Several Cornell professors suggested that hiring more conservative professors would decrease the overall quality of the school’s faculty.
A recent article in the Cornell Daily Sun studying FEC filings, discovered that 96 percent of political donations from Cornell professors in the past four years have gone to Democrat campaigns.
This is surprisingly left-leaning, even for the liberal world of academia.
Professors attempted to explain the striking imbalance in beliefs and were quoted as saying Republicans don’t belong at the university because they are “anti-science” and “anti-intellectual.”
“I think many mainstream Republicans have views that are anti-intellectual and anti-science,” government professor Richard Bensel told the Sun. “There are candidates who are creationists, don’t believe in climate change and claim that Obama’s a Muslim. Ted Cruz, for example, should not teach here.”
According to one student, there is not a single moderate or conservative professor in Cornell’s government department.
“Placing more emphasis on diversity of political beliefs when hiring [would] almost certainly require sacrificing on general quality or other dimensions of diversity,” government professor Andrew Little explained.
h/t Cornell Review
