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To: Road Walker who wrote (255410)	10/15/2005 11:06:37 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571899

"Professors helpfully offered other theories why conservatives do not grace the halls of academe:" In my recent experience, the more overtly right wing a professor is, the more likely he(usually a he) is to be abusive towards students and other faculty. To be fair, this is restricted to a single department in a single university. Most of the professors avoid anything politically tinged as much as possible, but the ones who feel it is appropriate to drag politics into the classroom tend to be of the right wing variety. Which, on the face of it, is sort of strange. At the grad. level, most of the students in any given class aren't Americans...

To: Road Walker who wrote (255410)	10/15/2005 3:24:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571899

Posting for the sake of discussion (I don't agree)--- Why Righties Can't Teach There might be a certain bias in academia but I also think its not a profession to which righties are drawn. It might be partly pay but I also think they don't have the kind of mindset that encourages the desire to teach. In my program, I did not see any bias during the interview process, including one that favored liberals over conservatives. However, what I did see was a type of person who was drawn to the profession of teaching. A person who typically was white, not concerned with personal wealth and has a strong desire to help others. For an example, I did second interviews with 4 universities. In a second interview at one school, over a hundred fifty people were invited. I would say that I saw three or 4 persons of color in the audience. And that was true of every second interview I had. I don't think the schools I applied to when through the list of applicants and deleted the ones whom they suspected were people of color. Rather, I think teaching is not a profession that has great appeal for people of color for whatever reasons........a notion I consider very unfortunate. I think that's also true of conservatives. In my cohort, there is one conservative out of 25. I don't think that was by intent; I think that number reflects the reality. ted