PRESTOPUNDIT

Why are there so few non-left professors on campus? Here's one reason:

Every day, she used the classroom as a sounding board and she insulted the president whose policies are those of Republican lawmakers. One day she got up in front of the class and told us that the president could not be an historian and be a Republican. This hurt me very much because I am a conservative and I want to be a historian. Another time, she got up in front of the class and said that President Bush started the Iraqi war because he got a hard-on. I thought this was a very inappropriate way to be talking about the president. Instead of spending on history, my professor spends a significant amount of time lecturing on current programs of the Republicans and the president. When my peers or I tried arguing and tried to question or argue against her ideas, she ridiculed them, leaving the person feeling humiliated in front of the class. One of my more outspoken conservative peers began skipping classes because as she told the teacher, she was afraid to come to class ..

I am deeply discouraged about the idea of becoming a college professor because of what I see on campus. The severe lack of conservative faculty at my college and the way the conservative faculty is treated have led me to believe that I will have a hard time finding a position if I do decide to become a college professor. I have given serious thought about teaching at the collegiate level, but currently I do not see this as a realistic possibility until hiring and firing practices is free from discrimination.

And this:

My name is Kelly Wiest. I am an adjunct instructor in the political science department at Metro State .. I am finding that there are many students at our colleges, especially at my college, who are made to feel isolated and intimidated regarding their political opinions .. more

UPDATE: Patterico reacts: "The part that amazed me was a student describing required reading at his school: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Michael Moore."