Looking Like Arm of Democrat Party. Ivy League Professors, Staff Donated Mostly to Dems in 2014

The Daily Signal reports:

At Harvard University, where employees donated more than $1 million–tops among Ivy League schools–the university earned the designation of “heavy hitter” from OpenSecrets.org.

The Democratic National Committee was the biggest beneficiary at five of the eight schools.

Historic explanations for political leanings of academics are complex. But not too long ago, academia was more ideologically balanced.

In a 1998-99 survey by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, just 47.5 percent of university professors identified themselves as “liberal” or “far left.” By the 2007-08 academic year that had increased to 55.8 percent, and in the 2010-2011 study, 62.7 percent of American professors identified themselves that way.

“Once you sort of get a department above 50 percent (in ideology), they’ll tend to keep people out who oppose them,” said Daniel Klein, an economics professor at George Mason University in Virginia who has published his research on the subject in a paper, “Groupthink in Academia: Majoritarian Departmental Politics and the Professional Pyramid.”

Beneficiaries of big government tend to remember who their patrons are.