ANALYSIS: Zero Republicans found in English, anthropology, economy, and anthropology agencies
According to a College Fix study, Democrats professors at the University of Florida appear to outnumber Democrats by seven to one.
Secondly, The Fix could not get any Democrat professors in four sections.
Out of 325, The Fix found 236 party-affiliated faculty based on voter registration information for its investigation. Of those 236, 161 were Democrats and 21 were Democrat, while 54 were listed with third parties, separate, or no party associations. Through a request for public data, The Fix obtained voter registration names from Alachua County.
Of the 236 political connections found, 9 percentage of faculty who are registered to vote are Republicans, while 68 percentage are Democrats, according to the study. In other words, the amount is about seven Liberals for every one Republican.
The Fix analyzed 11 departments and schools within the public school: the English, anthropology, economics, political science, science, sex, gender, and women’s studies, archaeology, and selling departments, and the schools of art and modern world institute, music, and theater and dance.
Out of the 11 that The Fix looked at, the English, sociology, economy, and anthropology agencies did not appear to have any Democrat faculty.
Graduate student teaching assistants and teacher emeriti were the only people who were included in the research, along with associate professors and associate professors from each department. The Fix cross-referenced against public knowledge, such as curriculum vitae and study papers, to suit names with licenses. Another information, including estimated delivery time, was matched against holiday information included in the election data.
To guard their privacy and prevent double counting, professors who teach in several departments were merely counted again in their main area of study. As faculty are listed in one department but does teach courses under another key, there may be crossover in some departments.
Political science professor Patricia Sohn shared her views on the study with The College Fix in a new message. She is one of only two Republican professors identified by The Fix in her office.
Sohn cited the university’s standing as “respecting freedom of speech, and academic liberty.” She told The Fix she used to be a Democrat and, for many years, was an Independent.
The South’s Democratic Party is more liberal than the North, according to the report. So, some of the figures you are seeing most likely do n’t account for all the political viewpoints I see on campus,” she said.
” I even think some faculty members are more conservative than they’d like to admit, perhaps in a moderate way. All in all, I think that we have a more solid diversification across the political range on my college — and others that I have visited for meetings, etc., — than the amounts suggest”, Sohn told The Fix.
Sohn emphasized that she represents her school in speaking and that she is” not an expert in British politicians— just a member on this count.”
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David Siroky, another Republican in the department, expressed skepticism about the findings in response to The Fix.
In a recent email, Siroky wrote,” When looking into such issues, it is helpful to have more numbers at hand that you have provided, and also be familiar with Simpson’s paradox,” and you will immediately recognize some issues that must be taken into account when weighing the issue of partisan registration/ideology.
According to an” Encyclopedia of Philosophy” entry at Stanford University, the paradox that Siroky referred to is” a statistical phenomenon where an association between two variables in a population emerges, disappears, or reverses when the population is divided into subpopulations.”
The Fix also emailed the chairs of the departments where it appears there are no Republican professors, and repeatedly phoned the university media relations office for communication. It also emailed the university press office.
Boise State University Professor Scott Yenor told The Fix in an email this week that the findings align with similar investigations of other universities ‘ faculty. The political scientist examines DEI in Republican-controlled Florida and Alabama.
According to research, the political science professor said,” Some disciplines like communication and sociology have ratios of one conservative for every 200 faculty member.” ” In order to find conservative faculty members, researchers actually just call up one particularly famous conservative, sociologist, and ask him to tell them about friends that he might have who share his views.
” That is how rare conservatives are in many disciplines, “he told The Fix.
Yenor said the situation can be changed, but it must be an intentional effort.
As Yale Law School has recently made an effort to hire conservatives, so could other disciplines where conservatives can be found. But other disciplines are nearly without conservatives. Nothing can be done in those circumstances except, perhaps, to take the disciplines off the university, “he said.
North Carolina State University, one of the recent Fix analysis sites, had no recognizable Republican professor professor in any of its seven humanities departments.
Additionally, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has six humanities departments without any identifiable Republicans. In total, there are 203 identified Democrats compared to just six Republicans, The Fix reported.
Similarly, there are six humanities departments at University of Oklahoma without any Republican professors, according to a review of 13 majors in total, another recent Fix analysis found.
Similar outcomes have been reported with faculty political donations in a recent study conducted by College Fix. 98 percent of federal funds went to Democrats, according to a 2020 analysis of University of Wisconsin professors.
Since January 2023, Donald Trump has received about$ 272 in campaign donations from Brown University faculty and staff, according to another recent analysis by the , Brown Daily Herald.
To protect their identities, The Fix does not publish its spreadsheet of professors ‘ political affiliations.
Breakdown:
English Department
Dem: 23
Rep: 0
Unaffiliated: 4
Unknown: 6
Sociology Department
Dem: 10
Rep: 0
Unaffiliated: 4
Unknown: 4
Economics Department
Dem: 6
Rep: 0
Unaffiliated: 1
Unknown: 11
Political Science Department
Dem: 20
Rep: 2
Unaffiliated: 9
Unknown: 9
Chemistry Department
Dem: 24
Rep: 4
Unaffiliated: 11
Independent: 1
Unknown: 21
Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Dem: 5
Rep: 0
Unaffiliated: 1
Coalition with a Purpose Party: 1
Unknown: 4
Anthropology Department
Dem: 13
Rep: 0
Unaffiliated: 5
Unknown: 3
Marketing Department
Dem: 5
Rep: 2
Unaffiliated: 2
Unknown: 6
School of Art and Digital Worlds Institute
Dem: 17
Rep: 1
Unaffiliated: 6
Unknown: 13
School of Music
Dem: 24
Rep: 11
Unaffiliated: 7
Unknown: 4
School of Theatre and Dance
Dem: 15
Rep: 1
Unaffiliated: 2
Unknown: 8
MORE: There are no Republican professors in Florida State University’s six departments.
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