The battle for the White House is over, and conservatives have declared a great reckoning will come for education. There have already been instances of returning classrooms to learning instead of indoctrination. The war, however, is not over. Institutions in higher education have steadily and somewhat stealthily packed and stacked leftist and radical professors and instructors throughout public and private colleges and universities. What many celebratory Republicans may not see is that the ideological left is exceptionally skilled at winning the long game.
What should not be a surprise is that today’s world of misinformation, disinformation, and a lack of journalistic integrity in dominant news outlets is fueled by academia’s most liberal-run departments (history, journalism, and communications) in the majority of four-year colleges. In fact, a recent article published in Econ Journal Watch indicated that more than 60% of history, journalism, and communication departments employed no registered Republicans. Does that seem a bit lopsided?
The Econ Journal article examined faculty members’ voter registration and political leanings in 40 universities, focusing on the tenure track in economics, history, journalism/communication, law, and psychology. The report found that 3,623 of the 7,243 professors were registered as Democrats, and only 314 were registered as Republicans. A thinking person might see a pattern here.
A Melting Pot Focus
One of the most upside-down institutions in terms of faculty diversity inside the classroom is the University of Arizona. The southwestern state college is breaking records in employing far lefties to teach college kids how to rage against the machine and disrupt the high-priced learning experience.
The College Fix came out with a study based on voter registration polls and discovered, “Zero Republicans [were] found in communications, classics, religious studies, sociology, and gender and women’s studies.” And that breaks down to a 28-1 ratio in 12 departments. The numbers don’t look much like a DEI place when 237,222 are Democrats, and seven are Republicans.
“The University of Arizona does not inquire about an applicant’s political affiliation, and it adheres to equal employment opportunity laws and non-discrimination policies,” UA spokesperson Mieczyslaw Zak wrote in an email.
National Association of Scholars Communications Director Chance Layton had the same outlook: “Such a strong disparity limits the possible conversations students can have on campus.”
Layton advised campuses to “do away with ‘diversity rubrics’ and ‘diversity statements’ in hiring. Professors should be hired and fired based on the quality of their work, not on their allegiance to a current leftist fad.” Oh, it gets better. The UA has a new DEI mandate going into effect in the fall of 2026 that is guaranteed not to produce a well-rounded student at graduation.
Timothy Minella, a researcher with the Goldwater Institute, requested and digested wide-ranging data sets obtained through a public records request. Among the documents were about 1,000 pages of syllabi. The courses for graduating with a DEI stamp of approval should be shocking, especially to parents. Evolution aside, in one course, ENTO 160D1 (Busy Bees and Fancy Fleas: How Insects Shaped Human History), students must learn to “live as a bug.” The eager DEI darling will create paper wings and experience the hardship of “immigrants” or people “from a different social class.”
An apoplectic Minella griped that these kids “could graduate having ‘lived like a bug,’ but without learning about the Constitution, the Civil War, or landmark Supreme Court cases.”
Education in the Stacks
A glance at a few other colleges and the amount of energy spent on what Layton called a “leftist fad” should shiver the timbers about what kind of student enters the university and exits, unable to adjust to society. Attempting to alter reality to fit a radical narrative works only with a safety net. But not all the discoveries are grim: The most radical left instructors seem to be entrenched in women’s and gender studies, and biology is going to have a say about that after picking up that sheepskin.
