, intersectionality, and queer of color critique.”
A Bowdoin spokesperson told Campus Reform that the school “does not take political affiliations and views into account when hiring professors and lecturers.”
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An honest “efficiency review” of American colleges would result in
(1) most professors being laid off
(2) most classes replaced with prerecorded video — periodically updated
(3) frequent quizzes, to make sure that learning is being done
Our higher education system has grown stale and rancid; and needs updating.
Have any of these faculty ever had a public review of their accomplishments?
Most all of them are at least partially supported by the citizenry.
Seems to me we have a right to know wtf they’re accomplishing up there in Maine— aside from free access to university athletic facilities.
Every 2 or 3 years, these faculty members ought to have their updated curricula vitae made available to the public. Rather like MLB players and teams have to do this every day.
Then we can evaluate for ourselves whether the Democrats are as accomplished as the Republicans, etc., etc.
Btw — When was the last time you heard about a major research achievement, a major discovery of new knowledge, that came out of a Maine college or university? Wouldn’t it be helpful if theyall had to make their accomplishments public from time to time?
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