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Professors Move to the Right
According to The New York Times, professors hired in large numbers during the baby boom expansion are being replaced by younger professors who are less ideologically polarized and more politically moderate.
A new study of the social and political views of American professors by Neil Gross at the University of British Columbia and Solon Simmons at George Mason University found that, "Self-described liberals are most common within the ranks of those professors aged 50-64, who were teenagers or young adults in the 1960s." The youngest group, ages 26 to 35, contains the highest percentage of moderates, some 60 percent, and the lowest percentage of liberals, just under a third.
The new generation of professors also appears less interested in effecting social change -- about 17 percent of the older faculty members are compared to only 1.3 percent in the 35 and younger age group.
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