The lack of political diversity on campus

 Victor Davis Hanson:

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The larger landscape was that when the Trump administration came into power, they said, “My gosh, these universities are bastions, supposedly, of civil discourse, civil rights. But they’re abusing these privileges. And we’re not going to fund Columbia University, to take one example, with $400 million unless they concede to certain protections of their own students.”
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With 90% to 95% of their law or their humanities faculty openly Democratic and left-wing, there is no diversity. They have separate graduations predicated on race, separate spaces, separate dormitories.

What am I getting at? The Trump administration wants to call them to account. And they have a lot of levers that the universities, apparently—like Princeton or Columbia—don’t seem to take seriously.

They’re dependent on millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money. Why? I don’t know because they have multibillion-dollar endowments. But nonetheless, they’ve predicated their budgets on federal monies.

But the Trump administration says, “You’re not obeying the First or the Fourth or Fifth or Sixth Amendments. You’re not guaranteeing the Bill of Rights to your own students. You’re allowing antisemitism in the year 2025 as if it’s the 19th century or something. What are you doing?”

And the universities seem to ignore it.

“Well, we’ll stop people wearing masks.” They don’t. “We’ll stop antisemitism.” They don’t. Why? They seem, first of all, to be indebted to foreign students. We have about 300,000 Chinese students and maybe a quarter million from the Middle East that pay full tuition. And they’re a powerful block on campus.

In addition, we have billions of dollars from Mideast sheikdoms, like Qatar, but also China, that endow professorships. And you give a billion dollars, you can get a hundred or more, 150 fully endowed professors for a Middle East student department that can be very influential, training this country’s next generation of diplomats and civil servants and politicians.

But the university should be very careful. They have a lot of exposure. Already, the National Institutes of Health says, “We know what you’re doing. You’re on individual grants from the government. You’re charging 50%, 60%. That’s not gonna happen. Fifteen percent tops.” That’s gonna cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of their budget.
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Why are they hiring over 90 percent Democrats when they should be giving their students a more rounded program that considers other views? Currently, roughly 30 percent of Americans self-identify as Democrats. That is a major change that was reflected in Trump's win in 2024, along with giving the GOP majorities in the House and Senate.  They need to give their students a more well-rounded education.

See also:

Trump Administration Freezes $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses to Meet Demands