"Nine out of ten college professors self-identify as Democrat or Green - Diversity surrenders"

::Subject header courtesy of Drew Curtis' @ Fark.com::

Liberal Groupthink Is Anti-Intellectual
By MARK BAUERLEIN (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

"More than nine out of 10 professors belonged to the Democratic or Green party, an imbalance that contradicted many liberal academics' protestations that diversity and pluralism abound in higher education."

Nothing new here, I guess. Just interesting to see it in print.

Read on:
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Perhaps.
I just hope that everyone that attends college in America is brave enough to think for themselves, based on their own beliefs. It would be a shame for professors to sway weak people based on their supposed authority. I remember that some tried, though most were preaching to the choir.

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BOY does this depend!! I've had teachers that were to the right of Attila the Hun. My sixth grade teacher taught us more anti-Communist rhetoric than anything useful.

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Like I said, ditch the economics department. :P

This is not that surprising. Speaking in stereotypes here, but conservative, at least in my neck of the woods, generally do not place as much emphasis on higher education, using the rationale that it encourages people to forget where they came from, to question their values, etc... I know because I came from a family and a religion that discaourages higher education

Freemasons vs. Rome and all of that.

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"liberal" being used in the term "liberal arts" has nothing to do with political thinking. It's dealing with liberal in terms of "expansion", "new", "revolutionary", "creative". And the fact that most professors are liberally minded isn't new or surprising. Or bad, really. It's related to the same reason why the majority of the media is liberally minded: It's proximity to metropolitan areas. Across the board, large cities in the US are overwhelmingly blue. That's where the major universities are AND where all of the news is broadcast from. Washington and NYC haven't been red in decades.
On a side note, Milton Friedman is a libertarian. This means that in terms of economic issues he's VERY conservative. But in terms of social issues, he's VERY liberal, moreso than even Democrats in some cases. So the term "conservative" that is thrown around nowadays just doesn't cover the spectrum. Sure, it makes lumping people into little categories harder. But hey, we're all big kids, we can deal with a little complication.

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Really? Why?

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Hmmm. I don't remember that when I studied him.
Regardless of his personal beliefs, no one has a clearer view of they way the government should interact with the economy than he does, IMO.
After all he DID win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Invisible Hand? Yeesh, I need to go reread him cuz I'm drawing a blank on that.
Good luck in the psych class.

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