Posted on 05/02/2017 6:27:10 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Penn spends over a million dollars each year trying to influence legislation on the state, local and national level — and that’s almost twice as much as any of its peer institutions.
It’s common for large research universities to invest funds in lobbying, but Penn spends far more on lobbying than other Ivy League university. According to a report from Open The Books, a database of government spending 29.6 percent of the $17.8 million the Ivies spent on lobbying from 2010-2014 could be traced back to Penn. --SNIP-- “The University, a private non-profit educational institution, receives direct annual non-preferred appropriations from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedp.com ...
The Penn President Amy Gutmann makes close to 3 Million a year. Penn must be getting a pretty good return on investment.
Ah, dont you love the student loan bubble and its lobbyists.
Liberal making sacred college is ridiculous. Lenin was some kind of son of a school Dean I hear.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.