by Jaryn Crouson
According to the Inside Higher Ed/Hanover Research survey published on Monday, almost 80% of university lecturers support the Democratic presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.
Only 8% of surveyed faculty members expressed support for former President Donald Trump, while 78% expressed support for Vice President Kamala Harris. vote can be seen. More than half of respondents said their politics were “somewhat” or “much” more left-wing than students on their campus.
Half of those surveyed said they planned to donate to the campaign, with 67% of Democrats and 16% of Republicans expressing this intention. Almost all respondents declared that they planned to vote in the November presidential elections choice.
Although 15% of GOP poll respondents expressed support for Harris-Walz’s ticket, few or no Democrats said they supported Trump and Vance, according to the poll. Most respondents said they felt at least “somewhat” concerned about the situation campus climate in connection with the upcoming elections.
University faculty have veered overwhelmingly to the left politically in recent years – in 2017, just 6% of “student-facing” administrators identified themselves as conservative, while 71% identified themselves as “liberal” or “very liberal.” According to to The New York Times. There was only one at the University of Virginia Republican faculty member for every 24 Democrats, According to to the April report of the National Association of Scholars.
Just under one-third of faculty surveyed in the fresh survey said they planned to discuss the upcoming election with students in the classroom, with 20% saying they planned to discuss the election one-on-one with students and 78% saying they planned to encourage students to vote . Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans in affirmative responses.
Most respondents also agreed that politicians were largely responsible for increased tensions on campus over speech, with 66% saying this was the case and 37% saying that university boards and administrators were to blame. Few blamed students, faculty and staff.
The survey was conducted from September 16 to October 4 and covered 1,100 university lecturers from all over the country with a margin of error of 2.9%.
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Jaryn Crouson is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Kamala Harris” by Kamala Harris.
