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March 29, 2005

A Day of Shocks: University Faculty Overwhelmingly Liberal

Wow. I did not see this coming.

College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.
By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.

The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative.

"What's most striking is how few conservatives there are in any field," said Robert Lichter, a professor at George Mason University and a co-author of the study. "There was no field we studied in which there were more conservatives than liberals or more Republicans than Democrats. It's a very homogenous environment, not just in the places you'd expect to be dominated by liberals."

This jaw-dropping study also concluded, controversially, that 96% of all men enjoy barbecued ribs and/or oral sex and/or both simultaneously.

posted by Ace at 02:37 PM

Comments

I... I think I need to sit down....

Posted by: Cynical Nation on March 29, 2005 02:38 PM

I can't help but think we need some more conservative choices when it comes to where we can send our children. Good luck trying to infiltrate their bastion of "enlightenment." Liberals have taken Yale and Harvard and remade them in their own image... guess we need to start over?

Posted by: Paladin on March 29, 2005 02:44 PM

Ye gads, what next?

Thank goodness colleges and universities remain bastions of free speech and independent thought.

Posted by: WindRider95 on March 29, 2005 02:46 PM

Loose shit -- get that Easter Egg business out of there.

Anyway, what this story isn't mentioning is that those who don't ID as Democrats or Republicans are 90% doing so because they're too far left to be Dems.

Posted by: someone on March 29, 2005 02:48 PM

I have just one question, Ace:

What the heck do the OTHER 4% of men enjoy? Oral sex WITH their bbq'd ribs?!

Posted by: hgstern on March 29, 2005 02:55 PM

got it. You know how hard it is to blog and shave your back at the same time?

Trust me, it's a bitch-n-a-half.

Posted by: ace on March 29, 2005 02:55 PM

What the heck do the OTHER 4% of men enjoy? Oral sex WITH their bbq'd ribs?!

Well... I mean, it is kinda how one eats them anyway...

Don't judge me. Don't you dare judge me.

Posted by: ace on March 29, 2005 02:59 PM

Did you have to destroy all my illusions in the same day?!? Damn you, Internet, damn you!

Posted by: Andrea Harris on March 29, 2005 03:05 PM

I think its time for Rupert Murdoch to create Fox University.

Posted by: Eric on March 29, 2005 05:06 PM

That would be awesome, Eric.

Then when the team made the Final Four, all the alums could go on C.B.S. chanting "F.U.! F.U.!"

Posted by: Jack M. on March 29, 2005 05:19 PM

I did a study that found that of those professors who made political donations during the last election cycle, 96 percent gave Democratic.

It's worse than you think.

Posted by: Taylor on March 30, 2005 01:16 PM