LAist: Red Bruin, Blue Bruin

cindylu

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:55:30 -0800

There are over 1,200 faculty members at UCLA. This guy has 30 on his list and another 23 or so he's willing to pay students for for more information. What's the problem really? I've heard that conservative academics go to think thans rather than work as researchers at universities. Perhaps the increase in non-white and more women faculty has had a liberalizing effect. Regarding Pete's comment, I'd like to see if there is a significant difference in educational aspirations between entering and fourth year college students identifying as liberal or conservative.

Pete

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:52:36 -0800

Conservatives increasingly don't even bother to go into PhD programs. In large part this has to do with the grip that postmodernism/poststructuralism has on so many fields. If you don't want to worship at the altars of Habermas and Foucault, you're going to be very uncomfortable. In the humanities, this serves to eliminate pretty much anyone to the right of Tom Hayden. It's even a problem in the social sciences: As a center-left pragmatic Democrat, I find myself thought of nearly as a fascist by my critical theory-infatuated peers in the urban planning PhD program at USC.