{"id":1574072,"date":"2022-07-27T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1574072"},"modified":"2022-07-27T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:22:48","slug":"poll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Americans Lose Confidence in Predominantly Left-Leaning Colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1574072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans who say universities are leading America in a positive direction has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/americans-confidence-in-higher-ed-drops-sharply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped<\/a> 14 points in the last two years, according to a survey released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Varying Degrees, an annual survey released by the left-leaning New America think tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/education-policy\/reports\/varying-degrees-2022\/findings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> just over half of Americans, 55 percent, say higher education has a positive influence on the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/education-policy\/reports\/varying-degrees-2020\/findings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">down<\/a> from 69 percent in 2020. While Republicans showed the greatest drop, plummeting from 61 percent in 2020 to 37 percent in 2022, self-identified Democrats&#8217; confidence in colleges also declined 7 points.<\/p>\n<p>Elite universities have been the subject of numerous controversies related to their ideological posturing. Georgetown\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/how-georgetown-law-school-used-ilya-shapiros-apology-against-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/how-georgetown-law-school-used-ilya-shapiros-apology-against-him\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659027567372000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3w5hOcSb8YlUiwLTgnSD2l\">sanctioned<\/a> law professor Ilya Shapiro following his criticism of President Joe Biden for appointing a Supreme Court justice on the basis of race. Princeton University <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/double-jeopardy-princeton-prepares-to-axe-star-professor-who-raised-hell-over-woke-lunacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/double-jeopardy-princeton-prepares-to-axe-star-professor-who-raised-hell-over-woke-lunacy\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659027567372000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0j7H973_XEdfWgSHzp4BWR\">ousted<\/a> a renowned conservative professor who had received tenure, and Yale Law School has been <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/unrelenting-daily-confrontation-after-roe-leak-yale-law-students-call-for-ostracizing-conservative-classmates-and-tossing-out-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/unrelenting-daily-confrontation-after-roe-leak-yale-law-students-call-for-ostracizing-conservative-classmates-and-tossing-out-constitution\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659027567372000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1yYZVXg8VdU2uzaFtbinwX\">rocked<\/a>\u00a0by calls from liberal students to harass conservatives on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Many U.S. colleges are home to self-described liberal professors. At Harvard, for instance, 82 percent of professors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=19869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveyed<\/a> this year called themselves either &#8220;liberal&#8221; or &#8220;very liberal,&#8221; compared with just 1 percent who identified as conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer Americans believe the government should fund higher education, declining by 6 percentage points over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/poll-americans-lose-confidence-in-predominantly-left-leaning-colleges\/\">Poll: Americans Lose Confidence in Predominantly Left-Leaning Colleges<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans who say universities are leading America in a positive direction has\u00a0dropped 14 points in the last two years, according to a survey released Tuesday. 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