A conservative students group at George Washington University researched the political leanings of the faculty and found evidence of "substantial liberal bias."

The university chapter of Young America's Foundation found that 92 percent ($221,490) of political donations by GW faculty in the 2008 primary election cycle went to Democratic candidates, while 8 percent ($20,500) went to Republicans. In the presidential election, the ratio was nearly the same, 91 percent to 9 percent.

The numbers reflect a well-documented liberal bias in the academy as a whole, the group said in a release. It cites data from the 2004 presidential election showing that faculty donations favored Democrats to Republicans by a ratio of 150 to 3 at Yale, 114 to 1 at Princeton and 406 to 13 at Harvard.

Travis Korson, president of the chapter, cited national trends toward the rejection of Western civilization, Euro-centricism and classical liberal arts in favor of "new academic disciplines such as 'Queer Studies' and 'Africana Studies' . . . I've had professors openly criticize conservatives in the classroom while denying that the academy leans strongly to the left," he said.

Korson follows the path of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., who documented liberal bias among his own professors at Yale in the 1951 book "God and Man at Yale."

Young America's Foundation, an outreach organization for the Conservative Movement, and GW houses its first university chapter in the nation.