Posted on 03/02/2020 5:44:52 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
...Why should private donors stop giving to higher education? University benefactors should be made more aware of the one-sided ideological profile of faculty and administrators and the relentless growth of the university bureaucracy and infrastructure that is driving up costs. They need to realize that the present volume of private money helps make universities impervious to pressure to reform some of their troubling practices, including their political tilt, their intolerance of dissent, and their burgeoning administrative apparatus.
Yet even for alumni and donors who are untroubled by these trends, there are still compelling reasons to redirect their generosity. What should benefactors do with the money that they would ordinarily devote to academic higher education generally? A strong case can be made for spending their money on projects and initiatives that improve the lives of ordinary, unspecial people, and especially those without a college degree...
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Bkmrk.
Stopped giving to mine once they forced the Christian Fellowship to accept homosexuals as leaders. That was probably 10 years ago or more.
I never considered giving to mine after I had to sit through dinkins at my graduation
I have been saying this for years. Not just ivy league - stop giving money to people that hate you and want you dead. If you need the deduction, give money to Liberty or Hillsdale or a Christian school that actually still believes in Christ.
Stopped giving to mine(state school) cuz they have all these therapy animals etc...plus I contribute through my taxes. Enough is enough.
Any money given to Columbia is targeted to buying more and more real estate in Harlem and neighborhoods around the Morningside Heights Campus. Plus, the campus looks like San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.
Give it to Free Republic!
---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
it was so hard to believe that I thought you might be joking.
You weren’t.
...failure to pay taxes or file a return is itself a crime...
that’s the most common wording of some legal sites I went to.
Who knew? :)
I stopped contributing when I found out that my school (not ivy league) had a “bias response team” the purpose of which was to punish anyone who dared to speak out in violation of the standards of liberal orthodoxy.
Anyone who is considering a donation should check first to find out whether their school has one of these nazi-like anti-First Amendment groups operating on campus with the blessings of the school’s administration.
‘We Will Crush You’: 230 Colleges Launch Roving Bias Response Teams to Filter Free Speech
Here are 18 ridiculous bias complaints filed on college campuses
https://www.thecollegefix.com/18-ridiculous-bias-complaints-filed-on-college-campuses/
Universities turning towards the Chinese government for support
I’ve been writing scolding and shaming letters to mine every time they ask me for money for years now, both undergrad and Ivy grad school. At least one of mine had the courage to print a few letters of condemnation in their magazine after they dissed Donald Trump’s election, but that’s the extent of their give a damn about the U.S. Constitution.
To be added to (or dropped from) this occasional ping list, freepmail Albion Wilde.
Liberty U. now has the largest PhD program in the country, most of it on-line, with a lot of military people.
Graduate & Professional Degree ping list.
If you have a master's or doctorate and you'd like an occasional ping to threads on FR about your field or about higher education, freepmail Albion Wilde with your degree and profession.
I started this list during the 2016 Presidential election, when Trump supporters were depicted as stupid and uneducated.
Not an issue for me as I didn’t go to Ivy League. I went to Poison Oak League... ;)
Yeah, I’m a trade school guy — MIT.
It’s fading to obscene liberalism but not as fast as possible.
No Masters, but 2 wasted semesters of grad work.........
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