Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities

Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities

Academia has a diversity problem, and people are starting to notice.

Oh, it’s not a race/gender diversity problem; academia has paid a lot of attention to that.

It’s a political diversity problem.

One person raising alarms is Tennessee’s former governor, Phil Bredesen — a Democrat.



Bredesen recently flagged research he’d done that showed virtually all (over 90%) of Tennessee faculty members’ political donations have gone to Democrats.

How long, he asked, can such overwhelmingly blue higher-ed command political support, or even legitimacy, in a deep-red state like Tennessee (where more than 64% of voters went for Trump in the last election)? Good question.

It’s not just Tennessee. In the 2022 election cycle, 93% of donations by professors nationwide went to Democrats; just 7% went to Republicans, per a study of educators’ donations done by Data Orbital for the Education Freedom Institute.

By contrast, 51% of the votes in that election went to Republicans. That’s quite a gap.


In an ideal world, of course, it wouldn’t really matter: Faculty members’ political views shouldn’t have much, if anything, to do with how they teach English literature, or anthropology, or chemistry.

But, of course, they do.

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