The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the faculty outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At two of the schools – Bowdoin and Wellesley – the ratio was 23-1. ... Despite national registration figures showing roughly equal numbers of Americans registered as Democrats and Republicans, the Center found that not a single department among 32 schools came close to achieving parity between them. The fairest distribution at any school was at Northwestern University where 80 percent of the faculty members identified were registered Democrats, making the ratio 4-to-1. On average, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by a factor of 10-to-1.

At select schools, the ratios were far worse. At Brown University the ratio was 30-to-1, while at Swarthmore it was 21-to-1; at Columbia it was 14-to-1. At no less than four elite schools, Williams, Oberlin, MIT, and Haverford, the Center was unable to identify a single Republican on their faculties.

At a large research institution like Columbia University, the Center was able to identify only four Republican faculty members in the departments studied, and could not locate a single Republican in the history or political science departments.

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