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Beginning in 1989, the [[Higher Education Research Institute]] (HERI) at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA) conducts a survey of American university faculty every three years and provides free access to data and weighted results. The HERI Faculty Survey gathers comprehensive information the faculty experience, such as position, field, institutional details, and personal opinion and views, including one question asking to respondents to self-identify their political orientation as "far left", "liberal", "moderate/middle of the road", "conservative", or "far right". Between 1989 and 1998, the survey showed negligible change in the number of professors who described themselves as far left or liberal, approximately 45%. As of 2014, the percentage of liberal/far left had increased to 60%.<ref name="HERI1990">{{cite book |author1=Astin, A.W. |author2=Korn, W.S. |author3=Dey, E.L. |title=The American College Teacher: National Norms for 1989-90 HERI Faculty Survey report |date=May 1990 |publisher=[[Higher Education Research Institute]] |page=44 |url=https://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/FAC/Norms/Monographs/TheAmericanCollegeTeacher1989To1990.pdf |accessdate=8 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="HERI1999">{{cite book |author1=Sax, L.J. |author2=Astin, A.W. |author3=Korn, W.S. |author4=Gilmartin, S.K. |title=The American College Teacher: National Norms for 1998-99 HERI Faculty Survey report |date=September 1999 |isbn=1878477242 |page=61 |url=https://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/FAC/Norms/Monographs/TheAmericanCollegeTeacher1998To1999.pdf |accessdate=June 8, 2018}}</ref><ref name="HERI2014">{{cite book |author1=Eagan, M. K. |author2=Stolzenberg, E. B. |author3=Berdan Lozano, J. |author4=Aragon, M. C. |author5=Suchard, M. R. |author6=Hurtado, S. |title=Undergraduate Teaching Faculty: The 2013-2014 HERI Faculty Survey |date=November 2014 |publisher=[[Higher Education Research Institute]] |isbn=978-1-878477-33-0 |page=61 |url=https://www.heri.ucla.edu/monographs/HERI-FAC2014-monograph.pdf |accessdate=June 7, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Ingraham2016">{{cite news |last1=Ingraham |first1=Christopher |title=The dramatic shift among college professors that’s hurting students’ education |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/11/the-dramatic-shift-among-college-professors-thats-hurting-students-education |accessdate=June 7, 2018 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 11, 2016 |quote=In 1990, according to survey data by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA, 42 percent of professors identified as "liberal" or "far-left." By 2014, that number had jumped to 60 percent.}}</ref>

Professor Samuel J. Abrams of [[Sarah Lawrence College]] used HERI data to study regional political differences in academia and found the most pronounced to be in the [[Northeastern United States|northeast region of the United States]]. According to an essay he wrote in ''[[The New York Times]]'', he concluded that, whereas the average ratio of liberal to conservative professors is 6:1 nationally, in [[New England]], it is 28:1.<ref>{{cite web|last=Jaschik|first=Scott|date=July 5, 2016|website=[[Inside Higher Ed]]|accessdate=May 14, 2018|title=New analysis: New England colleges responsible for left-leaning professoriate|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/05/new-analysis-new-england-colleges-responsible-left-leaning-professoriate|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Langbert">{{cite web |last1=Langbert |first1=Mitchell |title=Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty |url=https://www.nas.org/articles/homogenous_political_affiliations_of_elite_liberal |publisher=[[National Association of Scholars]] |accessdate=June 8, 2018 |date=April 24, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Sweeney"/>