Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn't that a problem?

After I posed that question, two faculty railed against me. That's a sure sign that universities should address the lack of ideological diversity.

Eugene, Ore. (By Dan Lawton, The Christian Science Monitor) - When I began examining the political affiliation of faculty at the University of Oregon, the lone conservative professor I spoke with cautioned that I would "make a lot of people unhappy."

Though I mostly brushed off his warning – assuming that academia would be interested in such discourse – I was careful to frame my research for a column for the school newspaper diplomatically.

The University of Oregon (UO), where I study journalism, invested millions annually in a diversity program that explicitly included "political affiliation" as a component. Yet, out of the 111 registered Oregon voters in the departments of journalism, law, political science, economics, and sociology, there were only two registered Republicans.