[ April 19, 2024 ]
Testimony from inside the belly of the beast.
I’ve been a professor for decades. Today’s’institutions of higher learning’ pose threats on several fronts to the well-being of the nation
By Walter Williams, JWR, Feb. 19, 2020
Story continues below advertisementA recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation.
The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in “Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.”
Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states. For party registration, they found a Democratic to Republican (D:R) ratio of 8.5:1, which varied by rank of institution and region. For donations to political candidates (using the Federal Election Commission database), they found a D:R ratio of 95:1, with only 22 Republican donors, compared with 2,081 Democratic donors.
Several consistent findings have emerged from Langbert and Stevens’ study. The ratio of faculty who identify as or are registered as Democratic versus Republican almost always favors the Democratic Party. Democratic professors outnumber their Republican counterparts most in the humanities and social sciences, compared with the natural sciences and engineering.
The ratio is 42:1 in anthropology, 27:1 in sociology and 27:1 in English. In the social sciences, Democratic registered faculty outnumber their Republican counterparts the least in economics 3:1. The partisan political slant is most extreme at the most highly rated institutions.
The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many harmful effects. Let’s look at a few.
At University of California, Davis, last month, a mathematics professor faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for faculty “diversity statements.”
University of California, San Diego, requires job applicants to admit to the “barriers” preventing women and minorities from full participation in campus life.
At American University, a history professor recently wrote a book in which he advocates repealing the Second Amendment.
A Rutgers University professor said, “Watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the over-representation of whiteness.”
University of California, Berkeley, professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich chimed in to say: “Think about this: Iowa is 90.7% white. Iowa is now the only state with a lifetime voting ban for people with a felony conviction. Black people make up 4% of Iowa’s population but 26% of the prison population. How is this representative of our electorate?”
A Williams College professor said he would advocate for social justice to be included in math textbooks.
Students at Wayne State University no longer have to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may soon be required to take a diversity course.
Then there’s a question about loyalty to our nation. Charles Lieber, former chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, was arrested earlier this year on accusations that he made a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about work he did for a program run by the Chinese government that seeks to lure American talent to China. He was paid $50,000 a month and up to $158,000 in living expenses for his work, which involved cultivating young teachers and students, according to court documents.
According to the Department of Justice, Lieber helped China “cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.”
It’s not just Harvard professors.
Newly found court records reveal that Emory University neuroscientist Li Xiao-Jiang was fired in late 2019 after being charged with lying about his own ties to China.
Li was part of the same Chinese program as Lieber. A jury found a University of California, Los Angeles, professor guilty of exporting stolen U.S. military technology to China. Newsweek reported that he was convicted June 26 on 18 federal charges.
Meanwhile, NBC reported that federal prosecutors say that University of Texas professor Bo Mao attempted to steal U.S. technology by using his position as a professor to obtain access to protected circuitry and then handing it over to the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei.
The true tragedy is that so many Americans are blind to the fact that today’s colleges and universities pose a threat on several fronts to the well-being of our nation.
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23 Comments4 years agoAll true!
4 years agoThe education system must be reformed no doubt with tools such as Wikiislam.net, but that won’t happen under a government that sneakingly arms Muhammadist tyrannies that enslave castrated Africans & declares Saudi Arabia would love the American people.
While I want a global government with healthy values & English (US) to protect national sovereignty long term, the white wash house wants strong sovereign nations without global government which will destroy these nation in the long run.
Seperated sovereign nations are also no threat to the Muhammadist tyrannies arming immoral white wash house.
It’s better to work together, for national sovereignty, health, global English (US), ecology, healthy performance diet, cultivation of ecological best quality basics & base for creatives & automization of automizable work.4 years agoThe word, “diversity”, is just an excuse to create harm to someone else who is not like you.
4 years agoThese days if I had to go to college I’d probably go to Oral Roberts U. because I’m sick of f’ing supercilious, sanctimonious, atheist professors jamming their “facts” and dogma down my maw. I really resent I’m being taxed to support these atheist indoctrination camps aka. institutions of higher learning.
4 years agoReply to MuhamMUDTheFakeProphetLittle Petey BootyCakes went to Oral Roberts U and was greatly disappointed to find out the “Oral Roberts” was an actual university, and NOT a man named Robert looking for “oral”…..
4 years agoReply to MuhamMUDTheFakeProphetHis male professors all stated that he EXCELLED in oral. Exams.
4 years agoThis has been stated long ago in the Port Huron Statement”, a manifesto of sorts authored primarily by that loser who was married to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda.
In it, they state that their two primary goals are to seize control of what they term “the loci of power”, namely colleges and universities and the Democrat party.
Evidently the name “Democrat” in the US is taking on the same context as it has in North Korea, as in “Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea”.
4 years agoIt sounds eerily like Nazi Germany
4 years agoThey hate capitalism, so let’s cancel ALL student loans ASAP and insist that they work for free from now on! Let them eat hemlock until they puke, then force feed them hemlock milkshakes!
4 years agoReply to PhilipI’d like to see Socrates’ punishment visited on most all of the professors in universities of “higher learning”. Let them peddle their anti-American, Communist, muslum loving garbage from some islamic sh!tehole or totalitarian Communist gulag.
4 years agoIts not just their Leftist neo-Marxist political and social positions, its also their professional competency to be educators Anyone who advocates Marxism has adopted a belief system without any supporting empirical I could continue with a long list including climate change, diversity, Islam, etc., but the solution is to clean the universities out of these incompetents and staff them with people who are true educators and not Leftist hacks.
4 years agoReply to John AcordA men bro get rid of the subversive slim libtards and get some real Profs that are real educators that we could be proud of instead of this garbage we have now ! .
4 years agoReply to John AcordA men bro get rid of the subversive slim libtards and get some real Profs that are real educators that we could be proud of instead of this garbage we have now ! .
4 years agoSupport Hillsdale College – they take NO MONEY from the Gov’ They adhere to a strict Constitutional based curriculum – They also publish a great free monthly newsletter – Iprimus – featuring Conservative commentary..
4 years agoAmerica, the Western Civilization is committing suicide. We should never have allowed the islamics and communists to take control of the childrens education. They started early and now the corrupted minds are in our government. The black fungus of the vile obama is covering our country. We do not have the stomach to eradicate the islamic scourge.
A vote for a democrat is a vote to put America under islamic slavery!4 years agoAnd yet the most affluent in America, Left & Right continue to send their kids to these universities and provide financial support including endowments.
For the wealthiest, values and political ideology are negotiable. What matters is staying in power and insulating themselves from actual contact with the uncultured masses. Thats’s why they don’t care what ideological wormhole these universities go down even if its antithetical to their own.
Universities have become the door to the social club house that separates the elites from the rest of America. When their children return from school, they’ve been properly tenderized and molded into obedient lumps that gladly spew leftist propaganda about the racial inequities of the system while they buy homes and apartments in affluent urban white-only ghettos, safe from the dangers of black & hispanic no-go zones.
It should surprise no one that this system has produced Bloomberg, a self-serving political and ideological chameleon.
4 years agoReply to WorsethanitlooksAmen. I think about all the Americans who founded these universities and all of the endowments made by those thinking they were helping the nation improve. It’s sickening to see it was all for naught.
4 years agoTraitors teaching young skulls full of mush to be traitors. Sums it up nicely.
4 years agoTHE ABUSE OF JEWISH AND RIGHTIST STUDENTS AND FACULTY ON LEFTIST CONTROLLED CAMPUSES IS A REAL CONCERN! WE RIGHTISTS NEED TO USE FEDERAL FUNDS AS A “TRUMP” CARD ON THESE UNIVERSITIES. ALSO, IT SHOULD BE MANDATORY THAT ROTC UNITS BE ON ALL CAMPUSES THAT RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS AND I THINK THAT ROTC STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO CARRY FIREARMS ON FEDERALLY FUNDED CAMPUSES TO PREVENT TERRORIST INCIDENTS! ROTC STUDENTS SHOULD BE EXPOSED TO RIGHTIST, REPUBLICAN PHILOSOPHY AS PART OF DIVERSITY! WATCH THE LEFTIST PROFESSORS WHEN THESE ARMED ROTC REPUBLICAN STUDENTS START TO COMPLAIN AGAINST THEM FOR THEIR SMACK! HEY! PERHAPS THEY WON’T COME BACK!
