Quote:
Originally Posted by blankall
In the USA universities are big business. Their combined voting power (including faculty and staff) is huge. They definitely lean towards the far left. I'd argue they are just as big of a voting/lobby group as any other major industry.
|
I think you are vastly overestimating how far reaching and entrenched this liberal bias is in colleges and universities. Its not as if every single person that decides to work at a college is some hard core liberal activist. Sure colleges often function as a bastion of openness, but I think if anything, they function more like cliffs opening quote. There are a small amount of loud voices that are just allowed to exist as to not upset the apple cart. There are plenty of faculty who aren't at all liberal and there's certainly plenty of staff who aren't there because of political openness or affiliation. Did Janice in accounting take the job because she wants a place to express her liberal values, or did she just take a job with a decent salary and some stability in her field???
I have spent the majority of my career in higher ed having worked at 3 separate colleges including right now. And I even went to a small liberal arts college for my undergrad. But in none of these experiences over the last 20 years have I seen anything like what gets characterized in conservative media.