One misconception about college life today is that faculty on campuses are monolithically progressive. That description comes closer to being true about college administrators, but a new survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) of almost 1,500 professors at four-year U.S. colleges and universities reveals that while faculty tend to lean to the left, ideological diversity still exists. Fifty percent of professors identify as liberal, 17 percent as moderate, and 26 percent as conservative.
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Exit poll data from the November midterm elections offered an important insight into the differences between demographics. While young men, married men, and married women all leaned toward Republicans, young, single women broke for Democrats by a massive margin.