Majority of faculty at four-year colleges fear losing their jobs over something they say

 Ideologically, the survey was more diverse than some other recent surveys of college faculty: Overall, half of the faculty surveyed identified as liberal, 17% identified as moderate, and just over one-quarter (26%) identified as conservative.

The percentage of professors who identified as conservative was somewhat higher than the percentages found in other recent surveys of faculty.

…more than half of the faculty respondents (52%) indicated they are worried about losing their jobs or reputations because someone misunderstands something they said or did, took it out of context, or posted something from their past online.

Among those who were very or somewhat worried, roughly one-fifth (18%) agreed that their fear of losing their jobs or reputations because of something they said or posted online was a justified price to pay to protect historically disadvantaged groups.

Significantly more non-tenured faculty (24%) than tenured/tenure-track faculty (19%) expressed being “very worried” about losing their job or reputation because someone misunderstands something they said or did, took it out of context, or posted something from their past online.

Ideological differences for this question were even more pronounced, as almost three-fourths (72%) of conservative faculty reported being “somewhat” or “very” worried.

This fear was not limited to conservative faculty, as 56% of moderate faculty, and even 40% of liberal faculty, also felt this way.

In other words, 40% of those in the dominant ideological group on campus reported being worried about losing their jobs or reputations, which speaks volumes about the climate of fear, intimidation, and censorship on campus.

The result of this fear is that conservative faculty are far more likely to self-censor.

Over half of conservative faculty (57%) indicated they self-censor often on campus, compared to a third of moderate faculty, and a fifth of liberal faculty.

Last week I wrote about a progressive professor who was turned on by a group of high school students after they were mentored by a very woke teaching assistant.

This chart from the FIRE survey supports the idea that a lot of this problem is coming from the students themselves.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/02/28/majority-of-faculty-at-four-year-colleges-fear-losing-their-jobs-over-something-they-say-n533987