Posted on 08/14/2017 8:00:10 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Many of our country’s most cherished institutions of higher learning are shadows of what they once were. And if you’re a college graduate, that probably includes your alma mater.
A survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA found that a staggering 60 percent of university professors identified as “liberal” or “far-left” in 2014 – up from 42 percent in 1990. But interviews conducted in 17 separate Gallup polls in 2016 that found that 70 percent of Americans consider themselves either conservative (36 percent) or moderate (34 percent).
In colleges across the country, far-left professors now dominate disciplines like English literature, sociology, and history. Few have anything positive to say about capitalism, the Constitution or the United States in general.
As a result, many colleges have become ground zero for propagating every extreme idea the far left can imagine. And they want your money to help them do it. Lots of it.
To help them spread propaganda, colleges are regularly sending out fundraising letters and emails. From time to time, you may have donated or even made your gift as a regular monthly contribution. Some alumni donate small (or not-so-small) fortunes and have buildings named after them.
Wherever you find yourself on the continuum of funding university-sponsored indoctrination, please understand that you’re very likely financing institutions that oppose your values.
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It’s time? No, no — it’s far *past* time. This cancer has been metastasizing right in front of our eyes since the 1970s when the Radical Left took over Academia. Any conservative alum who donates or sends their kids to these indoctrination mills is a fool.
I think it is less likely for scientists and engineers to be liberal, just because those disciplines require one to be rational. The far left snowflake who goes into a tizzy screaming about how the STEM fields discriminate against women would never actually study a STEM field as it is way above their intellectual capacity.
I stopped decades ago.
Last month we changed our will and deleted my husband’s alma mater where he got his PhD. They will lose a LOT of money assuming that we continue on our same track with investments, pensions, etc.
“No body can wreck a company faster that a Harvard grad. “
Or a country.
My Alma Mater got exactly one donation: the deposit on my cap and gown at graduation.
When, a year later, they chose to spend the Class Gift on an entirely different project than the one the Class specified it for. . . . I was done.
That’s where my money goes.
The best thing to come out of college for me was the girl I met there. We’ve been married 30 years.
We get occasional calls from there for donations. My wife has made a few small ones.
But no more. A couple years ago, they opened something called the “Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia.”
That just sounds so insane, left wing, pro BLM that I told her that they don’t get another penny.
after 9/11 at Lehigh they stopped a group that was selling RED WHITE AND BLUE RIBBONS collecting funds for victim’s families....
lehigh administration stopped them saying it might offend foreign students
each year i make sure to send $0.01 to Lehigh because i figure it costs them $5 bucks to process the “donation”......
UNIVERSITIES ARE FESTERING COMMIE LIBTARD SEPTIC TANKS AND DESERVE NO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER.....
The majority of science and engineering departments are very liberal. Look at the voting patterns of towns filled with scientists and engineers. Look at Silicon Valley, look at where scientists and engineers live around Boston. Those towns are overwhelmingly liberal. The ‘elite’ professors really do think they know more than the average citizen.
What is different about the scientists and engineers is they are much less likely to fill their courses with propaganda the way some liberal arts and gender studies departments do. But when they go to the voting booth they are liberal.
I’m a regular donor to both my undergrad and graduate school.
But I designate my giving to science/medicine institutes attached to the universities! Maybe these folks will find new treatments for important diseases.
“No body can wreck a company faster that a Harvard grad.”
I’ve experiences that. A Harvard MBA destroyed a company I know. The company owned 97% of their global market. They had really no competitors. All they had to do is adopt electronic data processing. After $1 billion and 20 years, they failed to do so. They did a Kodak and are now facing total collapse. Piss poor management by a Harvard MBA ruined the company. He had no discipline to offer the organization, no forward thoughts, no drive, just platitudes.
Liberalism permeates every department - even in the sciences. Here is an example of a liberal physicist denouncing white male science. LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3577363/posts
“No shekels for you, either!”
Indeed. I’ve cut off both my undergrad, medical and grad schools from donations. Frankly, if they knew why I’ve cut them off I’m guessing they wouldn’t care. They are so “bunkered” in their mentality.
I quit my annual giving to my college which has become famous lately for everything from outrageous support of suspect Title IX behavior to kowtowing to the alleged microagressions affecting protesting snowflakes.
When I get a call these days I simply reply that all of these actions by students, faculty and administration are microagressions against me, my family and my country’s ethos.
Hence I require some safe space for my wallet.
Nice one! I may copy your witty remark! My grad school is so embarrassingly rich that I had never even received a fundraising letter from them but once a year — until they started trashing Trump. Suddenly, they feel a draft...
I think I'm very familiar with the scientists, since that is my chosen career. You do get liberals, but scientists are more likely to be conservative. And even the liberal scientists usually have a good measure of rationality, because the field requires strict discipline of thought. There are few scientists who are so stark raving nutters that you wonder if their brains are even wired correctly. In the humanities, on the other hand, I think that stark raving nutters is about par for the course.
I am very familiar with scientists and departments at major research universities. They’re liberal.
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Yeah, you’re right. All the places where I have taught or gone to school get zilch from me. The current employer gets some since it’s the most sensible of the places I’ve been.
Just science and business though, none to social sciences or humanities or fine arts or Christian studies or education or ...
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