Posted on 04/04/2021 2:01:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who funds progressive drives and causes worldwide, has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York that seeks to enrich “democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.”
Bard College announced the donation on Thursday, describing the gift as “transformational,” calling it “among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States.” According to the school, the funding “will facilitate and strengthen 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.” Bard officials said the school had already raised an additional $250 million “in response to Mr. Soros’ generous challenge grant,” and expects to raise another $250 million over the next five years.
“This is the most historic moment since the college’s founding in 1860,” said Bard College President Leon Botstein. “When this endowment drive is complete, Bard will have a $1 billion endowment, which will ensure its pioneering mission and its academic excellence for the future.”
Botstein serves on the Global Board of Soros’ Open Society Foundations international grantmaking network, where his responsibilities include reviewing and advising all of the programs and entities within the organization. OSF’s website credits Botstein for guiding “Bard’s innovative liberal arts BA program in New York state prisons” and writing a book that “is the basis for acclaimed public high school reforms” in several major U.S. cities, including Baltimore, New York, and Washington, D.C. He is also chancellor of the Open Society University Network (OSUN), a global partnership of educational institutions. According to the Associated Press, Soros invested $1 billion to establish the OSUN last year, calling the endeavor the “most important and most enduring project” of his life.
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“And I’m never going back to my old school...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxXfNZWjot4
“Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who funds progressive drives and causes worldwide”
Liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who funds progressive drives to create a one world government
there, fixed it
Fagan and Becker are the only two good things to come out of Bard. The school will never ever be forgiven for Chevy Chase though.
I wonder how the folks in Barrytown will take this?
Money begets money. That’s how it works. Thankful my husband knows what he is doing. Both retired, 2 pensions, social security and take our interest off retirement accounts without touching the principle.
With a few exceptions, I almost always have a visceral negative response to a man who wears a bow tie.
The “progressives” lead the charge over the cliff....
Forward, comrades!
My dad always told me to never trust a man who wears a bow-tie.
There is something weirdly ostentatious about it.
Now, I do admit I don’t get that feeling if it is an old guy, but anyone under the age of 65...
SorozNazi uses Bard as a key college in his far leftist commie=nazi indoctrination campaign. It is useful for it to have a couple home bases (although of course by now it has spread to dozens of universities across America)
As Lenin correctly noted in a comment that reflects received lore one can find in many ancient societies,
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” -—Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (aka: Lenin)
Bard is a leftist hellhole
Money laundering.
They will use the money to pay politicians lavish salaries for teaching one course once a week, i.e. Liawatha.
yes!..and you’re not alone!
Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
There’s a wood chipper somewhere out there with Soros’s name on it.
by training tomorrow’s thought leaders.” this is all you need to know
“Investor and philanthropist”
And stinking rat on the Jews in WWII.
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