“a donation to my alma mater”
At about $60,000/year tuition, what I could afford to give to my alma mater would make no significant difference.
College education has three major problems as I see things:
1. cost
2. quality
3. hostile atmosphere
As much as practical, things should be left to marketplace forces.
The education at Chicago was intense. But the teachers were the pits. They were all researchers and the only goal was to train more researchers. Dropout in physics was 90 percent and they were perfectly comfortable with that. I had the most AWFUL Nobel prize winning professor I can describe. So it wasn’t the education that stopped me from contributing. It was the darn liberal bent. In the 60’s no one protested as other schools. They were too busy arguing Robert’s Rules of Order. But they were still liberal then and it’s not gotten any better. Balance the politics and I’d give a little.