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Who says academia is 'fair and balanced' -- not I!

Study of Speakers at 32 Elite Colleges and Universities

Twenty-two of the thirty-two schools surveyed did not have a single Republican or conservative commencement speaker in the entire ten years surveyed. The same schools invited 173 liberals and Democrats to address their graduating classes in the same ten-year period.

Six of the remaining schools invited only one Republican or conservative each, as compared to 38 liberals or Democrats.

The three schools (Haverford, Swarthmore and UCLA) which host multiple speakers every year did not feature a single Republican or conservative speaker as balanced against 54 liberals and Democrats.

Overall, the ratio of commencement speakers on the left to commencement speakers on the right is 226 to 15, a little over 15-1.

141 commencement speakers were not associated with a partisan viewpoint.

(Hat tip: Hot Air)