bob44044 wrote:
In 1989-1990, when HERI first fielded this survey, 42% of faculty identified as being on the left, 40% were moderate, and another 18% were on the right. This is not a normal curve – it is a clear lean to the left. Almost three decades later in 2016-2017, Higher Education Research Institute found that 60% of the faculty identified as either far left or liberal compared to just 12% being conservative.
In the fall of 1989, 26% of Americans were on the liberal side of the spectrum, 42% were moderate, and the remaining 29% described themselves as conservative. Three decades later, the numbers do not look all that different. Thirty one percent of Americans state that they are conservative or very conservative, 43% are moderate, and the 24% are liberal or very liberal.
When it comes to college and university administrators, whose ranks have grown dramatically over the past two decades, there is unfortunately not much research to draw on. The best picture we have comes from a 2017 survey of a nationally representative sample of roughly 900 “student-facing” administrators. He found that liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12:1. Only 6% of campus administrators identified as conservative to some degree, while 71% classified themselves as liberal or very liberal.
The New York Times wrote in 2016, “It appears that a fairly liberal student body is being taught by a very liberal professoriate — and socialized by an incredibly liberal group of administrators.” Taken together the data clearly illustrates that liberals are overrepresented in the faculty and the administrators.
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Your desire seems to be to accept results that favor your outlook. Numbers are just numbers. One can skew them all over the Cosmos to their liking. But it does not address the issue.
One has to have a very liberal mind to appreciate new concepts. That is the learning process. As for the "conservative" mind, it means "not to *jump* to conclusions".
It may surprise you that "liberal" and "conservative" are relative terms. And they are used to mean all sort of things across the spectrum.
There is a difference between "conservative" and "constipated".
Our discourse is at its end.