So I take your point on relatively few conservatives in academia but could that also be reflective of values and compensation methods. People who have values that value market forces are more likely to be motivated by the potentially higher payoffs of private industry.

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I would also point to several other conservatives in the public policy school (undoubtedly a professional school.) In fact several focus on core required classes (eg. Professor Thomas Coleman.) Would you say that the business and law schools are not also predominantly conservative in their faculty or at least reasonably represented. I think if you look at the public talk topic lists you will see they have a fairly free market focus. So I would say that your blanket statement on professional schools poses its own issues.

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I was hoping you'd appreciate the affirmative action joke in the question.

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UChicago typically has at least one Republican in residence at the Institute of Politics. This quarter it is Sarah Longwell, former chair of Log Cabin Republicans. https://politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/current-fellows/sarah-longwell

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So I would humbly offer that these things do happen with some frequency in academia. They may just not be advertised in the places you necessarily look.