October 8, 2007
Fewer Than 10 Percent of American Faculty Members Are Conservative, but Many Are Centrist, Study Finds
Cambridge, Mass.
Conservatives are a small minority within the American professoriate, according to a major study whose results were released on Saturday. The study¿which is 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.
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