Harvard Faculty uniformly Democrat

And in other news, the sun rises in the east and water is wet. Recently, the Harvard Crimson did a story on which party the faculty supports. It came up at 96% in favor of the Democrat Party.

This isn’t a surprise to anyone who’s paid any attention to the antics of “Higher Education” in general and the Ivy League schools in particular. They’ve been bastions of socialism, communism and Progressivism for well over a century. However, the numbers caught a number of less informed people by surprise. Here are some of the details from Fox News:

Republicans running for president might as well skip any fundraisers at Ivy League universities like Harvard, where a new analysis shows 96 percent of faculty donations over the last three years went to Democrats. Academia in general, and the elite northeastern schools in particular, have long been seen as a bastion for left-wing professors. Nationally, about two-thirds of college professors say they are liberal and less than a tenth identify themselves as conservative, according to one study. The imbalance at Harvard, uncovered by the student newspaper Harvard Crimson surprised even Harvard administrators. “I am amazed at how high that number is,” Harvard Dean Michael D. Smith told the Crimson.

I like this part about the imbalance surprising the Harvard Administration. It never occurred to them that it’s impossible for a Republican or a conservative to get tenure in these “Bastions of free thinking.”

In the presidential race in 2012, every one of the eight universities in the Ivy League saw more than 90 percent of faculty donations go to Obama. Some say that shows a troubling lack of ideological diversity on campuses and could lead to students getting biased educations.

“It is a shame that our greatest universities have become ideologically monolithic,” Georgetown law professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz told FoxNews.com. “At many of these schools, including Georgetown Law School, most students will graduate without ever laying eyes on a single Republican professor.”

Yes, it is, isn’t it? There are many reasons for this, going back almost a century. We had Communists infiltrating the educational system from the 1920’s up until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and that had a major effect. Then there is the issue of tenure.

As I understand it, gaining tenure has a lot to do with popularity with other professors, and if they don’t like you, they can sink your career. Finally, there is the issue of reality. Most of these over-educated morons have never spent any time in the “Dreaded Private Sector” and have no clue how the world actually works.

One Harvard faculty member, who does not share his colleague’s politics, declined to even discuss the ideological dynamic on campus. “Sorry, but the smart thing for me to do about this kind of issue is not to comment!” he said.

Of course he won’t talk about it. He knows what will happen when his “Co-workers” find out that he isn’t a raving moonbat. Even as a tenured professor, and I suspect he isn’t, he would be ostracized and forced out.

Some professors say the disparity is nothing new and shouldn’t be a big concern.

“While this may narrow the range of political debate on campus, it doesn’t mean that students at these schools aren’t getting a first-rate education,” said Neil Gross, visiting professor of sociology at Princeton and author of “Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?” “American higher education needs reforming, but political imbalance is the least of its problems.”

Actually Professor Gross, it’s a significant problem. Conservatives and Progressive Liberals see the world differently. As one wag put it years ago, “Liberals/Progressives see the world as they want it to be. Conservatives see it as it actually is.”

Gross has done studies on the issue and found that ideology is self-reinforcing. “College teaching got a reputation as a liberal occupation early in the twentieth century for historical reasons, and that pulled even more liberals in, in a self-reinforcing process. Today relatively few conservative students aspire to become professors.”

The reason they don’t aspire to teaching is simple. They know they will be blocked from even getting into the field. Have you not seen how even conservative students are treated by university professors? Then we have the totalitarian mindset of many collage administrations.

Free speech advocates say that the result is campuses that often stifle free speech. “If someone gets in trouble on campus it is far more likely to be because of socially conservative views, and I have no doubt that is partly because of group think on campus,” Greg Lukianoff, a self-described liberal and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) told FoxNews.com.

We have seen conservative students threatened, attacked and in very rare cases expelled for their views. Today’s Ivy League schools are more reeducation camps then places of higher learning these days. All this article by the Harvard Crimson does, is confirm what most people already knew. Collage faculty are nothing more than ivory tower, out of touch moonbats.

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