WP'S Kurtz: RW Profs (of diversity hurts & subjective is OK)say "Liberals"

[papau]

dominated camplus faculties in 1999 - indeed Kurts quotes data that " self described" folks as to politics. Of course folks that remember the survey recall there was a moderate view permitted response - which is where nearly everyone was at. I wonder if Kurtz will ever provide a Web link to the article and data? But Kurtz is not into fact checking. He has an agenda to push.

But I like the premise - if not conservative, they are evil teachers? but Kurtz is not into fact checking. He has an agenda to push. Sort of requiring the faculty to take a "I am not a communist" pledge if they want school to get a "good" score. Perhaps GOP folks tend to graft and writing like Kurtz for the Washington Post, rather than teaching? Or do we need a quota system?

Indeed the twins who have been critized in the past for using subjective thoughts as if they were objective facts, now conclude that there might be bias against conservatives in hiring - as usual without any facts or ever statistics to back them up!

But Howie the whore is selling the RW agenda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8427-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_politics

College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 29, 2005; Page C01


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."

Religious services take a back seat for many faculty members, with 51 percent saying they rarely or never attend church or synagogue and 31 percent calling themselves regular churchgoers. On the gender front, 72 percent of the full-time faculty are male and 28 percent female.

The findings, by Lichter and fellow political science professors Stanley Rothman of Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto (famed for claiming that the greater the school's diversity, the less students were satisfied with their own educational experience - which Allen Barton in International Journal of Public Opinion 15, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 381-88 said their study may be overly subjective and posits a need for data relating to educational achievement and quality, as well as claiming that the alternatives to diversity have too high a cost), are based on a survey of 1,643 full-time faculty at 183 four-year schools. The researchers relied on 1999 data from the North American Academic Study Survey, the most recent comprehensive data available.

The study appears in the March issue of the Forum, an online political science journal. It was funded by the Randolph Foundation, a right-leaning group that has given grants to such conservative organizations as the Independent Women's Forum and Americans for Tax Reform.

Rothman sees the findings as evidence of "possible discrimination" against conservatives in hiring and promotion. Even after factoring in levels of achievement, as measured by published work and organization memberships, "the most likely conclusion" is that "being conservative counts against you," he said. "It doesn't surprise me, because I've observed it happening." The study, however, describes this finding as "preliminary."<snip>

[JDPriestly]

1. They should do a study of the heads of

big corporations. It's shocking how few liberals there are. Wonder why.

[papau]

2. So true - I was always the only liberal in the Board Room - and one

did not feel all that secure at Senior Staff meetings.

Better is my current semi-retirement as a backroom math/law/regs guy who has little staff and a downsixed mission to help the small business - as opposed to large business - owner type.

I see few liberals coming up the corporate ladder

[Hissyspit]

3. "College Faculties A Most INTELLIGENT And EDUCATED Lot"

This is all crap. Kurtz is a jerk.