It has long been known that universities are overwhelmingly staffed by people of a left-wing persuasion, this having been shown by many surveys.
According to a report in Inside Higher Ed, a significant proportion of these collectivist professors are happy to use their positions to keep down people of dissenting views.
Academics, learning and scientific (scientific process and critical thinking) literacy, has been replaced by political activism. It’s one of the biggest threats to our country, as we now have several generations educated in this system who don’t know how to think. Another recent piece from the LA Times reported similar findings: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ellis-uc-bias-20120520,0,6773276.story
As the authors concluded: “The politicized university is an intellectually bankrupt one.”