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Perspective

Oct. 29, 2010

No Affirmative Action for Conservatives

Is there a lack of intellectual diversity among our nation's faculty members? By Timothy A. Canova of Chapman University School of Law.

By Timothy A. Canova

In his recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, my colleague Richard Redding argues that there is a lack of intellectual diversity among faculty members at America's colleges and universities. He claims that political correctness in faculty hiring has taken the form of preferences for demographic diversity based on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, resulting in far more liberals than conservatives on faculties....

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