Many posts have discussed the politics of colleges and universities in the United States.,
Ryan Quinn at Inside Higher Ed:
Of the more than 1,100 faculty members across the U.S. who responded to a new Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey, almost none said they’re sitting this presidential election out. Ninety-six percent said they plan to vote. And they overwhelmingly intend to vote for Democrats.
Seventy-eight percent support Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz, while only 8 percent of the respondents back Donald Trump and JD Vance, according to the survey, which has a 2.9 percent margin of error. But while their personal support for Democrats was overwhelming, almost no respondents said they plan to tell students which party or candidate to vote for.
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The new findings broadly echo past research showing that faculty lean left. Nearly 60 percent of respondents said they were Democrats, and the next biggest category wasn’t Republicans but rather Independents, at 22 percent. Republicans clocked in at 7 percent, not far ahead of the “other” and “prefer not to respond” categories, each at 5 percent.
In 2020, the conservative National Association of Scholars published a study of tenured and tenure-track professors at top-ranked institutions in their states, finding that about 48 percent were registered Democrats and 6 percent were Republicans. The new Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research poll was sent to a broader range of faculty members—including non-tenure-track professors—at a wider variety of institutions.
While nearly eight in 10 who responded to the new survey plan to support Harris, only 57 percent of college students expressed support for the Democratic ticket in an Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey from the last week of September. And while fewer than one in 10 faculty respondents said they plan to vote for Trump, two in 10 students said they would.
