The original post was written up in a New York Post article.
http://nypost.com/2015/12/10/how-to-find-a-college-where-the-facultys-not-all-lefties/
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When Shields wrote about this in a blog post, it was linked to the College Confidential website last week and immediately garnered thousands of hits. While some commenters appreciated the research, others objected to the idea that only self-identified conservatives could ensure the free exchange of ideas in the classroom.
Of course that’s not the case. One of my favorite professors at Harvard was a brilliant teacher of Shakespeare and Faulkner and I was completely unaware until after graduation that he had written speeches for Al Gore.
Unfortunately, it’s becoming exceedingly rare for professors to keep their politics out of the classroom, and even if students want apolitical content, they’re much better off with conservative academics who tend to shy away from the politicization of academic inquiry.
By the way, if your child is set on an Ivy League education, you may be particularly worried. The wrong Halloween costume at Yale can create a campus-wide uprising. At Brown University, people who want to engage in free inquiry now have to join a secret society. For the record, Shields says that Harvard has more ideological diversity on its faculty than the rest.
He’s hoping to continue his research, but in the meantime, it’s important for parents to know they have a choice. “There are a million consumer guides for colleges out there — the hottest guys, the best dining commons.” But there’s not much guidance if students want a statistical measure of ideological diversity.
Indeed, if enough families start to consider this kind of data, school administrators might do so as well.