Brown University employees donated way more money to the Biden and Harris presidential campaigns than to Donald Trump this election cycle.
According to a Brown Daily Herald analysis, the combined Harris/Biden campaigns netted almost $62,000 from the Ivy’s faculty and staff since January of 2023, while Trump received a paltry $272 and change.
Campaign finance filings show Harris has more than doubled what the president had garnered since she officially became the Democratic nominee in July.
In perspective, Brown faculty and staff gave a total of 189 donations to the Harris campaign — and just three to Trump.
A year ago, the Daily Herald found that Brown faculty, staff, and students collectively donated 27 times more to Democrats than Republicans, or 95 percent vs. four percent. (One percent went to “those with no party affiliation.”)
In 2020, Brown employees gave over $700,000 to progressive organizations and campaigns in large measure due to “the policies and behaviors of (former) President Donald Trump and his administration” which were “broadly unpopular among college-educated voters,” said Brown professor Richard Arenberg.
The Daily Herald notes former Brown President Ruth Simmons has donated a total of $82,000 exclusively to Democratic politicians and causes during and after her tenure since 2003.
A recent College Fix analysis found that current Brown President Christina Paxson (pictured) was the most prolific donor to Democratic politicians and causes among university presidents (just under $27,000).
The Fix also found that, similar to the collective Brown figures noted previously, 96 percent of all Ivy League professor political donations went to Democrats. This includes Columbia ($520,000), Harvard (almost $500,000), Yale ($340,000), and Princeton ($176,000).
Donation percentages outside the Ivy League follow a similar pattern. Ninety-six percent of donations from Arizona university faculty went to Democrats, 99 percent from those in the U. Wisconsin system, 94 percent from faculty at Michigan colleges, and 92 percent from those teaching at Ohio higher ed. institutions.
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