97% of Faculty Donors at Cornell Univ. Contribute to Democrats
Because of course they do.
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97% of Faculty Donors at Cornell Univ. Contribute to Democrats
How politically diverse is the Cornell University faculty?
Not very, according to a study done by The Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper. By dollar volume, 96.62% of political donations during 2011-2014 went to Democratic candidates or related PACs, and just 2.76% to Republicans or related PACs.
By number of donors, rather than dollar amount, the contrast is even more stark.
There were only 15 faculty members who donated to Republicans, out of a total of 323 faculty donors, or less than one-half of one percent. There were a total of 1628 faculty at the university as of 2013, but there is not reason to suspect that the 323 donors are not representative of the total.
I was one of the 15, which might make me part of the smallest minority on campus.
97% of Faculty Donors at Cornell Univ. Contribute to Democrats (Legal Insurrection)
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To corroborate this, a few years ago, Mark Finkelstein, then Tompkins County Republican Chairman, ran a study of the political affiliations of Cornell and Ithaca College Faculty members. He found that about 95% of the faculty who were registered in a political party at the Tompkins County Board of Elections (and not blanks or independents) were registered as Democrats or Greens. So much for diversity of political opinion among college faculty in the Ithaca area.