The Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey reported asking more than 1,100 faculty members across the U.S. who they plan to support.
It found that 78% said they plan to vote for Harris and Walz. Eight percent said they plan to vote for Trump and Vance.
Inside Higher Ed reports that according to most faculty, their personal politics do not affect their research or teaching very much.
All in on the Left
Spencer Brown is the chief communications officer for Young America's Foundation. He tells AFN the outnumbering here is not surprising.
"If you look at the faculty administration, basically everyone in charge of higher education today at a majority of schools is fully aligned with the Left, and I would say is aligned with the far Left. When you look at the encampments that were allowed last semester, if you look at the way that they treat conservative students and conservative speakers
and even just the presence of conservative ideas on a campus, they're so hostile to the other side. It is because these universities are dominated by those who are monolithically on the left."
While these are kids who don't know how the world works, Brown says the "growing up" part may never happen.
"Yeah, I think the conventional wisdom for a long time was that once these students got away from universities where sort of these departments are run by these leftist radicals, that they would sort of enter the real world and would grow up and realize that high taxes are not a good thing. Then they want government out of the way and would become more sort of freedom- and family-minded,” Brown said.
Indoctrination isn't temporary
Too often that type of post-campus transformation hasn’t occurred.
“We’ve seen I think especially just in the last five to 10 years, that instead of growing up, once they hit the so-called real world, these leftist students and activists actually just force their will on the real world instead of the other way around,” Brown said.
“He added that's why he thinks groups like Young America's Foundation are so important. It is a way to introduce conservative ideas to these young people who otherwise may never even hear conservative ideas. Maybe those ideas will take root later in their lives.”
