The Chronicle of Higher Ed almanac is out, and it reprints survey results on opinions and attitudes of faculty. The “political orientation” category was as expected.

Far Left 7.9%

Liberal 43.4%

Middle of the Road 29.2%

Conservative 18.8%

Far Right 0.7%

That means the Left-of-Centers more-than double the Rights (51.3 to 19.5%). I assume, too, the numbers are worse than they appear, because “Middle of the Road” on a college campus sits well to the Left of Middle of the Road in U.S. society as a whole.

Also, those numbers are for all institutions. At universities, the breakdown shifts well to the Left:

Public Private

Far Left 9.5% 9.8%

Liberal 49.5% 49.6%

Middle of the Road 26.3% 26.2%

Conservative 14.3% 14.2%

Far Right 0.4% 0.3%

Here, Left-of-Centers outnumber Rights 59% to 14.7% at public schools, 59.4% to 14.5% at private schools.