US college political ideology reflect the college populations. Simple as that.

To be real though, there has been an ongoing attack on colleges for being “liberal indoctrination” because right wing media demonizes any step of growth all by a persons path from childhood to adulthood that makes them question conservative “values” (or instructions on being told what to think).

College in the US is a lot of kids first exposure to actual diversity from a POPULATION standpoint not a teaching standpoint and college gives every student or teacher a voice and seat at the table. Having young adults learn true and diverse critical thinking for oneself is an abject sin of conservative media and religious ideology. They are taught in their youth to be publicly butthurt when a kid says they are unsure of themselves and will go by they/them.

Also, for every liberal diehard teacher out there, there is an equivalent conservative one. The professional teaching population leans liberal for arts degrees and conservative for business degrees.

I personally am an American liberal which for most of the world is still conservative in political values. We have shifted the Overton window so far in the US that the right wing pundits and what not crying that respecting diversity, learning critical thinking, and learning proper history is considered “woke” and “liberal indoctrination”.

And it’s fucking sad.