Evidence for the One Liberal Party Campus continues. Stanley Rothman, Neil Nevitte, and Robert Lichter have produced a study, using data from the 1999 data from the North American Academic Study Survey, demonstrate not only liberal dominance, but more dominance now than 20 years ago:
Rothman, Lichter and Nevitte find a leftward shift on campus over the past two decades. In the last major survey of college faculty, by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1984, 39 percent identified themselves as liberal.
In contrast with the finding that nearly three-quarters of college faculty are liberal, a Harris Poll of the general public last year found that 33 percent describe themselves as conservative and 18 percent as liberal.
This study found greater liberal bias in disciplines than found by previous studies:
The most left-leaning departments are English literature, philosophy, political science and religious studies, where at least 80 percent of the faculty say they are liberal and no more than 5 percent call themselves conservative, the study says.
You can read the study here.

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