HIGHER ED’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM, COMMENCEMENT-SPEAKER EDITION: Dare to Live Your (Liberal) Dream.

You Are The Future…as long as you’re liberal!

America’s leading universities are skewing left when it comes to selecting speakers to deliver commencement addresses. The Young America’s Foundation’s (YAF) 24th annual Commencement Speakers Survey analyzed graduation speakers at the country’s top 100 universities and found that 45 speakers have a track record in supporting liberal stances while only 12 conservatives have been invited to speak.

A statement from the YAF, which promotes individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values, said: “Of our country’s top 10 schools, nine speakers were liberal. As usual our nation’s brightest students will reveal one final dose of liberalism from their progressive professors and administrators before heading out into the real world.”

The YAF added that of the 12 conservative speakers, most were moderate conservatives, including former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Michigan), Oracle Founder Larry Ellison (USC) and financier Joseph Perella (Lehigh). “There were no real conservatives in the list,” said a YAF spokeswoman.

The speakers also included a large number of present and former Obama Administration cabinet members including Secretary of State John Kerry (Northeastern), Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power (Yale), Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (BC), Secretary of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell (University of Washington), former Attorney General Eric Holder (Stony Brook University) and President Obama himself.

It’s been this way for years.