College faculty are ‘only slightly less left-leaning’ than Bernie Sanders

Published June 10, 2026 4:00pm ET | Updated June 11, 2026 10:15am ET



College faculty members are only slightly less radical than Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a new study commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has found. 

The May 28 study cross-references over 100,000 faculty members with over 850 million state and federal campaign contributions. David M. Primo, the author of the study, found that the average ideology score of faculty donors was -1.02. Sanders’s score, in comparison, is -1.14.

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