Why Are Republicans Down on Higher Ed?

Symptomatic of today’s politically polarized environment in the U.S., Democrats and Republicans express substantially different levels of confidence in colleges and universities. The 56% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents who have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in colleges is more than 20 percentage points higher than the 33% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who hold that same view. CONT.

Frank Newport & Brandon Busteed, Gallup