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.
Pissin’ and moaning tantrum throwers. Little retarded crybabies.
Is Harvard still requiring the Yellow Star on Jewish students?
I guess I misremembered. I was thinking of Reid Hoffman who had cut her off.
BTW, it was one man (Bill Ackman) who brought down Claudine Gay from the presidency. When billionaire donors get together, Harvard listens (and so will hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small donors).
For what it's worth, donors don't just contribute to the endowment fund. They fund many research projects. Those also are now in danger.
Harvard and the rest of academia may not have thought about it, but there is a major storm on their horizon.
It was another doofus who told them to get rid of her. That doofus was a billionaire contributor (Bill Ackman).
Can you guess who they listened to?
no that 50 billion can be whittled quite easily. the leftist government has shown the way. Rigged studies, followed by rigged investigations, followed by huge fines..
BTTT
You make an excellent point.
And, Leftists make special efforts to infiltrate and control such institutions and charitable foundations.
IF he had contributed $500,000 each to 1000 farmers-—it would have been more useful.
POST OF THE DAY
Isn’t it funny that those who are screaming that Israel must “moderate” their response to this unprecedented assault, have no problem with those who conducted the attack (and their supporters) having a right to DEMAND GENOCIDE towards the victims of the attack!!
Two quick questions for these obvious “scholars”:
1) Exactly what is considered “moderate” in response to someone calling for the annihilation of your entire people?
2) And what happened to their beliefs that WORDS ARE VIOLENCE...would not the words calling for the murder of all men, women, and children of Israeli ancestry be considered “words of violence”?!?
Harvard, Yale, etc. do NOT produce “whiny snowflakes”. They just admit Gen Z individuals, many of whom are “whiny snowflakes” to begin with!
Harvard’s fault is their failure to convert “whiny snowflakes” into decent, well-educated human beings!
I wonder about MIT, which requires really hard work from all its students. Doe that convert “whiny snowflakes” into decent, well-educated human beings? Inquiring minds want to know!
Misspelling deliberate.
Harvard undergrads in History and Literature also need to earn their degrees, including a thesis! (There are also other demanding Harvard majors—H & L is just the most famous.)
In these horrible times, I hope that none of them plagiarize their theses!
I am going to have to defer to you on how, as I am educated in technology, science and a reasonable amount of math & statistics only.
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