About half of all college departments have no Republican professors at all, according the the publication College Fix. It looked at 65 departments at seven universities and managed to find just 61 Republican professors, out of more than a thousand professors.
33 of the departments surveyed had no Republican professors at all — just over half of the departments surveyed. Over 667 professors were Democrats, judging from their party registration or primary voting record. The publication looked at Ohio State University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Georgia, Cornell University, University of Oklahoma and the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Six of the seven states in which those universities are located are Republican-leaning, while one, New York, is strongly Democratic-leaning. Yet, all universities had a strong Democratic tilt, even in the most Republican states. Of those professors who had a party affiliation, 92 percent of professors were Democrats and only 8 percent were Republican. So Democratic professors outnumber Republican professors 11 to 1.
“These results should be another wake-up call that higher education is severely biased and broken,” wrote Jennifer Kabbany, editor of The College Fix.
“The foxes are guarding the hen house. If parents, politicians and watchdogs wonder why students go into college as innocent and eager 18-year-olds and come out four years later as mouth-breathing progressive-socialist Democrats, look no further than the people teaching them what to think day in and day out at college.”
The College Fix looked not just at Democrats and Republicans, but also at other political affiliations, such as independent, libertarian, unaffiliated, nonpartisan, libertarian, blank, independent and undeclared.
“What that tells us is regardless of who voters put in office, lawmakers are not taking seriously enough the insidious problem of liberal bias in colleges and universities,” Kabbany wrote. “Higher education is one of the most important battlegrounds for the heart, soul and mind of this nation. Legislatures have the power to ensure employment laws are followed, and that includes protecting candidates from being discriminated against because of their beliefs.”
“One of the emerging ideas to solve this problem is to place ombudsman or nonpartisan trustees on faculty hiring committees to ensure all applicants, including Republicans ones, are given due consideration during the hiring process,” wrote Kabbany. “This suggestion deserves further study because, if this faculty bias problem is left unchecked, it will only continue to get worse.”
“We’ve already seen the retiring old guard of classically liberal professors being rapidly replaced by budding scholars trained up in critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion dogmas. Today, hiring committees also have so-called diversity and inclusion monitors and require applicants to submit diversity statements,” Kabbany wrote
For six of the seven universities, The College Fix relied on political registration of professors. For the seventh, the University of Georgia, The College Fix relied upon professors’ voting records in political primaries, because Georgia does not have registration by political party.
