From the Star Tribune:
U of M law professors reacted Wednesday to the study, conducted by the Georgetown University Law Journal and reported last weekend by the New York Times. It analyzed 11 years of federal campaign contributions by professors at 21 top law schools. It found that on average nearly one-third of the professors at the schools contributed to campaigns, and 81 percent of those contributors gave wholly or mostly to Democrats.
The U of M ranked eighth out of 18 law schools where 15 percent or more of the professors made contributions of some kind. Of those U of M professors who contributed, 85 percent gave mostly or exclusively to Democrats.
Some U of M law professors who have given money over the years to Democrats and Republicans — for federal or state races — also doubted that the findings reflect a liberal bias that shapes student attitudes.
I don’t buy into this notion that college professors are somehow indoctrinating today’s youth with their liberal bias. My college has six professors in its Political Science Department; three are liberal and three are conservative. Not one of them grades on ideology and all of them encourage debate and discussion in the classroom. My friends at other schools report similar experiences. I think the whole argument is just an anti-intellectual front, designed to discredit academia without having to confront the ideas and concepts they propose.
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