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March 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A new study exploring political biases in academia over a decade demonstrates “that a majority of conservative academics experience a hostile environment for their beliefs in U.S., Canadian, and British universities.”
Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship, authored by Dr. Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, was published Monday.
According to Kaufmann, the study is the first of its kind investigating political discrimination in academia and authoritarianism by surveying professors and graduate students in social sciences and humanities faculties (SSH) at universities in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. His findings constitute “hard data on the absence of viewpoint diversity (in universities) and the presence of discrimination against conservative and gender-critical scholars.”
In the top 100 U.S. universities, the study found that 73 percent of academics are liberal, 22 percent made no affiliation, and only around 5 percent are conservative. Less than half of left-leaning professors would be comfortable in a close social situation with someone who voted for Donald Trump, with that number plummeting
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