ACADEMIA’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Big 10 Profs, Staff Lean Way Left On Campaign Cash. “Big 10 professors and administrators donated more than five times as much to Democrats as Republicans over the last 25 years, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of OpenSecrets.org data. Employees at the conference’s 14 institutions donated $18.4 million to Democrats versus $3.4 million to Republicans since 1990. University of Wisconsin professors and administrators lean furthest left.”

As the higher education bubble implodes, I think the higher education industry is going to be unhappy with the consequences of tying itself so closely to one political party.