Ideological Diversity amongst University Faculty: None

Here;s an article from the Dartmouth Review on academic diversity. Santa Clara University Professor Daniel Klein finds that at faculty at Stanford and Berkeley, Democracts outnumber Republicans by eight to one.

Of the more than 20 departments Klein investigated for his project, all suffered from a dearth of Republicans. Some departments, including journalism and anthropology, had not a single Republican or right-leaning professor on the faculy.

What started as liberal dominance in the mid-20th century, when Democrats outnumbered Republicans four-to-one, has now declined into a virtual Democratic stranglehold of the academy. “Basically, there are no Republicans in the social sciences and humanities at the two Harvards of the West.”

As if the current situation is not disheartening enough, Klein postulated that things will grow worse in future years. He revealed that the number of young, non-tenured faculty with Republican tendencies is practically negligible. Nearly all members of the current Republican minority are tenured faculty, many of them holdovers from a previous era and nearing retirement. When they finally step down, there simply will be no Republican associate professors able to fill the vacant posts.

“Republicans are being systematically eradicated from the faculty,” Klein said. Unless this trend shifts dramatically in the next few years, Republican faculty are facing almost certain extinction. Klein did offer one optimistic note, suggesting that a sizable portion of the current Democrats might one day “mature into Republicans.”