Five myths about liberal academia

Feb 27, 2011 by

By Matthew Woessner, April Kelly-Woessner and Stanley Rothman

Friday, February 25, 2011; 12:00 PM

Do red-blooded, hard-working Americans pay thousands of dollars each year to send their children to college, only to have those kids turned into pot-smoking Obamacare-lovers by a pack of communist hippies? This stereotype — professors as brainwashing left-wing ideologues — has dogged academia at least since the Vietnam War era. But our nation’s vilified professoriate isn’t composed of just Marxists and Whole Foods shoppers. Let’s upend five popular misconceptions about the people educating the next generation.

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  • Blake

    It would have been nice if they had bothered to reportt if there are trends as to what fields liberal, moderate and conservative professors tend to end up in. In my university experience the conservative professors were mostly in the Engineering, Math and Science college while the liberal professors dominated the Liberal Arts college. The few conservative professors in the liberal arts college would regularly complain to students about how they were treated by colleagues. The stereotype about students becoming more liberal also held true since it would be in the liberal arts type classes where such political and social predispositions would have been directly challenged either through gen eds or as a major/minor.