Could you explain how having to drive from the suburbs to the campus in the middle of the ghetto turns faculty members into liberals?
The white suburban liberals who commute in to attend classes or teach at the main campus may have their inner liberal brought out by the ghetto environment.
They may feel the "pain" of the neighborhood.
My most trying challenge during my time there (I lived on campus) was not giving the "homeless" (alcohol-drug addicts)
money when they begged. I had to discipline myself to providing food and shelter because we all know where the money would have gone.
The liberal bias was there, but there were a few conservatives on campus at the time. I was not very "political" at the time because of depression and was more active in Christian student groups, broadcasting activities on campus, etc.
My liberal professors were in many cases the Kennedy-Humphrey types who may have driven a Volvo or given money to "save whales." I was able to research conservative topics when I had a mind to it including the rise of the "Moral Majority."
Its more radical now no doubt but I do slightly remember the sociology professor whose first name was Clark and who said out front that he was a "Communist." This guy said some honest things like how disgusted he was with people wearing fancy clothes and jewelry coming to him in his "poor" neighborhood to beg for food.
The guy also put in a few pitches for communist revolution ala Angela Davis and such.