Top University’s Professors Overwhelmingly Donate to Democrats Despite University’s Claim of Independence From Political Views
This perhaps should not come as a surprise, but professors at Yale University disproportionately donate to Democrat campaigns. This is according to an analysis performed by Yale Daily News and reported by Campus Reform.
According to the analysis, 97.6 percent of the 1,099 political donations from the 2025 election cycle went to Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission data.
Zero donations went to Republicans.
Yale claims that their hiring process occurs “independent of political views”, according to Campus Reform. However, 82.3 percent of the 1,666 faculty support Democrats with only 2.3 percent supporting Republicans.
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How does a hiring process that is “independent of political views” skew the numbers so drastically in favor of a specific ideology?
Yale Daily News wrote:
Carlos Eire, a history and religious studies professor who described himself as “a conservative in the traditional mold,” expressed pessimism about this imbalance.
“It’s true, there is very very, very little intellectual diversity at Yale and at most institutions of higher learning when it comes to politics,” Eire wrote in an email to the News. “Academics in the US, Canada and Europe have been leaning left for the past three or four generations. And this is something that shows no signs of being corrected or correcting itself anytime soon.”
The presence of the Buckley Institute and right-leaning parties in the Yale Political Union, Eire added, indicates that “there is less of a drastic imbalance among undergraduate students than among faculty.”
Yale Daily News also interviewed Steven Smith, a political science professor, who called this “old news” and said that, “Generally across the culture, not just in universities, on the whole, in the country, educated people vote Democrat.”
“Are we going to ask people [in] a job interview what candidates they support and who they give money to as a criterion for hiring them? I mean, are you serious?” Smith told Yale Daily News.
According to Pew Research, voters with a “college degree” vote 51% Democrat and 46% Republican. That gap expands to 61% Democrat and 37% Republican.
It seems something is afoul with the hiring process to skew entirely in one political direction compared to the rest of the nation, even in the demographic that Smith cites. This is nowhere near the composition of professors teaching at Yale, where the ratio of representation is 36:1 in favor of Democrats, according to Campus Reform.
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