The Register-Guard: Does right wing mean left out? At the UO, some conservative faculty members fear that their views are shortchanged
On a campus occasionally derided as the “Berkeley of the North,” University of Oregon math professor Chris Phillips is something of an anomaly: a conservative faculty member.
He describes his politics as closer to Libertarian than Republican but acknowledges that most people on campus who know his views probably lump him into the conservative category. Thanks to tenure, he doesn’t feel he has to hide his opinions and in fact has been outspoken on some issues, most recently a proposed diversity plan and its undefined standard of “cultural competency” as a factor in hiring, promotion and tenure.
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