Students hoping to hear from a Republican professor in the philosophy, classics, and history department are likely going to be disappointed at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
That is because there does not appear to be any Republican professors in those departments. The same goes for the studio art, art history, and American Studies departments, according to research conducted by The College Fix.
The Fix looked up professors’ political party affiliations using the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ Voter Search tool.
The Fix identified affiliations of 239 of the 333 professors across 11 departments at the public university. Most of the departments were humanities, although economics was also included. The entire breakdown can be found at the end of the article.
Of those 239, The Fix only found six Republicans. In contrast, 203 identified professors are Democrats. Another 30 are unaffiliated while 88 were unidentified. Some of the professors are registered as “unaffiliated” but regularly voted Republican or Democrat. In those cases, The Fix picked the party they usually voted for in the primaries. The ratio of Democrats to Republicans works out to about 34 to 1. […]
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