Universities don’t care about alumni money anymore. It’s a drop in the bucket to them. They are going after federal and corporate money now. Grants and research dollars. DEI funding. I knew when Barack Obama held a campaign event at my alma mater (a public state university) that they had gone to the dark side. My uncle was a major alumni donor/sponsor to the same school. He had box seats at every athletic event and because he owned his own company, sponsored many of their events. When his granddaughter, who was valedictorian, BTW, was rejected for admission on racial grounds (I can’t recall the specific wording, but they hinted that they had filled their quota of white kids admitted from that county), he pulled all his donations, funding and dropped his tickets and they just shrugged. She went on to graduate from a different state school and it was obviously a better choice.
It’s interesting, because his other granddaughter (from his second daughter) just started her first year at the same school. She was also valedictorian and from the same county…and very white. 💁🏼♀️