Posted on 05/24/2021 7:47:48 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Billionaire philanthropist and left-wing megadonor George Soros is donating $500 million to Bard College a small liberal arts college in New York.
According to a Bard College press release, the grant — “which is among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States” — will facilitate “Bard’s exemplary educational and social initiatives, establish the College’s most substantial endowment ever, and set the stage for a $1 billion endowment drive.” The college announced that it raised $250 million for its endowment and is seeking to raise another $250 million going forward.
Bard College President Leon Botstein stated that the gift marks the “most historic moment since the college’s founding in 1860.” Based on Bard's published number of 1,900 undergraduates, Soros' donation amounts to $263,157 per current undergraduate student.
Botstein said, “Bard has played an innovative and progressive role in American education without any historical wealth; it will continue to do so with this new and highly competitive endowment, to ensure equity in financial aid, reform the relationship between higher education and secondary education, promote international education, and defend the arts, the humanities and basic science as the essence of the liberal arts.”
The funding comes as part of Soros’ Open Society University Network — a group that donates to universities around the world. Soros has donated a considerable share of his wealth to Democratic politicians and left-wing causes....
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Fagan & Becker’s alma mater.
“will facilitate “Bard’s exemplary educational and social initiatives”
...Evil. Just pure evil
Hey, Bard College. Just remember that old adage: He who pays the piper calls the tune.
He is old as dirt and knows that he will die soon.
After this it’s not even a college.
Soros needs an addition to his brainwashing gulag.
$oro$ = DESTABILIZER
Gate$ = DEPOPULATOR
everthing has an expiration date Ballsac Eyes & Billionaire Gates.
“I ain’t never...goin’ back...to my old...schoooooooooooooool”
North of $8 billion and he got it the old fashioned way. Founded a Hedge Fund.
Ah, Bard College. Had a HS classmate who went there. He told me that it’s nick-name was The Little Red Whorehouse on the Hudson. He went on to defend it by telling me that there were no red buildings on campus.
SPJNK.
Steely Dan guys went there?
LOL. sounds like a major party school.
He destabilizes countries then plays attendant currency imbalances...
One of the most liberal colleges in America. Formally Episcopalian. IIRC, alma mater of Chevy Chase and Louise Fitzhugh (author of Harriet the Spy).
Bard becomes LArd .
Lard College. Send you child there for a degree in Jingoistic Indoctrination.
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