Open Academy = Conservative Politics?

It was not a mixed-view point faculty. It was a staunchly conservative department that is now moving towards being more centered with the possiblity of one day (in the far future) being left-leaning. And again, unless you atteneded this college you have no say in what direction it should be going in. The department was previously predominantly conservative faculty and students. Now the student body as a whole is overwhelmingly democratic and as such a shift in the professors would reflect the changing attitudes of the students.

And no where did I say they were only recruiting left-leaning faculty members. If you go back and read my post I explicitly say that of the visiting professors two are 2 left-leaning and the other 2 right-leaning. And therefore I said there was a changing tide which I attributed to the open-mindedness of the current department chair. I’m pointing out that a once wholly conservative department is now hiring more left-leaning professors. Why are you invested with keeping it wholly conservative? You seem to want to defend the conservative student from a liberal professor but do not offer the same protection to the CMC student body who were previously stuck with almost only conservative Government professors as options.

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