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‎University Ideology

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‎University Ideology

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‎University Ideology

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‎University Ideology

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Eric Rasmusen: /* Academic Intolerance */

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‎Academic Intolerance

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‎Budgets

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‎Tuition at Colleges

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Miscellaneous */

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‎Miscellaneous

Rasmusen p1vaim at 19:09, 21 May 2021

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	:Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter found in 2009's The Politically Correct University that socially conservative professors tend to work at lower-ranked institutions than their publication records would suggest. More recently, a 2016 study of elite law schools in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found that libertarian and conservative professors publish more than their peers, which suggests that right-leaning law professors must outshine liberals to reach the summits of their profession."		:Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter found in 2009's The Politically Correct University that socially conservative professors tend to work at lower-ranked institutions than their publication records would suggest. More recently, a 2016 study of elite law schools in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found that libertarian and conservative professors publish more than their peers, which suggests that right-leaning law professors must outshine liberals to reach the summits of their profession."
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		+	*[https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-are-there-so-few-conservative-professors "Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors?"] (024) Steve Teles, a liberal (as he says in the article). Some good anecdotal evidence, e.g. that at UVA and Harvard there used to be several conservative poli sci profs in 1994 and 1975; in 2024, no.

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-*[https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappearing-conservative-professor "The Disappearing Conservative Professor,"] National Affairs:
+*[https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappearing-conservative-professor "The Disappearing Conservative Professor,"] National Affairs (2025). It has a table with various fields and studies of them. It says 33% of economists are Republicans and 27% are conservatives, which seems high. It's a a bit out of date. THe HERI-UCLA people at heri.ucla.edu are probably the best source.
 :"In Compromising Scholarship, a 2011 book by sociologist George Yancey, some 30% of sociologists acknowledged that they would be less likely to hire a job applicant if they knew he was a Republican. Yancey further discovered that 15% of political scientists and 24% of philosophy professors would discriminate against Republican job applicants, and at least 30% of professors in all disciplines surveyed would discriminate against members of the NRA.

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	Far Left 12.1%		Far Left 12.1%
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		+	*[https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-disappearing-conservative-professor "The Disappearing Conservative Professor,"] National Affairs:
		+	:"In Compromising Scholarship, a 2011 book by sociologist George Yancey, some 30% of sociologists acknowledged that they would be less likely to hire a job applicant if they knew he was a Republican. Yancey further discovered that 15% of political scientists and 24% of philosophy professors would discriminate against Republican job applicants, and at least 30% of professors in all disciplines surveyed would discriminate against members of the NRA.
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		+	:Professors are even less tolerant of evangelicals, whom they associate with social conservatism. Nearly 60% of anthropologists, 50% of literature professors, 39% of political scientists and sociologists, 34% of philosophy professors, and 29% of historians say they would be less inclined to hire evangelicals. Yancey further found that female professors expressed more anti-conservative bias than men, perhaps in part because female professors tend to be more progressive than their male peers. . . .
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		+	:Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter found in 2009's The Politically Correct University that socially conservative professors tend to work at lower-ranked institutions than their publication records would suggest. More recently, a 2016 study of elite law schools in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy found that libertarian and conservative professors publish more than their peers, which suggests that right-leaning law professors must outshine liberals to reach the summits of their profession."

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 *[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2024/10/faculty-presidential-election-survey-78-harris-9-trump.html "Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump"], Inside Higher Education, via Taxprof.
-*[https://heri.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DATA-TABLES-FAC-2022-2023.pdf  UCLA study of political leanings of faculty]  (2022, I think)
+*[https://heri.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DATA-TABLES-FAC-2022-2023.pdf  UCLA study of political leanings of faculty]  (2022, I think). It has type of college (public, private, religious, etc.),which turns out to make little difference. NOt by field, though.
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   The sample of 7300 faculty identified their political leanings this way (p. 28 of the pdf):

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	*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2024/10/faculty-presidential-election-survey-78-harris-9-trump.html "Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump"], Inside Higher Education, via Taxprof.		*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2024/10/faculty-presidential-election-survey-78-harris-9-trump.html "Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump"], Inside Higher Education, via Taxprof.
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		+	*[https://heri.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/DATA-TABLES-FAC-2022-2023.pdf UCLA study of political leanings of faculty] (2022, I think)
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		+	The sample of 7300 faculty identified their political leanings this way (p. 28 of the pdf):
		+	Far Right 0.5%
		+	Conservative 12.2%
		+	Middle of the road 31.5%
		+	Liberal 43.8%
		+	Far Left 12.1%
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	"Relatively conservative professors valued academic rigor and knowledge advancement more than did relatively liberal professors."		"Relatively conservative professors valued academic rigor and knowledge advancement more than did relatively liberal professors."
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		+	==University Ideology==
		+	*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2022/04/measuring-the-conservative-penalty-and-liberal-bonus-with-updated-2023-rankings-data.html "Measuring The Conservative Penalty And Liberal Bonus With Updated 2023 U.S. News Rankings Data"] TaxProf (2022) on a study of law school rankings.
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		+	*[https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-survey-only-20-university-faculty-say-conservative-would-fit-well-their-department "Only 20% of university faculty say a conservative would fit in well in their department"] FIRE 2022 survey.
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		+	*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2024/10/faculty-presidential-election-survey-78-harris-9-trump.html "Faculty Presidential Election Survey: 78% Harris, 8% Trump"], Inside Higher Education, via Taxprof.

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 *[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.americaneagle.openthebooks Open the Books ]
 *[https://www.howcollegesspendmoney.com/  www.howcollegesspendmoney.com]
 ==Tuition at Colleges==

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 ==Tuition at Colleges==
 *[https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/05/private-college-tuition-discount-rate-hits-all-time-high-of-539.html Tuition discount rates on averaege, TaxProf]

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 ==Miscellaneous==
 [https://excellenceinhighered.org/ Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education], a big, well-funded attempt to set up Centers at elite universities to teach the humanities outside of the official framework. A very good idea. They  could be self-funding by alumni donations if it does good work, and will rightly die if used for grifting.
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 I wonder if hospitals evaluate doctors in the same way. We'd expect that,  I think--- bedside manner is what patients care about, and someone who *looks* like he's competent, and who gives them a lot of pills and procedures and tells them they're working if only they keep on paying for more of it. The big difference is that the insurance companies, who are paying, get involved. Universities make sure to keep parents, who are paying, far away from knowing what is going on in classes and dormitories. That's what FERPA is for.
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 ==Johns Hopkins Lies about Budget to Cut Faculty Salaries==
 [https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/04/the-lesson-from-johns-hopkins-universitys-reversed-suspension-of-employee-retirement-contributions-d.html "The Lesson From Johns Hopkins' Reversed Suspension Of Employee Retirement Contributions During COVID-19: Faculty Should Use Forensic Audits To Expose Faux Austerity"] TaxProf (2021)