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Fewer Harvard faculty members identifying as liberal, although staff still strongly left-leaning: Survey
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A new survey from The Harvard Crimson found that the majority of Harvard University faculty in the arts and sciences department identify as liberal, although less so than in recent years.
“Roughly 63 percent of Harvard faculty who responded to The Crimson’s annual survey of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] identify as liberal — continuing a steady decline in the percentage of survey respondents who say their political beliefs lean to the left,” The Harvard Crimson reported Wednesday.
The Crimson, a campus student newspaper, found that in 2025, about 29% of respondents said they were “very liberal,” and 34% said they were “somewhat liberal.”
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Harvard University’s faculty members in the arts and sciences continue to lean left. (Getty Images)
The number of “very liberal” faculty has grown since 2024, when 22% identified as “very liberal” and 48% as “somewhat liberal.” But the 63% figure was lower than the 70% who identified as liberal in 2024 and continued a recent trend. In 2023, more than 75% identified as liberal, and in 2022, more than 82% did.
In 2024, no faculty in the arts and sciences reported being “very conservative,” but in 2025, 1% of faculty in the arts and sciences said they were “very conservative.”
The survey, which was open from April 23 to May 12, was sent to over “1,400 faculty members, including both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, with names collected from the FAS’ public masthead. Faculty were asked about demographic information, politics, and campus issues,” receiving 406 responses.
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The survey was given to over 1,400 faculty members by the student newspaper. (iStock)
The.piece quoted a Harvard Crimson op-ed from government professor Harvey C. Mansfield, who said that the Ivy League should have more diversity of thought.
“Harvard needs conservative faculty to improve the quality of what is commonly heard and thought, to expand the range of its moral and political opinion, and to help restore demanding academic standards of grading,” Mansfield wrote in March. “All in all, to achieve nonpartisanship, Harvard first must achieve bipartisanship.”
The Harvard Crimson also asked professors if the school should try to hire more conservatives.
Only 8% said that they “strongly agree” that “Harvard should make a concerted effort to hire more conservative faculty,” 15% said they “somewhat agree,” 20% said they “neither agree nor disagree,” 23% said they “somewhat disagree,” and 34% said they “strongly disagree.”
In 2024, no faculty in Harvard’s arts and sciences reported being “very conservative,” but in 2025, 1% of faculty in the arts and sciences said they were “very conservative.” (Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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NEWARK (WABC) — New details were released about the close call at Newark Airport last month.
A United Jet flew about 15 feet above the busy New Jersey Turnpike on its approach to the runway.
The plane hit a light pole in the process and that pole hit a delivery truck.
“Low and slow,” those are the words used in a new NTSB report to describe the United flight that came close to catastrophe after hitting a light pole on the New Jersey Turnpike while landing at Newark airport.
The report found that the flight with more than 230 passengers and crew on board was flying dangerously low at just 15 feet above one of the busiest highways in the country.
Investigators say the pilots had been given multiple runway changes in the minutes before the incident, as they descended in strong winds and were eventually told to land at Newark’s shortest runway.
The first officer warned the captain, who was manually flying the plane, that the airspeed was slow, eventually saying, “You are still slow and a little low.”
Moments later, the plane hit the light pole, which crashed down onto a delivery truck, injuring the driver.
According to the NTSB, the captain said he “heard a thump” shortly before touchdown.
Passengers deplaned normally, but the plane suffered “substantial damage” with a gash in the side of the fuselage.
“The NTSB is gonna wanna go back and say what is it about this approach, this runway, how can we take out the possibility of error that almost led to tragedy in this case,” an expert said.
The driver’s father spoke out in the days after the accident
“Imagine that, struck by a plane, generally nobody walks away from a plane crash, nobody,” he said.
The first officer says he looked outside seconds before touching down and recalled thinking the plane looked too low above the turnpike, but at that point it was too late to change anything.
The Boeing 767 has not flown since the incident.
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In an era of pricey theme parks and gated admission, one Pennsylvania amusement park is still letting guests in for free.
Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, has been admission-free since it opened nearly a century ago.
Knoebels opened its doors on July 4, 1926 — and will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, as the nation celebrates America’s semiquincentennial.
Many of the earliest amusement parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries operated without admission fees, especially so-called “trolley parks,” which made money from charging guests for rides, food and drink.
Park owner Brian Knoebel, 52, recently told PA Local he “had to pinky-swear” to never change the free-admission model.
“It’s who we are,” he said. “It’s that traditional park.”
Knoebel said he recognizes that grandparents “get more satisfaction out of watching their grandkids ride the rides than they do themselves.”
“And Grandma and Grandpa are on a limited income,” he said. “So they don’t pay to park. We don’t force you to buy food in the park — if you want to bring a picnic lunch, then bring a picnic lunch.”
Knoebel, who said his ancestors came to America from Germany and worked as lumberers, said the amusement park began as a modest venture.
“After church on Sunday, they’d come down and park their horse and buggy off to the side, and frolic in the stream and have a little picnic,” he told PA Local.
“My great-grandfather would feed and stable your horses for, I believe, a quarter.”
Knoebel added, “Little by little, he started building some picnic tables and park benches, and on July 4, 1926, we opened a swimming pool, a restaurant — appropriately named ‘The Restaurant’ — and we rented a steam-powered carousel.”
Despite the park’s growth, Knoebel said its old-fashioned atmosphere has remained intact, including the canopy of trees, shaded walkways, creekside seating and classic attractions.
“How has it changed? We started with one ride, and one food stand, and the pool,” he said.
“We now have 60 rides, I believe 38 food stands, 24 games, and water slides … Quarter-mile down the road, we own the 18-hole golf course, complete with a bar and tavern.”
Overall, Knoebel said that he and his family “absolutely know our brand.”
“We know our fans,” he said.
“And that throwback amusement park from yesteryear is exactly who we continue to be,” he added.
“We don’t have roller coasters that reach the clouds. We have rides for thrill seekers … but, of course, we have more traditional rides.”
Knoebels is the largest free-admission park in the United States. “Knoebels does not have a gate, and you only pay for what you want once you are at the park,” the venue says on its website.
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