October 19, 2007

Few Conservatives but Many Centrists Teach in Academe

By DAVID GLENN

Claims of 'extreme leftism' are unfounded, say authors of study

Conservatives are a small minority within the American professoriate, according to a major study whose results were released this month. The study, arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s, found that only 9.2 percent of college instructors are conservatives, and that only 20.4 percent voted for George W. Bush in 2004.

But at a symposium this month at Harvard University,

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