ANALYSIS: University of Georgia university many more Democratic than country’s voters ,
If only the University of Georgia’s university lounge had cast their ballots, the outcome would have been much different from what Donald Trump had achieved on Tuesday night, which Peach State had just lost.
According to a study conducted by College Fix, Democratic professors at the University of Georgia are outnumbered by their Democratic counterparts by a proportion of 7 to 1.
Additionally, three out of 12 arts agencies have no Democratic professors, according to an analysis of publicly accessible Clarke County election information.
The Fix reviewed Clarke County vote information for the 2020, 2022, and 2024 primary elections to establish one’s party affiliation. The Fix did not examine the six nearby regions.
To meet the identifying information, the poll looked up a full of 259 faculty in arts sections based on their labels listed on the websites of the various academic sections as well as their curriculum vitae and research papers. The study merely includes professors, no undergrads, lecturers, teaching assistants, or ad.
There may be crossover in some sections. The Fix places professors under what appears to be their main area of study when they are listed in various departments. In addition to the different political parties, Republicans from different majors may be teaching in these departments.
Of the 259 academics looked up, a complete of 130 may be identified as citizens. In the last six times, 17 academics voted Democrat a majority of the time. Nevertheless, one responded to a verification email and said they are certainly a Republican. However, 110 voted a lot Democrat in the 2020, 2022, and 2024 elections.
Another three are listed as “non-partisan”. This refers to voters who did no vote in a democratic party’s key, but just voted in democratic elections, such as judges.
The English, story, and church agencies have no identifiable Democratic faculty.
Just one recognizable Democratic teacher can be found in the departments of comparative books and cultural studies and philosophy and sociology. There are two Democrats in each of the language and philosophy departments.
The University of Georgia’s background, religion, and English sections received a series of emails asking about the bend of their departments, but only one of them responded in the previous year.
Past Chair Kevin Jones said his office “does not contemplate political involvement of employment candidates”, and that following university plan, the department does not regard “race and ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, and spiritual faith and political affiliation” when hiring.
According to Jones, the division “would undoubtedly check any and all allegations that specific faculty members or the division as a whole engaged in any form of discrimination in any of these categories.”
J. Derrick Lemons, head of the church section, and Roland Vegso, mind of the English ministry, did not respond to two letters from The College Fix sent in the previous year.
The 17 Republican-majority professors received emails from The College Fix, each of whom wrote a comment on the school ‘ political climate.
He claimed that, based on this study, he is surprised by the proportion of faculty members who vote Republican.
The professor wrote in an email to The Fix that “UGA has been largely socially dormant during the period I have been here, but our independence is fast eroding.”
He claimed that the university’s university attempts to “push” a majority of the student system” to the left by offering politically conscious programs.”
” Some individuals have complained” about these programs and the left-leaning university, but he suspects that different individuals resent the needs but chose to remain passive.
The doctor requested to remain left private, as there would be” effects” to his name being published.
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The College Republicans book head, Luke Winkler, claimed in a telephone interview with The Fix that the ratio of Democrat to Republican is not at all surprising. Because faculty and administrators are essentially government employees, they have a slim “overwhelmingly liberal” attitude.
The young finance key observed that there is generally no pushback because being a traditional depends on the type of class and the particular professors.
But “whenever you get to the research faculty and the poli-sci academics”, they will get political stances,” and they’re not pretty tolerant”, he said.
Winkler tells of a specific political science class that he took which was” a pure, leftist, liberal indoctrination”. The professor described how he “would bash on Trump the entire time” and how he had worked for numerous Democratic campaigns, including the Obama campaign.
Winkler claimed that this ratio of Republicans to Democrats among professors is “definitely not representative of the students.” There are “probably still slightly more liberals than conservatives on campus” when it comes to students. But it’s pretty close to 50/50″.
He said his fellow students should not” just be conservative in identity and name ,]but ] learn why you’re conservative, and fight for those beliefs, and do so in a way that is respectful and promotes civil discourse”.
Other Fix analyses in recent years have revealed that Democrats can be the dominant force in even red state universities. For instance, according to The Fix, Democrats are 28 to 1 more popular than Republicans at the University of Arizona.
At the University of Oklahoma, 6 out of 13 humanities departments appear to lack a Republican professor. At Ohio State University, Democrats have a ratio of 7 to 1 professors compared to Republicans.
Meanwhile, the ratio is 16 to 1 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To protect the identities of Republican professors, The Fix has chosen to refrain from publishing its spreadsheet of specific names.
There are 258 unique professors and another seven who teach in two departments, for a total of 265. Of those six who teach in multiple departments, three voted Democrat, two voted Republican, and one is nonpartisan.
Breakdown:
Anthropology:
Republicans: 3
Democrats: 8
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 6
Total: 17
Classics:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 2
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 6
Total: 9
Intercultural Studies and Comparative Literature:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 4
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 6
Total: 11
English:
Republicans: 0
Democrats: 18
Nonpartisan: 2
Unknown: 13
Total: 33
Geography:
Republicans: 2
Democrats: 11
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 9
Total: 22
History:
Republicans: 0
Democrats: 12
Nonpartisan: 1
Unknown: 11
Total: 25
Linguistics:
Republicans: 2
Democrats: 11
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 12
Total: 25
Philosophy:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 5
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 6
Total: 12
Political Sciences:
Republicans: 4
Democrats: 10
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 15
Total: 31
Psychology:
Republicans: 2
Democrats: 12
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 26
Total: 42
Religion:
Republicans: 0
Democrats: 6
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 6
Total: 12
Sociology:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 10
Nonpartisan: 0
Unknown: 8
Total: 19
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