Administrators, Not Academics, Drive Leftward Bias on Campuses

Political bias is a fact of life on college campuses, one that has erupted with growing fierceness in recent years.

Partisan fault-lines are sharper now too. Most conservative-leaning Americans have lost esteem for American higher education’s impact on the nation, according to a Pew survey last year—while most liberals still see them as a positive force in public life. The lefty professoriate, right-wingers tend to believe, bears outsize influence on college kids. They are correct that a leftward bias persists on campus. But they’re wrong about its source.