This week’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the donations by the academy to the Presidential candidates:

1. Barack Obama:  $2.1 million
2. Hillary Clinton:  $1.6 million
3. Mitt Romney:  $563,795
4. Rudy Giuliani:  $461,925
5. John Edwards:  $351,261

Here are the colleges whose faculty and administrators have contributed the most to the Presidential candidates:

1. Harvard:  $281,050 (81% Democrats, 19% Republicans)
2. Stanford:  $135,850  (85% Democrats, 15% Republicans)
3. Columbia $120,350 (81% Democrats, 19% Republicans)
4. Georgetown:  $105,150
5. Chicago:  $92,902
6. Northwestern:  $78,450
7. NYU:  $74,350
8. UC-Berkeley:  $71,976
9. UCLA:  $65,980
10. USC:  $63,950