On the other hand, all this divestment is affording Hillsdale College's endowment -- if Hillsdale has one -- a great buy opportunity.
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Posted on 04/17/2015 7:01:18 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Syracuse University alumni are new additions to the lengthening list of people who can stop contributing to their alma maters. The university has succumbed — after, one suspects, not much agonizing — to the temptation to indulge in progressive gestures. It will divest all fossil fuel stocks from its endowment. It thereby trumps Stanford, whose halfhearted exercise in right-mindedness has been to divest only coal stocks. Evidently carbon from coal is more morally disquieting than carbon from petroleum.
The effect of these decisions on the consumption of fossil fuels will be nil; the effect on the growth of institutions’ endowments will be negative. The effect on alumni giving should be substantial because divesting institutions are proclaiming that the goal of expanding educational resources is less important than the striking of righteous poses — if there can be anything righteous about flamboyant futility.
The divestment movement is a manifestation of a larger phenomenon, academia’s embrace of “sustainability,” a development explored in “Sustainability: Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism” from the National Association of Scholars (NAS). The word “fundamentalism” is appropriate, for five reasons: Like many religions’ premises, the sustainability movement’s premises are more assumed than demonstrated. Second, weighing the costs of obedience to sustainability’s commandments is considered unworthy. Third, the sustainability crusade supplies acolytes with a worldview that infuses their lives with purpose and meaning. Fourth, the sustainability movement uses apocalyptic rhetoric to express its eschatology. Fifth, the church of sustainability seeks converts, encourages conformity to orthodoxy and regards rival interpretations of reality as heretical impediments to salvation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“College tuitions are soaring in tandem with thickening layers of administrative bloat. So here is a proposal: Hundreds of millions could be saved, with no cost to any institution’s core educational mission, by eliminating every position whose title contains the word “sustainability” — and, while we are at it, “diversity,” “multicultural” or “inclusivity.” The result would be higher education higher than the propaganda-saturated version we have, and more sustainable. “
But is FEEEEEELS good.
-- The Left's economic policies are not sustainable
-- Homosexuality is not sustainable
-- Abortion is not sustainable (at least for blacks)
-- The welfare state is not sustainable
And most importantly, under the Left's socioeconomic and political ideology and practice, liberty is not sustainable.
On the other hand, all this divestment is affording Hillsdale College's endowment -- if Hillsdale has one -- a great buy opportunity.
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Want to bet there are also PC purse strings involved with the federal funding? Get rid of federal funding.
See this giant leech? This is leftist administrators and faculty latching onto universities and sucking them dry. Teaching toxic sludge like black and women's studies and many others. Useless pseudo-intellectual crap that will only get you a job at Starbucks. And its usually the taxpayers who are getting ripped off paying for these bogus edu-ma-cations..
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