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In an ongoing effort to emphasize the huge liberal bias on today’s college campuses, the Marquette University College Republicans have put up a visual representation of recent statistics regarding the ratio of liberal to conservative college professors. This Academic Diversity Display (as it was registered with OSD), is set up between the Raynor and Memorial libraries on Wisconsin Avenue.
The display consists of 60 blue sheets of paper on stakes with a white apple shape on them to represent 60 liberal professors and 2 red sheets to represent the 2 conservative professors. It also includes a larger sign that cites the study of 1678 professors used for the professor ratio (60:2 or 30:1). The study states that:
“Democrats outnumber Republicans 30 to 1 at younger professor levels ‚Äì assistant and associate.”
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The 30:1 ratio also applies to anthropology departments well other departments have other ratios, these statistics provide a stark picture of the political environment on campus.
The display also includes a sign that states “Think for yourself” that is meant to encourage students not to fall victim to the political views their professors often include in their daily lectures.
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Good work on the display guys! I can just imagine how angry those professors would be… I remember from the many events we’ve hosted up here. As Ron Brown once quoted 2 years ago at the State Convention at Stout “Universities will always be the last bastion of liberal thought.”
Most “normal” thinking people get real jobs however there are the select few, the 1 out of 30, that take that adventure and call themselves Republican. I’m fortunate to have so many of those professors here at Stout. Thank God!
Awareness is good. What were the apples for?
Brandon,
Interesting display. I would be interested to know the break-down of Marquette’s Political Science and Economics departments. Maybe there could be a joint effort in the works.
I am fairly certain that your post is incorrect when it says that they recieved responses from 1678 universities. You probably meant 1678 different professors. See you in class tomorrow.
Zach Corey
Zach-
Correction made.
Thank you,
Brandon Henak
Brandon,
Beautiful idea. Cheers to everyone who put this together.
BC
Have you ever heard this quip? Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, consult.
Maybe the reason lack of diversity is actually market driven. The liberals are driven out of the market.
I’ve heard that a lot of it stems from the campus atmosphere in the late 60s. The culture in higher education was geared heavily towards opposition to the war, and it’s rational that the people who were best adapted to this environment went on to teach. Hence, we have an excess of former hippies in academia.
As long as the bias doesn’t become so pervasive that conservative students are silenced and all moderate/undecided students are driven left, the problem will correct itself in time.
As your display shows, however, we may have already reached that point. What were the apples for?
The One True Church of Liberalism is alive,but I’d guess the ones at MU must really be hissing like hell over your ‘diversity’ thingy. Keep it up!
[...] –Note and object to one-sided reading lists, one-sided speakers programs, and lopsided funding of student organizations Note and object to the absence of diversity among faculty in a particular department, in class curricula, and in classes offered [in context, this means intellectual diversity, and not race, gender or sexual orientation] [I loved the Academic Diversity display] [...]
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