Nearly 80% of university faculty support the Democratic presidential candidate in the upcoming election, according to an Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research poll released Monday.
Only 8% of faculty members surveyed expressed support for former President Donald Trump, while 78% expressed support for Vice President Kamala Harris. public opinion poll is shown. More than half of respondents said their politics were “somewhat” or “much” more left-wing than students on campus.
Half of those surveyed said they planned to donate to a campaign, with 67% of Democrats and 16% of Republicans expressing that intention. Almost all of those surveyed said they planned to vote in the November presidential election.
According to the survey, 15% of Republican survey respondents expressed support for Harris-Waltz, while few Democrats claimed support for Trump and Vance. A majority of respondents said they were at least “somewhat” concerned about the climate on campus regarding the upcoming election.
A sign is placed on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 29, 2004, urging students to register to vote in the presidential election. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)
University faculty have become overwhelmingly politically left-leaning in recent years, with 71% of administrators who work with students identifying as conservative, compared to just 6% in 2017. claimed to be “liberal” or “very liberal.” According to In the New York Times. At the University of Virginia, there were only one Republican for every 24 Democrats. According to To an April report by the National Association of Scholars.
Just under a third of teachers surveyed in a new poll said they planned to discuss the upcoming election with students in class, and 20% said they planned to discuss the election one-on-one with students, 78 % said they intend to encourage students. Vote. Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans in affirmative responses.
A majority of respondents also agreed that politicians are primarily responsible for escalating tensions on campuses regarding speech, with 66% saying this was true and 37% saying their university’s board of governors The answer was that the administrator was responsible. Few blamed students or faculty. (Related article: A civil war erupts between conservatives in the United States over education. Who will win?)
The survey was conducted from September 16th to October 4th among 1,100 university instructors nationwide, and had a margin of error of 2.9%.
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