{"id":1435,"date":"2016-10-24T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2016-10-24T07:44:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:44:14","slug":"there-are-zero-republican-professors-in-the-government-department-at-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/10\/there-are-zero-republican-professors-in-the-government-department-at-cornell\/","title":{"rendered":"There are zero Republican professors in the government department at Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/548776419\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 67.508418% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/548776419?et=NfcYnUuvQPdZdCiaBt-DnA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=AumkvRDYRwm9svKT4ZErpy0lY71TJa7cpXa19_iP4nY=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t be surprising in this day and age to discover that conservative ideas aren\u2019t welcome on the average American college campus. But it\u2019s nothing short of scandalous for there to be zero Republican professors teaching in the government department at Cornell University.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/post\/29406\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The College Fix<\/a> surveyed the faculty across 19 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and found 11 departments, including government and philosophy, devoid of conservative professors. In fact, only 17 registered Republican professors were found on the payroll, mostly in economics and history.<\/p>\n<p>The Fix reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the 671 scholars researched, almost 50 percent were registered Democrats, whereas only 2.5 percent were registered Republicans. About 33 percent could not be categorized, most likely because the registration name is different than their professorial name, or they are not registered to vote, or they are not registered to vote in Tompkins County. Another 13 percent were listed as \u201cBLK,\u201d meaning blank and defined as \u201cno party affiliation\u201d by the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Cornell spokesman responded to the Fix and assured that party affiliation \u201chas no role in our faculty recruitment or promotion processes.\u201d Cornell\u2019s provost, Michael Kotlikoff, has declared that a \u201cdiverse community is the foundation for the meaningful exploration and exchange of ideas.\u201d But the school\u2019s professors have a different view.<\/p>\n<p>Government department Professor Richard Bensel told the <i>Cornell Daily Sun<\/i> that \u201ca lot of the time conservative professors don\u2019t want to work here.\u201d He added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think many mainstream Republicans have views that are anti-intellectual and anti-science. There are candidates who are creationists, don\u2019t believe in climate change and claim that Obama\u2019s a Muslim. Ted Cruz, for example, should not teach here. \u2026Our job is not to mold the minds of young students \u2014 they\u2019ll go out into the world and do that for themselves. Cornell does not have to be a banquet that offers every viewpoint.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, they\u2019re certainly firing on all cylinders there!<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Cornell Law professor writes for the great conservative law blog Legal Insurrection. William Jacobson is concerned about the lack of viewpoints represented where he teaches:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBy that measure, Cornell is failing because there is a lack of political diversity on the faculty. Considering how political viewpoints creep into so many subjects both academic and otherwise, and faculty often are opinion leaders, the lack of political diversity on the faculty necessarily deprives the entire university community of the meaningful exploration and exchange of ideas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And just one look at the disbursement of donations from Cornell\u2019s professors to causes of their choice proves the vast majority of students are shepherded by extremely leftist philosophies. The report states that of the $600,000 given by professors to candidates and political parties last fall, over 96% went to Democratic campaigns. Out of 323 donors, only <strong>15<\/strong> gave to conservatives. In the College of Arts and Sciences alone, 99% of the nearly $200,000 donated went to liberal organizations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to have a\u201d foundation of diversity\u201d with numbers like that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there I thought college was supposed to give you a well-rounded education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There are zero Republican professors in the government department at Cornell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And there I thought college was supposed 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