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MORE ON UNIVERSITY FACULTIES? SERIOUS DIVERSITY PROBLEM: ?I don?t know any serious conservative w?

By Glenn Reynolds

MORE ON UNIVERSITY FACULTIES’ SERIOUS DIVERSITY PROBLEM: “I don?t know any serious conservative who disbelieves that self-selection plays a significant role in creating our current, left-dominated faculty. After all, we?re now dealing with several generations of leftist dominance, including ? dating back from at least the Sixties ? the perception that the universities represent the national headquarters of leftist, counter-cultural dissent. The university faculty, from students? first substantial exposure to it, looks and acts like a closed shop. The topics they study don?t interest conservatives, and the culture they?ve created is often repellent to conservatives. And because the university culture doesn?t value conservative voices ? and only wishes to cleanse itself of the stain of overt bias ? it will trumpet studies like these as evidence that disparities are entirely the fault of conservatives.” But who, really, is buying that? And, more seriously, who will be interested in paying to continue such a culture, now that money is gettting tight?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).