>Haven't there been both liberal and conservative parties in power in the past? So you would still have to explain why universities would tend to be liberal.

>Haven't there been both liberal and conservative parties in power in the past? So you would still have to explain why universities would tend to be liberal. Universities in the US aren't run by the federal government, and even if they were, the party in power wouldn't have any effect on the political leanings of campus staff/faculty. We're not China. The reason university campuses tend to be liberal, I think, is that most of the people there are A) young and inexperienced; or B) a very specific and self-selecting subset of intelligent people (professors) who are not necessarily a representative sample of all intelligent people.