The Slowing of Higher Education's Liberal Slide

The ideological beliefs held by faculty and administrators of America's colleges and universities have been lopsidedly left for decades. This liberal dominance is a huge problem for higher education as it has limited viewpoint diversity, diminished unpopular ideas, and inhibited honest discourse which is the hallmark of a real and robust liberal education.

But the release of new data from UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) on our nation's professoriate offers good news and hope for the future. It appears that the sharp political shift of university faculty to the left, visible over the past three decades, has stalled. While a liberal dominance still exists, the new HERI data show that the numbers have not worsened over the past three years.