AUSTIN, TX – Members of the University of Texas at Austin’s Young Conservatives of Texas chapter, a student group affiliated with CampusReform.org, recently researched the political leanings of their university professors and found substantial liberal bias in the academy. Specifically, the school’s faculty gave 81 percent of their political donations ($42,791) to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and a mere 8 percent ($4,150) to John McCain’s in the 2008 election season.
These numbers make sense when viewed as an example of the academy as a whole. In the 2004 presidential election, the Yale faculty donation ratio of Kerry to Bush was 150:3. The ratio at Princeton wasn’t much different, 114:1, nor at Harvard, 406:13.
“I knew that the faculty at UT leaned left, but I never really thought to do research. Then I got the idea for this activism project from CampusReform.org and found that the imbalance is really remarkable,” said Dustin Matocha, chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas chapter at UT.
“It all makes sense from our experience,” Matocha continued. “The university brainwashes incoming freshman with mandatory ‘diversity orientations’ but tried to prevent us from sharing views about individualism to those freshman. They also catered to special interests when they stopped officially celebrating Texas Independence Day, among other things. It just goes to show that they promote diversity only when it is politically expedient to them.”
This project is one of several reports with similar findings which have been published on CampusReform.org, indicating that this imbalance is widespread in American colleges and universities.
CampusReform.org is the Leadership Institute’s comprehensive grassroots mobilization tool for liberty-loving student activists. For more information about CampusReform.org, contact Bryan Bernys at bbernys@campusreform.org or (703) 647-3352.
The Young Conservatives of Texas, a non-partisan conservative youth organization, has been fighting for conservative values for more than a quarter century in the Lone Star State. YCT and its members participate in the entire spectrum of Texas politics, attempting to shape the policies of the state of Texas through a number of means including educating students and the public, advocating conservative fiscal and social policies, campus activism, campaigning for political candidates, and rating the Texas legislature.
