Liberals and progressives sometimes complain that Republicans win more elections, and they do. But cheer up, lefties—you’ve got a lock on the nation’s elite colleges. The thought occurred to us when we read through Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty, a new study by the National Association of Scholars (available at NAS.org).
We won’t relay all the study’s findings. Suffice it to say that at America’s most prestigious liberal arts colleges, gatherings of the GOP Faculty Club won’t violate any fire-marshal regulations. At a significant number of these elite institutions, you can count the number of registered Republican faculty on one hand. At Barnard, there’s 1 Republican and 98 Democrats. At Mount Holyoke, there are 2 Republicans and 89 Democrats. At Smith, the ratio is 4:131. At Vassar, it’s 4:140. At Bryn Mawr, you don’t need any hands at all to count GOP faculty.
We’re guessing, though, that each of these institutions employs plenty of diversity administrators.
