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COLLEGE PROFESSOR

Total Donated

$4,703,898

Contributions

45,772

Unique Donors

964

Donors who listed COLLEGE PROFESSOR as occupation account for $4.7M in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s index of FEC.gov bulk files. The exact occupation total is $4,703,898 on 45,772 contribution lines tied to 964 donor records. COLLEGE PROFESSOR is a two-word academic title, not PROFESSOR or UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR. Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X.

Key figures

  • COLLEGE PROFESSOR itemizations sum to $4,703,898 ($4.7M) from 45,772 contributions and 964 donors.
  • Repeat itemizing is about 47 contributions per donor record; mean line size is about $103.
  • PROFESSOR is a separate occupation key unless normalized here.
  • Occupation is donor-supplied Form 3/3X text, not a faculty roster.

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.

Full analysis: What college professor donors give in federal races

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.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.