Walter Williams: Political Bias and Anti-Americanism on College Campuses

[rangerrebew]

Political Bias and Anti-Americanism on College Campuses
By Walter E. Williams | February 20, 2020 4:20 PM EST

A 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.

 
Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/walter-e-williams/2020/02/20/political-bias-and-anti-americanism-college-campuses

[Fishrrman]

The only way to "correct" the problem with higher education may be to shut it down -- all-but completely -- and begin rebuilding "from scratch".

Abolish tenure.
Remove the leftist/communists and BLACKLIST THEM from ever teaching again (even if this means removing 90% of the faculty).
Require loyalty oaths from both administrators and professors.
END government-backed student loans (which will crash tuition prices).
Require that all constitutional protections and rights extend to students on campus.

That's a start...

[Free Vulcan]

The Fed and StateGovs can fix alot of this real easy - STOP funding majors and departments that have no real world application.

Let the donors fund those if they really believe in their purpose.

Alot of these commie profs hide in these do-nothing areas of academia to rant, indoctrinate, and undermine everything not Stalinist.

Stop writing the check and alot of that goes away.