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I don't believe that's true in the engineering or business schools.
Even in engineering and business schools, socialism is stronger than it ought to be and plays a strong role of censorship, "affirmative" action, selection of who's allowed to rise, etc. But it has less impact there, because (1) confrontation to reality and reason weakens it, (2) engineering is about control over nature, not over men, therefore politics isn't directly relevant, (3) power-mongers want to maximize their impact as such, therefore flock to other schools.
I spent about a decade getting my PhD/MS/BS in EE. I can't recall any instructors ever expressing political ideas of any sort in their official capacities, and that's both as a student and in various TA and RA positions. There must have been some side comments on politics, but I never felt any pressure associated with them.
Part of it was probably the engineering culture and personality - engineers tend to be intellectually confident and are happier disagreeing than agreeing. PC social pressure can't find a lot of purchase in such an environment.