Warnings for Williams College Conservatives: Prof Finds Lower GPAs Among Conservatives Compared to Liberals

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.

Campus Reform Media Director - Williams College Caved to Outrage Mob

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Yesterday, Cabot Phillips, the media director for Campus Reform, told Sinclair Broadcast Group he finds the Sawicki Report "disappointing" suggesting it is yet another example of an academic institution “capitulating to the outrage mob.”

“When you bow down to a group of people who are saying these ideas are offensive to us," said Phillips, "we don’t like them, keep them off campus, all you are doing is incentivizing more of that behavior in the future,” said Phillips. "If you teach students that they can be outraged and demand that certain ideas they don’t like be kept from them, they are going to go into the real world thinking that that applies outside of college."

"People think that free speech means 'I’m just here to say as many offensive things as possible and spew hate speech at you.' And free speech really has this negative stigma on college campuses. I think when universities adopt policies like the Chicago one, they are essentially saying ‘free speech is not a dirty word here, it’s something that we embrace',” said Phillips. “A college environment that is devoid of debate robs students of the opportunity to learn. Any university that’s taking steps to encourage discussion, to encourage dissenting opinions is essentially doing their job.”