ANALYSIS: Traditional academics claim that higher education’s legacy of liberal bias is also significant.
Give any indication that you might be traditional ( for example, if you attend a Christian college ), and there is a chance you won’t be hired as a doctor.
According to a story relating to a University of North Carolina professor just on X, that’s what happened to one researcher at an unknown school.
The event was shared by Associate Dean and Philosophy Professor David Decosimo in the UNC Chapel Hill as a reminder that prejudice against liberal academics is still a serious issue in higher education.
” Over the past ten years, education has been making blatant discrimination against liberals.” Progs had almost certainly do anything to resign us if we were to find employment,” he wrote on Monday.
Decosimo referenced a school incident where a qualified candidate was turned down because he “might” oppose abortion without giving any names.
A prospect was unanimously chosen by a search commission for a junior position. He had excellent qualifications and publications that were far above the norm. A doctor argued in the department vote that he had attended a Catholic university before getting his Ivy PhD.
She claimed that because he had attended that Catholic school, he was good pro-life and didn’t belong in the office. She received a lot to cast a ballot alongside her. They preferred hiring a millennial professor who *might* be pro-life over a failed search andamp; the risk of losing a range.
— David Decosimo ( @DavidDecosimo ) June 9, 2025
According to Decosimo,” this was in viewpoint,” which may be the least intellectually dishonest humanities discipline.
He wrote the article in response to a New York Times article about a democratic teacher at Muhlenberg College who claims she was fired for making “pro-Palestinian speech.”
Decosimo argued that Professor Maura Finkelstein should not have been fired just for saying “anti-Zionist stuff,” but that faculty who hold conservative views should also be punished.
“… this thing has been far, far worse, and widespread against those of us who are not on the remaining for years.” The leaders at NYT andamp; were pleased with that. Worse, his colleagues have been complicit and motionless, he wrote.
Robert George, a vocal liberal professor at Princeton University, wrote on X that Decosimo “is straight, alas” to confirm this.
For the past 15 years, The College Fix has been gathering data on this discrimination.
For instance, The Fix reported last year how an academic journal rejected an essay about contraception that it immediately accepted because the author was a “white” “male” who backs the pro-life placement.
A previous Johns Hopkins University professor who now works for the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute sued Sage Journals for retracting three articles according to what he called “blatant double norms.”
Another College Fix analysis has revealed significant political disparities among college faculty, including in red state like departments-lack-any-gop-faculty/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Georgia and Florida, as well as in departments that are thought to be less polarized like math and engineering.
The Fix’s Cancel Culture Database also tracks yet more instances of discrimination. This year’s examples include a Harvard professor telling faculty to quit if they oppose “gender-affirming attention” and UCLA learners protesting a professor for using race-based admissions procedures.
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