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A Bitter Lesson for a Philanthropist at Arizona State. By allowing leftists free rein, ASU has lost a major donor.
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | August 16, 2023 | George Leef

Posted on 08/18/2023 3:58:45 AM PDT by karpov

Many donors have come to regret their financial support of colleges and universities, learning afterward that their money has been used in ways that are not compatible with their desires and often contrary to their values.

The Martin Center’s paper “Games Universities Play,” by the late Martin Morse Wooster, provides a background on this issue.

A recent series of events at Arizona State University (ASU) highlights the problem facing conservative and libertarian donors who want to help higher education without supporting the propagation of ideas they abhor.

Tom Lewis has given generously to a variety of causes over the years. Among them is the T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development at ASU. His idea for the Center was that American students often need help in preparing for the challenges of life after graduation. To fill that need, the Center ran programs to teach undergrads such things as balancing a checkbook and how to buy a car. It brought in people from all walks of life to help enlighten ASU students.

here had been no trouble with any of the Center’s programs until February, when it sponsored a presentation by three professionals entitled “Health, Wealth, and Happiness.” Those seemingly uncontroversial topics created a firestorm on campus, because two of the speakers were well-known conservatives who oppose the Left’s “progressive” agenda—Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager. The third speaker, a financial expert not identified with any political ideology, would probably not have elicited any hostility.

Once word got out that Kirk and Prager were going to speak at ASU, “woke” faculty and administrators sprang into frenzied action.

(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: asu; college

1 posted on 08/18/2023 3:58:45 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Unfortunately, for every conservative donor who steps down, five leftie billionaires take their place.


2 posted on 08/18/2023 4:02:47 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: karpov

That’s where DH got his PhD. They were removed from our Will about five years ago for the same reason. We aren’t major philanthropists, but it was a decent about of money. Screw ‘em.


3 posted on 08/18/2023 4:04:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: karpov

“highlights the problem facing conservative and libertarian donors who want to help higher education without supporting the propagation of ideas they abhor.”
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It is 2023.....how many years has this been going on? They just found this out now?


4 posted on 08/18/2023 4:22:57 AM PDT by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“They were removed from our Will”

Excellent.


5 posted on 08/18/2023 4:29:12 AM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: xenia
Not unique to universities;
Closer to home, antiCatholic bigotry persists on FR Religion Forum articles and posts from zealots; will they also, like the leftists, make up for lost contributions they drive away ?
6 posted on 08/18/2023 4:31:33 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: karpov

“...ran programs to teach undergrads such things as balancing a checkbook and how to buy a car.”

These are things you need to know before you graduate High School!
And they’re saying college undergrads need special classes for these things?
We are so screwed.
😞😞


7 posted on 08/18/2023 5:15:26 AM PDT by oldvirginian ("one more Lord. Please let me save one more." Corporal Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa 1945)
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To: karpov

I have never given one penny to my college after I graduated and I regret ever attending in the first place. I will not repeat that mistake with my children.


8 posted on 08/18/2023 5:18:47 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: oldvirginian

“...ran programs to teach undergrads such things as balancing a checkbook and how to buy a car.”

“These are things you need to know before you graduate High School!”

In my senior year I took a class called “Family Living”. Throughout the year we paired up and simulated: planning a wedding, buying a car, buying a house, budgeting, and even planning a funeral. Of course back then most of knew how to read, write, and do some math. I don’t think that’s the case now.


9 posted on 08/18/2023 5:54:41 AM PDT by suthener
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To: oldvirginian

Thought the same. The wife and I talk about high school daze and how we learned that stuff there.


10 posted on 08/18/2023 6:11:36 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: suthener

“Throughout the year we paired up and simulated: planning a wedding, buying a car, buying a house, budgeting, and even planning a funeral.”

I can’t recall having anything like that when I was in school, but then I only went through 9th grade. We learned all that from our parents in everyday life.

You have a point about the reading and writing.
The big problem is if they can read they probably can’t comprehend what the words are saying.


11 posted on 08/18/2023 8:26:19 AM PDT by oldvirginian ("one more Lord. Please let me save one more." Corporal Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa 1945)
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To: oldvirginian
The big problem is if they can read they probably can’t comprehend what the words are saying.

Now that is an excellent point! Recognition and understanding are not the same thing.

12 posted on 08/18/2023 9:56:56 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: karpov

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13 posted on 08/18/2023 9:56:58 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Moltke

“Now that is an excellent point! Recognition and understanding are not the same thing.”

I’ve noticed the divide between recognition and understanding getting worse year after year. The problem used to be “Johnny can’t read” now the problem is Johnny can’t read or understand. Too many people today can’t understand oral instructions much less written ones.


14 posted on 08/18/2023 10:52:20 AM PDT by oldvirginian ("one more Lord. Please let me save one more." Corporal Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa 1945)
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To: af_vet_1981

Despite religion forum posting rules, it is always open season to abuse Catholics.


15 posted on 08/18/2023 2:45:27 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
Which reminds me that such could help themselves, but cannot help themselves:

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

16 posted on 08/18/2023 7:06:43 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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