The 90% dominance of the Left in universities

Since the 1960s there has been a political imbalance in universities in the British Isles and North America.  It is an imbalance in which the left is predominant and an imbalance which has been increasing, decade after decade.

In 2017 the Adam Smith Institute published a report on British universities titled Lackademia: why do academics lean left?

There have also been reports on academics in American universities and colleges and in fact the imbalance on both sides of the Atlantic follows the same general pattern.  That is one reason why it is worth keeping an eye on the current position in America.  Another is that there is some interchange with academics crossing in both directions.

A recent investigation by a conservative website, The College Fix, used an interesting technique to assess the imbalance in universities across the USA.

They looked at data collected by the Federal Elections Commission from employees who named their employer as a university and so were able to compare universities and states.  The data included lecturers, faculty, professors, administrators, librarians and other employees.

Florida is a good example to look at because politically it is fairly balanced between Republicans and Democrats.  In the 2016 presidential race Donald Trump took 49% of the vote and Hilary Clinton took 48%.  In 2020 Trump increased his vote share to 51% with Joe Biden taking 48%.

So how did the seven largest universities in a politically balanced state fare in terms of donations to the two parties?

In the past two years nearly 89% of political donations from faculty members in the seven Florida universities were given to the Democrats with just 10.6% going to Republicans - roughly 90% and 10%.

In Ohio the percentage of political donations that went to the Democrats was even higher at 92% and in Pennsylvania it was 96%.

The long march of the Left through the corridors of academia continues unabated.