WASHINGTON, January 22, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A poll of Ivy League university professors in the U.S. has found that only one per cent want a legal ban on abortion. The disturbing results of the recent poll by Luntz Research Associates found that 84 per cent of the professors supported Al Gore in the elections, with only 9 per cent supporting President Bush. Only one of five professors attended religious services at least once a week. Forty-eight percent said they rarely or never attended a religious service.
Analyzing the data, writer Maggie Gallagher warns, “academia has as rigid a hierarchy of status as the military, and a handful of top schools not only set the tone for the nation’s academics, but they also train and influence the next generation of American leaders . Ideological uniformity is dangerous to the primary intellectual mission of any university: the pursuit of knowledge. How much will professors of (look at the list)—government, political science, law, philosophy, social sciences, economics, sociology—overlook and fail to explore if their work takes place in a relatively insular, parochial intellectual community, free from radically competing points of view?”
Zero per cent of the professors polled identified themselves as conservative. Six percent said they were somewhat conservative, 23 percent were moderates, 30 percent somewhat liberal and 34 percent liberal, with a margin of error of 8 percent.
See Gallagher’s article at: https://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ucmg/20020121/cm/ivy-covered_bias_1.html