Posted on 02/02/2024 4:07:30 AM PST by Conservat1
Billionaire Harvard University donor Ken Griffin said Tuesday he has stopped financially supporting the university, accusing elite institutions of creating “whiny snowflakes” instead of focusing on education.
Griffin, the founder of Citadel and worth more than $30 billion, has contributed some $500 million to Harvard in his lifetime.
At the MFA Network Miami conference, he told CNBC in an interview he has stopped the donations but would “like that to change.”
“And I’ve made that clear to members of the corporate board. But until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues — I’m not interested in supporting the institution,” Griffin said.
He went further to chastise all elite universities, saying they create “whiny snowflakes” and raised concerns they are “going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions, a DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] agenda that seems to have no real end game.”
Griffin previously said he would not hire any Harvard student who signed the infamous open letter at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war that blamed Israel solely for the Oct. 7 attack.
In the interview, he condemned antisemitism and expressed his displeasure with former Harvard President Claudine Gay for her answer at the December House Education Committee hearing on whether calls for genocide against Jewish people would be considered harassment.
“This is a simple answer: ‘You can ask my lawyers, but I’m going to tell you as the president of fill-in-the-blank university, there is no tolerance for calls to genocide on my campus,’” Griffin said.
... Griffin is far from the first donor to cut ties.
I omitted the word “Islamophobia “ which is often inserted by prigresuve” media to describe a false “balance”
They’re just realizing this now?
The Ivies make snowflakes
Few are Christian or Jewish
but some flakes are Muslim
and Yale ones are bluish.
Someone is about to have their life destroyed. Good for him to stick his neck out, but very few will have his back.
He will not be destroyed...he will destroy.
THEN STOP GIVING THEM MONEY KEN!
How long did it take for him to figure that out?
The reason Harvard is so out of control is because they have had this kind of money for several generations.
One doofus telling them that he is taking his marbles and going home means absolutely nothing to them.
If Griffin truly expects Harvard to change because of getting money, he knows they are street walking whores. There are hundreds of small independent colleges and universities that would so appreciate donations, however small or great.
I’ve never heard of this guy until yesterday. I think he also cut off his donations to Nikki Haley
The useful idiot Left has patiently come to be resident in many "choke points" so as to promote lunacy of all sorts, but, in Adam Smith's sense of "invisible hands," all the "nudging" and "messaging" and "manufacturing consent" cannot stem a walkaway as it happens and builds. Individuals make themselves noticed one by one.
Some hungry, ambitious schools might be created and funded that actually offer high-quality educations to the best and brightest. Harvard ought to be concerned about their reputation going down several notches, and losing status as an “elite” university. Smart kids might no longer be drawn there, and brilliant researchers might turn down positions there, regardless of compensation. All that would be left there would be pampered dunces, with no hope of employment outside of government and NGOs.
They are weak snowflakes who resort to using government in the form of the administrative state to get their way.
There are a couple hundred small colleges that have had shrinking enrollment for years. I think if they decided to go full anti woke and marketed themselves, as such, they could turn themselves around by getting conservative kids to attend. We could definitely use more Hillsdale type schools.
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