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The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

I'm guessing this is an overall average. It's much worse; David Horowitz has reported on studies that show that in many colleges, there is not one single conservative professor in the entire political science department. He covers this bias regularly on his website, Frontpage Magazine, speaks on the subject at colleges (when administrations don't forbid student associations from inviting him, and when he is not blocked out or shouted down by the (tolerant) college liberals), and is a major supporter of Students for Academic Freedom, an organization of students promoting tolerance of differing political views on campuses around the country.

If the members of that organization get wind of this request, CNN will be positively deluged with anecdotes.

I can see it now, they are going to say they had only a small response so it must not be a problem.

I mean it's not like conservatives watch them every day to get their news.

I guess it would be way to hard for them to maybe contact some known conservative groups who are in place on the campuses around our country to get an earfull.

It's like asking a Jewish person about the latest news out of the Vatican.

I graduated from one of the top small colleges in the South. It was an interesting mix. The admin were conservatives. The profs very liberal. And the student body had a large percentage of conservative Christians thanks to one of the main school supporters. A prof in the French department, who got a say in hirings in the humanities sections, told me plainly once that they would never hire a conservative....this came in a discussion about the odd mix of strong ideologies on our campus.

I spent the better part of my adult life at different colleges, in the humanities departments, and I can't remember a single clearly conservative prof though those who showed clear liberal tendancies were common.

I can only remember one time in the conferences and panels I saw where a prof spoke up for something that could be considered conservative - but even there - it was really just an example of someone not saying the same thing as all the others (about 6 panelists on this occasion) - which was a discussion on North Korea policy where peace keeping missions or intervention was brought up and one of the panelists made a snide remark about Bosnia/Kosovo and one professor in the audience offered a rebuttal. I almost fainted........but even here, this is not a true conservative opinion, because "nation building" isn't their thing typically (see George Will, for example)....

I graduated from Columbia in 2006. My experience with the professors, administration, and student body was overwhelming positive. There is no question that the student body leans left, but I always felt that the school was a place of discussion and openness rather than anything else. I never experienced or heard of professors or administrators using political beliefs as basis of judgment for anything. Thought and expression are supported on campus, as I often had long debates at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on 111th Street for hours with students or professors whose views were completely opposite from mine. There was always an honest and truly academic sense to debate while I was there. In my eyes Columbia is one of the greatest forums for debate, discussion, and expression of ideas.