As Legal Insurrection recently pointed out, for Dems in 2016, it’s Hillary or bust.

Liberals in academia are no exception to Hillary mania, according to a slobbering new report from Maggie Haberman at Politico.

Hillary Clinton considering academic options

Hillary Clinton is fielding offers from colleges and universities — including Harvard and her law school alma mater, Yale — to give her a formal academic role, a move that would give her a platform outside her family’s foundation.

The approaches have ranged from offers to join faculty to starting a program in Clinton’s name to rebranding the Baruch College public policy school after the former secretary of state, three sources told POLITICO.

The advantage to Clinton of an academic platform, beyond the scope of her policy interests, could be huge for someone considering a presidential run. It would provide her with a credible backdrop for speeches and events that would take her outside of a hotel ballroom or something sponsored by her family’s foundation or another outside group.

She announced her upcoming policy areas of interest at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Chicago and gave her fiery speech about the Voting Rights Act at an American Bar Association event. Having an academic platform could be enormously valuable in that respect.

On the chance Clinton doesn’t run for president, academia would be a potential next act for her careerwise.

The schools have included the Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, New York University — where her daughter, Chelsea, has a title — and the Baruch College discussions, the sources said. One source indicated there are others as well who have approached Clinton about an academic partnership, going back to when she was still at Foggy Bottom.

Clinton adviser Maggie Williams has been engaging in the conversations, and the discussions are in a “listening” phase right now, said one source.