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With Cornell University being ranked the 4th most liberal university in the US, how stable is funding normally?

by belorn 2y ago

techpineapple 2y ago
What does “fourth most liberal university” even mean? They teach communism extra hard over capitalism?
- belorn 2y ago
  Political data analytics firm Crowdpac (https://www.crowdpac.com/about https://www.crowdpac.com/about). The data I randomly looked at was reported from https://www.thecornellreview.org/cornell-is-4th-most-liberal-college-as-measured-by-faculty-political-donations/ https://www.thecornellreview.org/cornell-is-4th-most-liberal... It is always hard to measure political affiliations by organizations. If you think they are wrong and that Cornell should be defined as a conservative university, or neither, I would read that. Do you? As for how it relate to the question, the political affiliation of universities are a known factor when account for research bias in studies. While the findings are usually not incorrect, as a matter of fact, results has a tendency to align with political views. A part of the theory that explains why such bias exist is that universities/countries tend to fund research which align with their view of the world. Meta studies that compare findings from different countries often has to account for this when trying to make sense of conflicting results, especially when comparing US vs China. You also get this effect when comparing results from different time periods.
PaulHoule 2y ago
Back in the 1990s Cornell had three conservative newspapers and I regularly remember seeing speakers like P.J. O'Rourke and Dan Horowitz. Of course we had Pataki as Governor in New York back then. I came to Cornell in 1993 and felt really out of place and got interested in the far left and teamed up with my friend Harel to get all the left-wing organizations pulling in the same direction. Other people formed "Progressives United" which completed our work. Interestingly I learned a lot of lessons that "woke" people haven't: I got a real talking-to from some black nationalists about how my vanguardism was bullshit so I found that making people your "allies" is about listening to them and being supportive of them over a long period of time and not about adding a stripe to your flag or another letter to an acronym. When I started we were really afraid of conservative organizations because they had a counter-protest every time we had a protest. As it turned out my wife-to-be and one of my best friends were members of the Cornell Republicans but that group fell apart because of the antics of Donald Wagda who was trained at the Leadership Institute in how to be like one of Nixon's plumbers. In the last two years I think labor militancy has been the interesting theme at Cornell. Dining hall workers have gone on strike and I've seen the trade unions that Cornell doesn't work with, particularly the glaziers, out and about with a giant inflatable rat. Grad students formed a union a year and a half ago and just signed a contract. TCAT bus drivers almost went on strike. As for the Gaza protests Cornell hasn't had anything like Columbia. Last year there was an encampment on the arts quad https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112437028728530911 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112437028728530911 which was really pretty polite and they never did anything that disrupted classes. There was an incident where students disrupted a job fair, they were dealt with reasonably harshly (suspension, one has just left the country.)

With Cornell University being ranked the 4th most liberal university in the US, how stable is funding normally?

by belorn 2y ago

With Cornell University being ranked the 4th most liberal university in the US, how stable is funding normally?

techpineapple 2y ago

What does “fourth most liberal university” even mean? They teach communism extra hard over capitalism?

belorn 2y ago
Political data analytics firm Crowdpac (https://www.crowdpac.com/about https://www.crowdpac.com/about). The data I randomly looked at was reported from https://www.thecornellreview.org/cornell-is-4th-most-liberal-college-as-measured-by-faculty-political-donations/ https://www.thecornellreview.org/cornell-is-4th-most-liberal... It is always hard to measure political affiliations by organizations. If you think they are wrong and that Cornell should be defined as a conservative university, or neither, I would read that. Do you? As for how it relate to the question, the political affiliation of universities are a known factor when account for research bias in studies. While the findings are usually not incorrect, as a matter of fact, results has a tendency to align with political views. A part of the theory that explains why such bias exist is that universities/countries tend to fund research which align with their view of the world. Meta studies that compare findings from different countries often has to account for this when trying to make sense of conflicting results, especially when comparing US vs China. You also get this effect when comparing results from different time periods.

PaulHoule 2y ago

Back in the 1990s Cornell had three conservative newspapers and I regularly remember seeing speakers like P.J. O'Rourke and Dan Horowitz. Of course we had Pataki as Governor in New York back then. I came to Cornell in 1993 and felt really out of place and got interested in the far left and teamed up with my friend Harel to get all the left-wing organizations pulling in the same direction. Other people formed "Progressives United" which completed our work. Interestingly I learned a lot of lessons that "woke" people haven't: I got a real talking-to from some black nationalists about how my vanguardism was bullshit so I found that making people your "allies" is about listening to them and being supportive of them over a long period of time and not about adding a stripe to your flag or another letter to an acronym. When I started we were really afraid of conservative organizations because they had a counter-protest every time we had a protest. As it turned out my wife-to-be and one of my best friends were members of the Cornell Republicans but that group fell apart because of the antics of Donald Wagda who was trained at the Leadership Institute in how to be like one of Nixon's plumbers. In the last two years I think labor militancy has been the interesting theme at Cornell. Dining hall workers have gone on strike and I've seen the trade unions that Cornell doesn't work with, particularly the glaziers, out and about with a giant inflatable rat. Grad students formed a union a year and a half ago and just signed a contract. TCAT bus drivers almost went on strike. As for the Gaza protests Cornell hasn't had anything like Columbia. Last year there was an encampment on the arts quad https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112437028728530911 https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112437028728530911 which was really pretty polite and they never did anything that disrupted classes. There was an incident where students disrupted a job fair, they were dealt with reasonably harshly (suspension, one has just left the country.)