BUZZ
92 percent are ‘very dissatisfied’
As Harvard University officials consider increasing “viewpoint diversity” through a handful of new hires, an overwhelming majority of faculty in the college of arts and sciences say they don’t like President Trump.
“Ninety-five percent of faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences survey said they were dissatisfied with U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, more than a year into Harvard’s battle with the White House,” the student newspaper reported.
Less than two percent said they were “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with Trump’s time in office. The student newspaper argues this is because of the administration’s frequent lawsuits and investigations into the university. (Although it is well-established the faculty at Harvard are overwhelmingly liberal).
Any potential settlement with the administration is likely to face resistance.
“Roughly 80 percent of faculty said they did not believe Harvard should attempt an agreement with Trump, up from 71 percent last year,” The Crimson reported.
Faculty across the school have also pushed back on attempts to increase viewpoint diversity. The student newspaper reported on attempts by Harvard Provost to hire 20 to 30 special track professors, representing one percent of all faculty. Even this minimal shift worried some professors, The Fix reported in April.
Subsequent polling reinforced the opposition. The College Fix reported earlier this month:
Support for the viewpoint diversity professorship “closely tracked whether respondents believed Harvard had an ideological diversity problem: 62 percent of faculty who agreed that Harvard’s faculty has a ‘troubling lack of ideological diversity’ supported the fundraising initiative, compared with just six percent of those who disagreed,” the report found.
Almost half (47 percent) of professors also said they do not believe ideological diversity is a problem at Harvard. Among conservatives, however, 64 percent said that it does.
The school has faced several high-profile cancellation attempts of right-leaning professors in the past few years.
The engineering school previously canceled a class on policing tactics following pressure from a prison abolitionist graduate student. Law school Professor Mark Ramseyer faced fire for questioning forced prostitution claims of Korean women during World War II, as The Fix reported.
The university also stood by as activist pressured forced out Carole Hooven, an evolutionary biologist who said only two sexes exist.
There are so few conservatives on campus that the student newspaper had to bring Harvey Mansfield out of retirement just to find a right-leaning scholar to write opinion pieces.
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