What do all these colleges have in common?

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Cal Poly

This is my alma mater and its somewhat conservative IMO considering it's an agriculture school. Although, my fraternity got banned though for sexual harrasment issues while I was there.🙁

I'm a 3rd year EE at Cal Poly right now. I'd have to agree with you, it is pretty evenly split with a slight tilt to the right. However, I don't see Cal Poly on that website, so I don't know the reasons why it made "the list."

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: rockyct

Originally posted by: Zebo

Cal Poly

This is my alma mater and its somewhat conservative IMO considering it's an agriculture school. Although, my fraternity got banned though for sexual harrasment issues while I was there.🙁

I'm a 3rd year EE at Cal Poly right now. I'd have to agree with you, it is pretty evenly split with a slight tilt to the right. However, I don't see Cal Poly on that website, so I don't know the reasons why it made "the list."

It's in the film...some guy was basically arrested and almost kicked out for posting suposed rascist fliers.🙁

Hey, so is hou$ing any better than when I was there 10 yrs ago?.. Also they ever finish all that construction on south perimeter? I hear it looks like a new campus with new sports complex etc..

 

[IronMentality]

Teachers should be completely objective in the classroom. However, the majority are completely liberal and openly discuss and force there point of view on there students constantly.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: IronMentality
Teachers should be completely objective in the classroom. However, the majority are completely liberal and openly discuss and force there point of view on there students constantly.

At my school, most of the profs. are definitely liberal; however, I don't think that's the real problem.

The problems come from liberal administrators (and perhaps conservatives if you can find such a college) that try to push their agenda on others.

 

[burnedout]

Couple more updates on this subject.

The Wall Street Journal opines further in a piece called "A Chill in the Classroom".

The Yale Free Press also discusses its own environment in "Politics and the Professor: When the Classroom Becomes the Pulpit".

 

[burnedout]

The situation is bad when the UCLA student newspaper notices the descrepancy between conservatives and liberals on campus:

[Hat tip: Professor Stephen Bainbridge]

A recent study found that nearly half of all college students believe that professors are infusing course curricula with their own political beliefs.

Nearly one-third of the students attending some of the nation's top colleges and universities, including UCLA, reported that they had to agree with the political views of some professors in order to get a good grade, and 46 percent believed that some professors use the classroom to present their personal political views.

 

[Dudd]

As an engineering major, I have no clue what the hell everyone is talking about. Obviously no one cares about your political views in a math or science class. Anyways, I go to one of the schools on the list (Notre Dame), and prior to the election, the newspaper conducted a mock vote, setting up a both in the student center. Anyways, they broke down the results by grade, and there was a clear increase for Kerry as the voter got older. It was something like 60-30-10 Bush/Kerry/other or undecided for the freshman, and 30-60-10 for the seniors, with minor shifts in that direction seen for the sophomores and juniors.

 

[burnedout]

A Republican faculty member who must write under a psuedonym

My new tenure-track digs include a large office in a historic building with leaded-pane windows, sills deep enough to stack files on, and shelves on three walls filled with my own books, departmental gems, and junk from years past.

All the signs point to it: I'm finally a bona-fide member of academe.

Yet I'm gradually coming to realize that my membership card should read "in but not of" -- something the 2004 presidential election set in stark relief. Maybe I should have seen it coming all along.

[...]

You see, I am a Republican. And strive though I may to conform, to be in the academic in-group, I cannot.

My political leanings posed a special challenge during faculty job interviews. With ample practice over the years -- and after several naïve attempts to present myself as an enlightened conservative ended in rejection letters -- I finally mastered the art of the unnoticed evasion. At the mere mention of politics, I would smile knowingly, roll my eyes, maybe grimace for good measure, and then return to an earlier thread in the conversation. If you can use "speaking of which" to make the segue, all the better.

[..]

As if to confirm that I was indeed just being paranoid, I sat through 50 minutes of my first faculty meeting on the campus with nary a mention of politics. I must have read the parking lot wrong, I thought. Then, in the final few minutes of the meeting, a senior faculty member arose to make an announcement: A faculty panel would discuss the impact of September 11 on the United States, with the dean of the college offering summary remarks.

There was no hint of a leftward lean -- until, that is, the senior faculty member added, "And just in case the students don't get our message on how to vote in November, we have arranged for a showing of Fahrenheit 9/11 directly after the panel."

[...]

After class, I asked one of the students for his read on what had happened. How could the response be so heated but the question left unengaged? He replied: "You know how it is. Students don't want to disagree with their professors. Most of the students around here are pretty conservative, but they get the strong sense that their professors are liberal. And on issues like these, they're afraid to disagree." They had made assumptions about how I would think and were reluctant to contradict me.