WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Ethan Cai is an intern at Campus Reform who has covered the free speech controversy at Williams College. In a new YouTube video, Ethan interviews Robert Maranto a political scientist from the University of Arkansas on his findings regarding the performance of conservatives at elite colleges and their interest in pursuing graduate degrees.
Basically, he finds that conservatives outperform liberals in high school, but under-perform them in college.
As Maranto points out the academic world is comfortable with libertarian conservatives, but hostile to social conservatives. There is strong data, he says, of discrimination against evangelical or fundamentalist Chistians in hiring decisions. Maranto indicates he is a Christian, but not a Trump voter. Ironically, he finds that conservatives often hide their political views from their professors, but nevertheless express satisfaction with their college experience.
Ironically, he see the biggest discrimination against conservatives is in getting their conservative articles published. At elite universities, he says prejudice is much more severe against conservative professors in hiring decisions at elite universities. He believes we have an elite academic world that is out-of-touch.
Nevertheless, he does suggest finding center-left mentors. Prior to his appointment at UA, Maranto taught at Villanova University and served in the Clinton administration and at the Brookings Institution. The video is worth viewing for campus conservatives who want to make sense of their experience at Williams College. You can Ethan on Twitter at @ethanycai.
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