Yes, you do need to 'prove the obvious' - mainly because everything you claim to be 'true' and 'fact' is, on critical examination.... total fucking bullshit.
You're on a par with truthmatters for honesty and intelligence.
College have - for decades - been more liberal biased. I know this. I attended one. Then, I attended another one to do my Masters.
You insist on making your ridiculous claims.... so I'm gonna carry on mocking your blatant anti-intellectualism and whining.
College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds
College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.
By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.
The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where, according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent are conservative.
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In contrast with the finding that nearly three-quarters of college faculty are liberal, a Harris Poll of the general public last year found that 33 percent describe themselves as conservative and 18 percent as liberal.
The liberal label that a majority of the faculty members attached to themselves is reflected on a variety of issues. The professors and instructors surveyed are, strongly or somewhat, in favor of abortion rights (84 percent); believe homosexuality is acceptable (67 percent); and want more environmental protection "even if it raises prices or costs jobs" (88 percent). What's more, the study found, 65 percent want the government to ensure full employment, a stance to the left of the Democratic Party.
Recent campus controversies have reinforced the left-wing faculty image. The University of Colorado is reviewing its tenure system after one professor, Ward Churchill, created an uproar by likening World Trade Center victims to Nazis. Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences voted no confidence in the university's president, Lawrence Summers, after he privately wondered whether women had the same natural ability as men in science and math.
Academia is out of touch with America.
I absolutely love that article you linked too. Let's review a few of the more juicy tidbits:
"What's most striking is how few conservatives there are in any field" (no surprise there)
Religious services take a back seat for many faculty members, (that's because it's a "college" not a fucking church)
The study appears in the March issue of the Forum, an online political science journal.
It was funded by the Randolph Foundation, a right-leaning group that has given grants to such conservative organizations (makes you wonder how honest it is)
Rothman sees the findings as evidence of "possible discrimination" against conservatives in hiring and promotion. Even after factoring in levels of achievement, as measured by published work and
organization memberships (belonging to an "organization" is an "achievement"? Seriously? Hilarious!), "the most likely conclusion" is that "being conservative counts against you," he said. "It doesn't surprise me, because I've observed it happening."
The study, however, describes this finding as "preliminary." (Preliminary? I've observed it happening? Does this sound remotely scientific?)
"It's hard to see that these liberal views cut very deeply into the education of students. In fact,
a number of studies show the core values that students bring into the university are not very much altered by being in college." (This is the most hilarious so far. They're saying the students were liberal when they started college. That means more liberals go to college. Funnier and funnier. Seriously.)
The study did not attempt to examine whether the political views of faculty members affect the content of their courses.
But liberals outnumbered conservatives even among engineering faculty (51 percent to 19 percent) (Who knew?)
For the most hilarious part of all, check out this article:
Wash. Times news, opinion pieces peddled flawed survey on liberal professors
I tend to believe Republicans when they say "Education is just a piece of paper" and "we don't want no intellectuals".
