What college professor donors give in federal races

Forty-five thousand academic lines under $4.7M

$4,703,898 is the occupation-level dollar total. 45,772 is the itemization count. 964 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $103. Mean dollars per donor record are about $4,880. Repeat giving is about 47 itemizations per donor record.

45,772 lines from 964 records is a high-repeat pattern: a modest academic-title pool generating many schedules. The per-line mean of about $103 is among the smaller means in this harvest band, so the contribution count is the number that explains how $4.7M accumulated.

These means are not typical-check estimates. The packet has no tenure field, no public-versus-private campus split, and no gift-size distribution. A few large lines can still sit inside a low average.

College professor is not professor

PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, and ADJUNCT PROFESSOR — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to COLLEGE PROFESSOR. This page cites only $4,703,898, 45,772 contributions, and 964 donors.

The FEC does not verify a faculty appointment, a tenure file, or a campus HR record. Community-college faculty, four-year faculty, and people who typed COLLEGE PROFESSOR as a catch-all academic title can all appear. Occupation is published as reported on FEC.gov.

Why the line count outruns the donor count

About 47 itemizations per donor record is a high repeat rate among occupation keys near $4.7M. Recurring small gifts, payroll deductions, and multi-committee giving can all raise the line count. The packet does not split those mechanisms. Quote 45,772 contributions with the dollars so readers see the shape of the bucket.

964 donor records is not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Address variants can inflate the donor count. Occupation is stored per transaction: COLLEGE PROFESSOR on some gifts and PROFESSOR on others splits activity across keys.

Occupation versus industry for campus work

Industry pages group employers. A college professor at a public university and one at a private college share this occupation string if they typed COLLEGE PROFESSOR. Adding $4,703,898 to an education industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Open the COLLEGE PROFESSOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring academic titles as separate keys. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $4,703,898.

Limits, source, and citation

Occupation is free text. Extra words (retired college professor, assistant college professor) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to COLLEGE PROFESSOR. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data.

A citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals COLLEGE PROFESSOR, dollars equal $4,703,898, contributions equal 45,772, donors equal 964. Compact millions ($4.7M) are the same headline amount rounded to one decimal place. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

COLLEGE PROFESSOR as high-repeat academic text

COLLEGE PROFESSOR in this extract is $4,703,898 on 45,772 itemizations from 964 donor records, or $4.7M in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $103 per contribution and about $4,880 per donor record, with roughly 47 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. PROFESSOR and UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to COLLEGE PROFESSOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $4,703,898. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals COLLEGE PROFESSOR, dollars equal $4,703,898, contributions equal 45,772, donors equal 964. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see how 45,772 lines from 964 records produced $4.7M. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have college professor donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list COLLEGE PROFESSOR sum to $4,703,898, or $4.7M, across 45,772 contributions and 964 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a count of working faculty. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are professors included in COLLEGE PROFESSOR?

Only if they typed COLLEGE PROFESSOR. PROFESSOR is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers COLLEGE PROFESSOR: $4,703,898, 45,772 contributions, and 964 donors. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Why are there so many college professor contributions?

45,772 itemizations from 964 donors implies about 47 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $103. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing COLLEGE PROFESSOR prove a faculty appointment?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify a campus HR file. Quote 45,772 contributions and 964 donor records with the dollars. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.