Political Diversity in American Higher Education

Two new scholarly studies by Daniel Klein et al. on the political orientation of academic faculty

I seriously question the legitimacy of any "scholarly" study that mentions UC Berkeley and Stanford in an effort to make conclusions about academia. One needs only to throw a rock in those places to hit a liberal democrat. The only way in which the whole matter would make a difference generally would be if you saw the same severely lobsided percentages amongst political science faculty, seeing as how that is the issue.

The inherent danger in any discussion of this type is the relegation of the whole thing into a left vs right question. I really don't see the relevance. Many informed people have views encompassing both sides, confounding the generalizations. And I believe if Klein were to ask more questions you would detect more diversity. Most people educated in humanities tend to be liberal. Most people educated in business tend to be conservatives. These are tendencies. These are realities. The study mentions liberal bias, but doesn't ask questions that detects diversity of opinion of historical, philosophical, economic or scientific views. These would be more relevant questions to ask university faculty.

It is a fallacy to claim that a group of people voting for the same person or the same party is lacking in "intellectual diversity." The only thing that the studies indicate to me is that Republican candidates in the last few decades have not represented this particular portion of the population very well.