Minding the Campus contributor and National Association of Scholars fellow Scott Gerber appeared on Cincinnati’s 700 WLW on August 14 to discuss his recent essay, “America’s Universities Are Still Shutting Out Conservative Faculty.”

Speaking with radio host Mike Allen, Gerber discussed the ideological imbalance among university faculty and the resulting hostility toward dissenting viewpoints. He pointed to surveys, including a study from the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, which found that seven in 10 faculty identify as liberal while fewer than one in 10 identify as conservative.

Gerber also turned to the University of Virginia, his alma mater, where administrators have resisted efforts by the Board of Visitors to promote viewpoint diversity. Gerber has covered this matter for some time. In June 2025, he reported that UVA administrators were stonewalling an April Board resolution calling for greater viewpoint diversity, including by delaying Board discussion of the issue and resisting calls to address the ideological imbalance among faculty.

Asked what could change the situation, Gerber put much of the responsibility on university governing boards, pointing to a National Review essay published the morning of the 700 WLW interview, “Elite Universities Reward Disgraced Leaders with Million-Dollar Soft Landings.” In it, Gerber argues that governing boards too often reward university leaders with lucrative faculty appointments and other benefits despite serious controversies surrounding their leadership. Former UVA President Jim Ryan, for example, is currently on a $1.1 million sabbatical. “The boards have to hold them accountable,” Gerber told Allen.

Allen also mentioned Gerber’s latest novel, The Trafficker, which recently won a Silver Medal from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association. Photos from the award ceremony can be found on Facebook.

The novel follows the trafficking of a 14-year-old girl and draws partly on Gerber’s experience serving on the Ohio Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. As National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood noted in his March review for Minding the Campus, Gerber uses that experience to explore the same sordid world of trafficking and wealthy clientele made infamous by Jeffrey Epstein.

You should give the interview a listen. It is available on iHeartRadio, with Gerber’s segment beginning at about the 43-minute mark.

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