Not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare in academia, so have centrists. That’s how complete the left’s dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia.
I’m a right wing professor (views are my own and not of my university).
For sure, some of it is attributable to discrimination against conservatives — but a lot of it is self-selection.
Conservatives tend to be higher in conscientiousness and lower in openness — so they’re natural born managers and businesspeople.
This is the opposite of what most professors tend to be.
Academia has unfortunately become a massive echo chamber. I used to be very opposed to the idea of “affirmative action” for conservatives — but if universities are going to survive, they need to embrace diversity of thought.
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