In the political prejudice review by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology released Monday, about 70% to 80% of those who have conservative stances said they face people actively "discouraging them from pursuing academic careers," mostly in the humanities and social sciences.
“High profile incidents of campus illiberalism are often brushed off as spirited exceptions to the rule that academic freedom is safe,” an executive summary noted.
The study results found that:
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62% of grad students with a "very right" worldview said revealing their political views to their peers would "make [their] life difficult;" 32% with "somewhat right" views said the same 18% of centrists said they would be discriminated against, 6% of the "somewhat left" group indicated their views would complicate their experience, and 8% of the "very left" said the same.
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4 in 10 academics would not hire a supporter of former President Donald Trump and 65% of graduate students said they would hire an advocate of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., over a Trump backer.
57% of U.S. academics said they "would be uncomfortable or unsure about sitting next to a Trump-supporting academic at lunch."
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82% of grad students discriminated against a backer of the former president in at least one of six instances posed to them in a series of questions.
Just 1 in 10 academics support the "firing" of "controversial professors." 12% of academics "openly admitted" to discriminating against conservative "paper submissions" and "promotion applications;" 20% said they did the same to right-leaning grants.
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The study results from a questionnaire sent in August 2020 to 40,000 academics over top collegiate institutions did not include a margin of error.
High-profile events of campus illiberalism are often seen as spirited objections to the rule that academic freedom is safe. Recent instances include the crowd violence pointed against Charles Murray at Middlebury State College and Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State University. Progressive critics view the free speech debate–on campus and more commonly–as overblown, a moral panic concocted by the right.[1] In universities, many don’t undergo a threat to their ability to teach and research, so they wonder what the problem is.
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From the view of the small minority of right-leaning academics, we see the results of this behavior, with most saying they experience a hostile climate in their departments and that they self-censor in their teaching and research. According to the surveys, over a third of conservative academics and Ph.D. students in the United States say they have been threatened with disciplinary action for their beliefs.
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