alt Hacker NewsI liked the article, but I feel like this article, and many artices like, only hint or brush at truly one of the largest issues for conservatives: the numbers game. Strong majorities of professors, in pretty much every college in the United States, range from liberal to marxist. There just aren't enough conservative professors to go around! How many conservative professors even exist in the United States? 500? Maybe? Seems high honestly. (And of those, perhaps a dozen are actually honest to goodness God-fearing Conservatives, and not just libertarians.) So to me, it's no wonder that universities are such a target, pretty much everyone who staffs them, everyone who teaches at them, and everyone who attends them, is liberal.
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It's not the fault of universities that education is incongruous with certain values like fear of change and progress.
https://www.univstats.com/staffs/
There’s roughly 1.5 million post-secondary instructors in the United States, roughly half full-time.
Estimates of conservative faculty range between 7-15%. (FIRE, where the 15% figure comes from, probably overestimates due to their conservative bias.)
So approximately 50,000 to 110,000 conservative faculty. You’re off by a couple orders of magnitude.
There’s over 500 faculty working at Liberty University alone, never mind the other, larger Evangelical Christian schools.