Conservatives in Higher Education Have Different Ideas About Improving Ideological Diversity
“close to impossible for anyone openly conservative or even moderate to get hired in the Humanities and Social Sciences, a problem increasingly affecting STEM.”
This issue is one of the most important in higher education. The lack of balance is driving so many problems. Professor Jacobson is quoted in this.
From National Review:
Conservative Scholars Disagree on How to Increase Ideological Diversity at Universities
Harvard President Alan Garber recently admitted that the university has a lack of “viewpoint diversity” on its campus, but Harvard isn’t alone: Colleges nationwide have overwhelmingly progressive faculties and show little willingness to change.
However, the Trump administration has put pressure on higher education to get its act together. As some university administrators and state legislators search for strategies to decrease ideological hegemony on college campuses, National Review spoke with right-of-center scholars who have faced hostile academic environments about how to make a difference.
Universities across the country have overwhelming ideological disparities. At Yale University, 97 percent of faculty political donations go to Democrats or progressive organizations. The breakdown is similar at Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and many other schools. Nationwide, more than 90 percent of donations from the education industry go to left-wing candidates or causes.
Cornell law professor and EqualProtect.org founder William A. Jacobson said it is “close to impossible for anyone openly conservative or even moderate to get hired in the Humanities and Social Sciences, a problem increasingly affecting STEM.” He attributed this to the shared governance model, which allows academic departments to have high influence in hiring and other decisions.
Samuel Goldman, an associate professor at George Washington University, says some left-leaning faculty members are open to ideological diversity but would consider a “centrist Democrat” to be conservative. “I don’t see much enthusiasm for hiring or even hearing views that reflect the opinions of the other 50% [of] Americans,” he said.
While conservative scholars agree that academia needs reform, they offer different solutions. Some noted that bringing in conservative speakers or establishing visiting positions are good first steps, but they are not enough to make a long-term difference. Instead, structural change must happen.
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lefty runs the money
lefty runs the msm
the schools
so when they say american patriots are hitler/youth
and they are teaching the children that
thats what hamass and all the rest teach their kids about israel
its what they still teach poc about whites in america
we keep funding our own demise
thatttttt is sick!!
Hmmmmm have they considered fire bombing the schools?
That is essentially what the problem is in Portland. People flock here because they can live out their victimhood in comfortable surroundings. And if you choose to not be a victim, then you are a perpetrator. Being a victim is also trending, so now you see these protests full of old white people who want to belong to the victim crowd, lest they get seggregated into the perpetrator crowd (since it seems being born white makes you a perpetrator). The victims also get incensed when I tell them that a I have better things going on other than persectuing them constantly during my waking hours.
Watching bodycams vids on youtube really exposes one to how programmed certain populations are these days. In one, the mom is screaming “stop shooting, he doesn’t have a gun” while two officers are engaged in a back and forth gunfight with the perpetrator.
And yesterday, a bicyclist rode across the light rail tracks while the gates were down and was run over by the train. The headlines of course reflected “MAX train hits and kills cyclist” as if the train were at fault. I guess we can’t blame a victim even when it was obvious that they were the source of their own stupidity.
Not only is it difficult for someone with moderate to conservative political views to get hired for a faculty position, it is often difficult for students who express moderate to conservative political views in class to get graded fairly.