Professor values
Professor values refer to the common value system embraced by a large percentage of professors, just as Hollywood values refers to the common value system of many in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Professor values are currently one of the most prevalent forms of Liberal indoctrination.
An extremely high percentage of professors disagree with conservative principles.[1] Professors' common value system typically includes atheism, censorship, socialism, unjustified claims of expertise and knowledge (for example, the dogmatic promotion of the theory of evolution,[2] liberаl beliefs, liberal grading, liberal bias,[3] anti-patriotism, lack of productivity, bullying or discouraging conservative students (for example, homeschoolers),[4][5] and promotion of sexual immorality.[6][7] In a Zogby poll, 58% of Americans said that the bias of professors is a serious problem, while 39% said it is a "very serious" problem.[8] The survey demonstrated further that "an overwhelming majority also believe that job security for college professors leaves them less motivated to do a good job than those professors who do not enjoy a tenured status - 65% said they believe non-tenured professors are more motivated to do a good job in the classroom."[8] One study in 2008 found that "Texas university professors overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates in their campaign contributions."[9]
Professors sometimes engage in wrongdoing while completing research. "About 1,000 potential incidents of fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in scientific research go unreported every year, according to a survey that suggests such misconduct is far more prevalent than suspected. ... 22 percent was by a professor or senior scientist."[10]
Faculty boards have been known to (on multiple occasions) block the granting of a tenured professorship to candidates for tenure who:
- criticize the theory of evolution[11]
- criticize feminism
- criticize abortion
- oppose the homosexual agenda
- criticize the liberal bias in academia itself
For example, professors at Washington University wore white armbands to protest an award of an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly, a noted conservative, in an act of political partisanship and utter unprofessionalism.[12] At the University of Chicago, more than one hundred professors signed a letter to protest a proposal to honor conservative-leaning Nobel Prize-winning colleague Milton Friedman.[13]
Politicians are routinely given high-ranking academic positions. Examples include:
"Throughtout the whole wide range and diversity of human experience, with the sole exception of the West in the nineteeth and twentieth centuries, the world of nature has been alive with, and immersed within, a supernatural world which everywhere made contact with it, although was transcendent to it. It is this whole dimension of reality which the scientific age has lost the capacity to experience or know. An age such as ours which has lost a genuine capacity for knowing and responding to some great segment of reality is actually, without knowing it, in a dark age.... We really have lost a genuine capacity which the rest of mankind has possessed and actively exercised, and we have become a people trapped and in bondage within the prison of space, time, and matter....It is primarily the business of the universtiy...to maintain the imprisonment of our time. It saddens me to see a new generation being victimized by this all pervasive spirit of the epoch."[17]
References
- â "90 percent of United States professors called themselves liberal or moderate .[1]
- â For example, a $100,000 "environmental" prize was awarded for work on a politically correct "theory of convergent evolution." [2]
- â http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/08/26/johnson
- â http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032101451.html
- â http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/488/NCliberalbiasagnstcons060104.htm
- â http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2001/oct_2001_4.html
- â http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/1998/october_1998_1.html
- â 8.0 8.1 http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1334
- â http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5753471.html
- â http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aYFanemP24yM&refer=home
- â "As reported last week, two members of the department that denied tenure to astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez at Iowa State University (ISU) have publicly admitted that Gonzalez's work on intelligent design played a role in his denial of tenure." [3]
- â http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1279565§ionID=1
- â http://bourdaghs.com/blog.html?p=484
- â Beginning early in 2001, "Gore will be [at UCLA] to develop a new curriculum for family-centered community building, a multidisciplinary approach that brings together authorities from such fields as education, business and public policy to work on problems that ail our society and affect our children. ... He also will be teaching at three other universities - Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro and Fisk University in Nashville - in addition to his teaching and research work at UCLA." [4]
- â Downer is so pro-abortion that, as Foreign Minister of Australia, he "asked for a review of the government's ban on funding for abortion services in other countries."[5]
- â Blair was given a prestigious visiting lectureship.
- â Faith and Knowledge, Douglas Sloan, Westminster John Knox Press, 1994, ISBN 0664228666, ISBN 9780664228668, 272 pages, page 194
Sources
Links
Liberal-education.com A user created list of professors with liberal bias, highlighting examples of liberal bias in the classroom.