Conservative professors in some disciplines are not only outnumbered on America’s college campuses, they are nearly extinct, said a panel of professors and education experts who discussed the lack of diverse ideas on campuses last week at an event sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
“There are about 6,000 sociologists in this country, and after looking for months, we found 12 conservative sociologists,” said Jon Shields, associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California.
Shields is the co-author of a recent book (Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University) about the lack of conservatives in academia that he wrote with Joshua Dunn, an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
Shields noted that in some of the other social sciences, “conservatives are so scarce that they’re badly outnumbered by Marxists.” The authors found that 18 percent of professors identify as Marxists, but only five percent call themselves conservatives.
“I don’t actually see that the guardians of higher education have done a particularly good job of what I see as living up to its ideals.” commented AEI Director of Education Policy Studies Frederick Hess.
The panel was moderated by Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at the National Review and a visiting fellow at AEI. During the discussion, the participants touched on the difficulty of finding professors who are openly conservative. ......To Read More....
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