Chart 1, showing faculty political views are mostly left or far left (using ‘Democrat’ and ‘Republican’ as proxy for ‘more left’ and ‘more right’). E.g., Sociology has 43 Democrats for every Republican, and Religion departments have 70 Democrats for every Republican.
Chart 2, from Higher Education Research Institute‘s survey of faculty: 80% of faculty say training social activists was their high priority. The ‘money’ paragraph:
Putting the two charts together:
Cause: Over 90% of university faculty are left and 80% think creating social activists is their job.
Effect: Left social activism spills out of the universities and into the broader culture.
Related: The near-in-history intellectual roots of the social activist university:
And the deeper intellectual history of the social-activist university: