We mentioned the report in a previous quick take. Professor Turley reacts below.
From his website:
Study: Yale No Longer Has a Single Republican Professor Across 27 DepartmentsYale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans across all Yale departments.In comparison, roughly 83% of faculty are registered Democrats or primarily support Democratic candidates.The Buckley Institute’s report looked at Yale’s undergraduate departments, as well as its School of Management and Law School.The report is hardly surprising. In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss these arguments to justify the current levels of intolerance and orthodoxy in higher education.As we have discussed for years, universities have been effectively cleansing their ranks of Republicans and conservatives.Many departments no longer have a single Republican faculty member in this academic echochamber.A Georgetown study found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters found in the new poll.There is little evidence that faculty members are interested in changing this culture or creating greater diversity at schools. In places like North Carolina State University, a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.Not long ago, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on whether Harvard protects free speech and intellectual diversity.Kennedy rejected the notion that the elite school should strive to “look more like America.”It is not just that schools like Harvard “do not look like America,” it does not even look like liberal Massachusetts, which is almost 30 percent Republican.The Harvard Crimson has documented how the school’s departments have virtually eliminated Republicans. In one study of multiple departments last year, they found that more than 75 percent of the faculty self-identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
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