Is this really news?

[chequita guevara]

They're handicapped by their morals.

[Odin]

Conservatives tend to go into bussiness after college, I think that is the main reason, I also think the extent of the "bias" is overblown, at least in my university. A few wackos make the bias look larger than it actually is. I have no problem with conservative professors, what I don't like is that the Right using the issue to scilence their opponents in acedamia.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Ramo
Conservatives are greedy capitalists, while liberals place less of a priority on making money, so the smarter conservatives go off to industry, leaving the dumb conservatives to compete with smart liberals in academia.

professors are very well paid. If these liberals were truelly compassionate, they would be teachers.

[DanS]

professors are very well paid.

[Dis]

they make over $100,000 a year. That's good money in my book.

[DanS]

Over $100,000 a year? That's news to me.

I would bet you that the ultra-leftwing English Literature profs do not make anything near $100,000.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Ramo
Conservatives are greedy capitalists, while liberals place less of a priority on making money, so the smarter conservatives go off to industry, leaving the dumb conservatives to compete with smart liberals in academia.

People go where they have natural inclination. It just so happens that those that are pompous overblown self agrandizing twits dominate the liberal arts teaching professions.

Those who have a strength in dealing with real world situations go to the private sector.

[Agathon]

I would bet you that the ultra-leftwing English Literature profs do not make anything near $100,000.

If you've been around for a while, you probably make that.

People don't do it for the money, in fact there are people who'd do it for less than they currently get.

Then again, even 50,000 a year would be like a gold mine to me. I've existed on less than 20,000 a year since I left school.

[GePap]

ON a question asked before, MIlitary men, specially officers, are heavily, VERY heavily republican, at least accoridng to the last survey of military men I saw. Not something that surprises me in a volunteer military, and something liberals don't really give a **** about.

As for why are most professors liberals- does it really take much of a brain? Most professors today grew up in the 60's and before, when liberal thought was in acendency. They fought against professors who were deeply conservative.

Academia is a dragging indicator.

We will see more "conservative" professors in the coming decades unless all these people decide not to become professors but whinny pundits complaing about academia in the future.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by GePap
As for why are most professors liberals- does it really take much of a brain? Most professors today grew up in the 60's and before, when liberal thought was in acendency. They fought against professors who were deeply conservative.

Academia is a dragging indicator.

We will see more "conservative" professors in the coming decades unless all these people decide not to become professors but whinny pundits complaing about academia in the future.

Agreed everything is cyclical and usually stems from a rebellion against the prevailing 'establishment' of the day.

[Drake Tungsten]

As for why are most professors liberals- does it really take much of a brain? Most professors today grew up in the 60's and before, when liberal thought was in acendency. They fought against professors who were deeply conservative.

Academia is a dragging indicator.

Agreed. This is also why the mainstream media is so overwhelmingly liberal.

[Agathon]

Except that you're all wrong.

The graduate students who will replace the professors as they retire are all liberal. Not 60s hippie liberal, but liberal nonetheless.

[Drake Tungsten]

I think you're right on that, Aggie. The one study showed that the up and coming professors are even more monolithicly liberal than the old guard is. Looks like the liberals have academia sewed up tight, for the forseeable future, anyway.

[Agathon]

Maybe it's because they're right, Drake?

I'll ask again, what specific points of view do you want expressed on campus?

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd like the views expressed on campus to be roughly similar to those expressed in society at large (although I wouldn't mind excluding some of the extremists from the left and the right). Isn't that what the push for diversity was supposed to bring us?