Although the timing was coincidental, it is interesting that about the time the Vietnam-style anti-war rallies broke out recently on college campuses, a report from a study on the lack of political diversity among college professors came out in the American Legion magazine. You know, lack of political diversity simply means a lot more college professors lean liberal than conservative, leaving students to get a strong left-leaning impression of life. The study was from American Enterprise, with help from the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
Let me pull some things at random from the article" The State University of New York has 20 professors in political science; all are registered members of the party of the left. Brown has 17 in its history department; all are registered Democrats. The University of Colorado at Boulder History Department has 28 registered on the left, and only one registered on the right. The same school has 14 liberals and no conservatives among journalism professors. The same pattern holds true, the _report states at Harvard, Davidson, Penn State, Maryland, Stanford, UCLA and many others. Another study of Ivy League professors showed 84 percent voted for Al Gore, 9 percent for George W. Bush, and 6 percent for Ralph Nader.
The point being made by this study is simple: since the 1960's a lot of students have not had the benefit of a diversity of political learning. They have not _received a balanced presentation of liberal vs. conservative thought. Could that be one clue about why we saw anti-war rallies break out on college campuses recently, and why the tone was so stridently anti-Bush?
This is Gordon Sawyer and may the wind always be at your back.
Tuesday
August 5th, 2025
4:50AM
