Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives

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The Trump administration, in threatening to cut Harvard’s federal funding, demanded that the university foster greater “viewpoint diversity,” including by recruiting faculty members and students who would restore ideological balance to campus.

But a policy of hiring professors and admitting students because they have conservative views would actually endanger the open-minded intellectual environment that proponents of viewpoint diversity say they want. By creating incentives for professors and students to have and maintain certain political positions, such a policy would discourage curiosity and reward narrowness of thought.

 
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The Trump administration, in threatening to cut Harvard’s federal funding, demanded that the university foster greater “viewpoint diversity,” including by recruiting faculty members and students who would restore ideological balance to campus.

But a policy of hiring professors and admitting students because they have conservative views would actually endanger the open-minded intellectual environment that proponents of viewpoint diversity say they want. By creating incentives for professors and students to have and maintain certain political positions, such a policy would discourage curiosity and reward narrowness of thought.

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Well... Right now, on many university campuses, Harvard included, your objection is already well in play. The Left claims they want diversity of thought and then creates incentives for professors and students to maintain certain, Leftist approved, political positions. The result is discouragement of curiosity and reward of narrowness of thought.

How could injecting Rightist politics back into that make it worse other than that the Left would suddenly find their near monopoly on thought broken?

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T. A. Gardner said:
Well... Right now, on many university campuses, Harvard included, your objection is already well in play. The Left claims they want diversity of thought and then create incentives for professors and students to maintain certain, Leftist approved, political positions. The result is discouragement of curiosity and reward of narrowness of thought.
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To you, anyone who learns anything new is a crazy left wing nut. You hate education.
 
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