George Soros gives $500 million to tiny college

Campus Reform ^ | May 22, 2021 | Ben Zeisloft

[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....

[Deplorable American1776]

I’m glad it isn’t Hillsdale... Note to self: Don’t hire any Bard graduates!!

[FreshPrince]

Bard or Baird?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd10x8LiuBc

[T.B. Yoits]

George Soros U.S. taxpayers are forced to give $500 million to tiny college. (George Soros is writing this off on his taxes which means the U.S. taxpayer is picking up the slack).