The Partisan Divide on Higher Ed

The Gallup poll finds declining public confidence in higher ed as can be seen above. There is a strong partisan divide underlying the results:

From Gallup: ...Confidence in higher education among Republicans today is nearly a mirror image of what it was nine years ago. In 2015, 56% of Republicans had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence, and 11% had little or none. Now, 20% are confident and 50% have little or no confidence.

Republicans are not alone in having reduced confidence in higher education, as 35% of independents, down from 48% in 2015, and 56% of Democrats, down from 68%, are confident.

In the past year, all party groups have shown at least some increase in the percentage with very little or no confidence, and a decrease in the percentage saying they have some. None of the party groups shows meaningful change in high confidence over the past year...

Full story at https://news.gallup.com/poll/646880/confidence-higher-education-closely-divided.aspx.