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A recent study from the Center for Responsive Politics shows political endorsements from college professors trend toward Democratic candidates.

The CRP tracks where money in all forms at the federal level comes from and divides it into 120 different special interest areas, including education, CRP spokesman Dave Levinthal said.

“We basically just looked at all the data we had compiled and tried to make sense of it,” Levinthal said.

CRP’s report on college professors’ political donations for the 2009-2010 year is broken down into money donated to Democrats and Republicans and displays the total amount of donations as well.

Of the 51 colleges and universities included on the list, only Calvin College, a small college in Michigan, had more money donated to members of the Republican Party than the Democratic Party. MU was not was not included in the list.

Levinthal said it is not always clear why college professors donate to a specific party.

“Oftentimes they were very reluctant to say why,” he said.

According to political donor information from the Missouri Ethics Commission, of 128 donors in 2009-10 who listed MU as their employer, one donated $10 to a Republican candidate and 36 donated a total of $3,355.23 to Democratic candidates toward statewide elections in the 2009-2010 year. Other donations were made to either other political groups or nonpartisan candidates.

Read the full story at the Mizzou Maneater.

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