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Yale Achieves Academic Nirvana: Study Cannot Find A Single Republican Donor on the Faculty
jonathanturley ^ | 01 15 2026 | Jonathan Turley

Posted on 01/16/2026 9:26:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Yale University has finally achieved the academic version of Nirvana, a state of perfect peace and enlightenment. A recent study found that the faculty had finally purged every Republican donor from its ranks. While 98 percent of the political donations went to Democrats, not a single professor could be found who gave to a single Republican candidate. The complete lock for Democrats is in a country that is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats.

The Yale Daily News reviewed more than 7,000 Federal Election Commission filings from 2025 listing Yale as the employer: “Of 1,099 filings that included ‘professor’ in their occupation, 97.6 percent of the donations went to Democrats, while the remaining 2.4 percent went to independent candidates or groups,” the student newspaper reported Jan. 14.”

The study reinforces the recent Buckley Institute report, which found that, of the 43 departments surveyed, 27 entire departments contained zero Republican professors.

Even if the study missed a couple of donations, the radical imbalance is a reflection of the lack of diversity at the school. It is not a perfect point of comparison. There can be a conservative or libertarian faculty member who does not make donations and does not register with any party.

Moreover, those of us who have criticized the lack of diversity have not argued for partisan criteria in faculty appointments. Rather, these are metrics that help show the lack of diversity. Many scholars prefer to dismiss these criticisms as speculative or unproven. However, the problem has long been obvious and these studies reinforce what critics have said for years.

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KEYWORDS: donors; republicans; yale

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1 posted on 01/16/2026 9:26:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The overlords of the left have even given up on the token controlled resistance rouse. I have to say I admire their honesty here.


2 posted on 01/16/2026 9:34:17 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: yesthatjallen

All Federal Grants and scholarships, loans etc should be stopped until there is balance in the faculty.


3 posted on 01/16/2026 9:42:35 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: yesthatjallen

What republican would give to them. So what? Let them wallow in their own liberal crap. Don’t hire their graduates.


4 posted on 01/16/2026 9:51:09 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: yesthatjallen; Honorary Serb; Fai Mao; j.havenfarm; packagingguy; Does so; cpdiii; Ancesthntr; ...

5 posted on 01/16/2026 9:53:04 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: yesthatjallen

There might be some hidden Republican over there.
But if he is, he is so scared to ever donate or even register as Rep.
The commies would swiftly punish him!


6 posted on 01/16/2026 9:53:30 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: yesthatjallen

How islamic of them.


7 posted on 01/16/2026 9:57:46 AM PST by JZelle
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To: Albion Wilde

Stanford.
Andy Grove is rolling over in his grave.


8 posted on 01/16/2026 10:02:33 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

At least Stanford still houses the Claremont Institute, where some of its Fellows are Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, and Condoleezza Rice.

Think of poor Benjamin Franklin. He founded the University of Pennsylvania, even before the U.S. or her Constitution.


9 posted on 01/16/2026 10:09:21 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’m an Independent!

And where is MIT on this list—I’m SB MIT and PhD Harvard.

The very Republican Taft family had a deep relationship with Yale. For example:

https://physics.yale.edu/news/horace-dwight-taft-1925-1983

However, more recently it was the clintons who were the most famous Yalie politicians!


10 posted on 01/16/2026 10:10:00 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

That seems as good a solution as any available. If I were picked as a future employer(& I won’t be) I sure wouldn’t hire one of them.


11 posted on 01/16/2026 11:39:50 AM PST by oldtech
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