Republican State Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa
Credit: AP/Charlie Neibergall
A Republican state senator in Iowa has proposed legislation that would impose an ideological litmus test on hires at state universities to bring “partisan balance” to higher education. Professors and others seeking employment at Iowa state universities would have their party affiliation disclosed on a job application.
Authored by Sen. Mark Chelgren, R-Ottumwa, the bill would prevent a university from hiring a person whose political party affiliation “on the date of hire” would cause “the percentage of faculty belonging to one political party exceed by 10 percent of the percentage of faculty belonging to the other political party.” Iowa’s secretary of state would be required to provide voter registration lists to the colleges so that administrations could identify and tally the number of Democratic and Republican voters on staff. Those who do not identify with a party can avoid the litmus test.
“I’m under the understanding that right now they can hire people because of diversity,” Chelgren said. “They want to have people of different thinking, different processes, different expertise. So […]
Nutty for sure. I think there has been an unwritten ideological rigged culture in favor of blue NOT-SEES for a great many university selections for many decades. This is just the latest idiotic attempt to apply polarity filters. The good news is it has come out into the light of day to be codified. This is also the bad news! I gave up on the university education system a long time ago..because it is a farce..unfortunately it was a couple of diplomas too late!
Brought to you by the shamelessly hypocritical slimy folks (ideologically, spiritually) who insisted on misshapen Jewish quotas; sued, were in uproar over “unfair” affirmative action; will Lynch, starve, poison whole populations & ruin land & water to hide & protect THEIR handout; McCarthy Era anyone?