The Liberty Daily 
(WND)—Princeton has reached a sort of “perfection,” the complete absence of faculty political donations to Republicans.
Long have American universities excluded, censored, even cast out, conservatives on their faculty. That’s the goal, apparently, according to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who repeatedly has cited the problem and recommended solutions.
Recently Yale faculty, he said, “reached academic nirvana after years of purging departments of conservatives and Republicans. The university finally showed zero political donations to Republicans.”
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Princeton now, he said, has joined that elite and questionable, status.
“According to a new study by Princetonians for Free Speech (PFS) … 98% of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups and 0% went to Republicans or affiliated groups,” he documented.
He said such donations are a measure of “the degree of ideological orthodoxy and intolerance in higher education. While some academics simply do not make contributions and may still hold conservative views, the study still offers another insight into the political preferences of those who do make such contributions.”
There could be academics with conservative values but, he said, the results reaffirm “the extreme imbalance of ideological views at this and other universities.”
He noted today’s faculty have “created a hostile environment for anyone with conservative or libertarian viewpoints, including students who rarely have the opportunity to hear from a professor from a center-right perspective at most schools.”
He cited reports that 40% of college faculty admitted they would vote against any Trump supporter seeking an academic position “regardless of their scholarship or teaching ability.”
And he listed a number of individuals who have confirmed such attitudes to him directly.
He noted the faculty’s narrow-mindedness: “At schools like Yale and Princeton, they have achieved near 100% for Democrats (with only a couple of percent going for independent or socialist causes). Yet, if you ask faculty about the purging of their ranks, they will often shrug and say that they just cannot find a conservative or libertarian who is intellectually worthy of an appointment to their schools. It was the same absurd rationalization that was once used to justify not hiring minorities or women.”
He said, “Of course, nothing is laughable about the state of higher education. This generation of administrators and faculty are destroying our educational institutions because they cannot set aside their political bias and intolerance for the benefit of their schools. Higher education has reached record lows in public trust. Yet, these professors and deans are insulated from such public opinion. They are often financially insulated from the economic impact of such isolation. In higher education, the echo chamber works to their personal benefit, increasing their opportunities for writing and conferences. They also do not face opposing views of their scholarship or viewpoints.”
He noted privately funded organizations can get support from like-minded donors, but for public universities, state legislatures should respond by tying “further public subsidies to real and substantial changes in creating intellectual diversity among faculty.”
