Kerby Anderson

We are all aware of how a conservative speaker is treated on a college campus. Now there is growing evidence that even moderate and slightly liberal speakers or professors will be treated poorly. A law professor from another university speaking at the City University of New York School of Law was shouted down for 10 minutes before he could continue his remarks. And the President of Duke University was shocked when students commandeered the stage, shouting demands and telling him to leave.

The universities are becoming more liberal and less diverse each year. Brooklyn College professor Mitchell Langbert looked at the political affiliations of the faculty at 51 of the 66 top-ranked liberal arts colleges. He found that 39 percent of the colleges in the sample were Republican-free. In other words, you could not find one Republican faculty member. Even when you find a Republican on a college campus, you still have 78 percent of departments in these colleges with no Republican members.

The Democrat-to-Republican ratios in some academic departments were shocking. Consider the anthropology departments where the ratio is 133-to-1. How about the communications departments where the ratio is 108-to-zero. As you might imagine, there were no Republicans at all in the fields of gender studies, Africana studies, and peace studies.

Universities may talk about diversity, but they mean ethnic diversity and sexual orientation diversity. They certainly don’t mean political diversity. Leftist political homogeneity is the rule on college campuses today. That is why students and faculty allow only liberal, progressive speakers and course content.