Higher Education: Articles on Ideological Diversity on Campuses

I happened to come cross a few articles on the topic of ideological diversity on college and university campuses. This topic interests me.

Nicholas Kristof writes at the New York Times,

"Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities disregard is ideological and religious. We’re fine with people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us."

In parallel, Fredrik deBoer argues at the Los Angles Times,

"But academics are at fault, too, because we’ve pushed mainstream conservatism out of our institutions. Sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons have found that about half of professors identify as liberal, versus only 14% who identify as Republican. (At the time of their study, in 2006, only a fifth of American adults described themselves as liberal.)

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In my network of professional academics, almost no one recognizes that our lopsided liberalism presents a threat to academia itself."

and suggests that,

"Our public universities are under massive pressure and at immense risk, and those who should be defenders of public universities still don’t understand that they’ve created the conditions for their destruction."