May get somebody’s attention…
Or they simply may not care, in the case of Harvard!
Influential Harvard alum Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, has been vocal in calling for the resignations of the three heads of Harvard, UPenn, and MIT over their disastrous testimonies on Capitol Hill last week. The House hearing came after their abysmal responses to antisemitic attacks on their respective campuses since the Israel-Hamas war began Oct. 7.
Full article, HERE.
While McGill resigned at UPenn (but remains as a law professor), Gay’s plagiarism was swept under the rug by the Harvard Board today and they are keeping her.
While the money Ackman is talking about is large to folks like us, Harvard apparently has an endowment of somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 BILLION! So even $100 million is a drop in the bucket to them.
But I do find this X feed rather interesting, since this is the lady that Gay plagiarised…
I rarely get angry, but I am angry 😡 right now about the racial double standards that are TEMPORARILY giving #ClaudineGay an opportunity to resign. White progressives created her and white progressives are protecting her. The rest of us have had to work our rear ends off to… pic.twitter.com/5ls2f4PUtB
— Dr. Carol M. Swain (@carolmswain) December 12, 2023
Interesting, to put it mildly…
I can’t help but wonder if these people protesting realize what they are really protesting for or about…
I think I’ll go buy Dr. Swain’s book I’ve had in my wishlist for a while. I can’t do much else, but that’s at least a good way to support an author.
She seems to have a fairly conservative bent in her writings but it bothers me that “racial double standard” is the first place she goes. If Gay were black I doubt she’d have even been before Congress and if she had, the screams of “Republican racism” would still be echoing. There is a long history of the left promoting blacks far beyond their abilities and ignoring any and all incompetence and scandal. Scanning Swain’s work she has been back and forth on racial issues, opposing reparations but calling for Republicans (GWB) to “apologize for slavery”. What? Why? Nobody alive today had anything to do with it so it’s just meaningless optics.
If? Note the picture on this article. https://pjmedia.com/kevindowneyjr/2023/12/12/if-you-thought-the-commie-broad-from-harvard-was-going-to-be-fired-you-still-dont-get-it-n4924701
FWIW, the president of Penn was the only white one testifying. Note who got canned and who hasn’t.
I think you will find all the Ivy league schools and most of the top 100 universities have endowments that would boggle your mind.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments
It’s Satan’s Vatican. There’s not much more that I can say.
Harvard’s endowment is around $50 billion, so $100 million is chump change. They don’t start sweating until it’s at least $500 million, or a billion.
They could easily not charge student fees at all for anything, have 100% scholarships for their students and still be safe monetarily. They make far more money yearly off the Harvard name than they do off all their student fees and charges.
As to Ms. Gay, well, funny, if I did any of what she did in my old high school, I’d have been expelled or at least suspended bigly with a big red ‘X’ on my transcripts (yes, they were that tough back in the oooollld days.)
Cedar- Good point!
Hereso- Interesting, I wasn’t aware of that.
Gerry- Ouch! I missed a decimal point there, didn’t I!
LL- Concur, thankfully I never had to deal with any of them.
Beans- Good points.
According to Google Harvard’s endowment fund is valued at more than $50 Billion….not $5 Billion. And I have no doubt they have much more cash squirreled away in other places. As has been state in the past Harvard is an endowment fund that admits just enough students to maintain it’s tax exempt status.
What I’m hearing is that it would actually be possible to destroy some of these places by a) state level enrollment restrictions b) removing tax exempt status c) collecting tax monies from the endowments.
Still probably not a practical solution.
Still much saner than ‘kill everyone involved in the organizations, until the organization is defunct’.
I am perhaps excessively convinced that the modern university has killed the utility of universities, and that we will be changing to some method of tertiary school that does not have all of the academic fields together influencing each other.
I’ve more been interested in figuring out how to get a start up going on a replacement, then on trying to repair or destroy any of the current organizations.
This happened today.
https://oklahoma.gov/governor/newsroom/newsroom/2023/december2023/governor-stitt-signs-anti-discrimination-executive-order–takes-.html
I understand that it is way overdue, and that by appointing many of the regents, Stitt has in the first place pretty directly contributed to serious and fundamental issues at Oklahoma’s ‘higher learning’ institutions.
If Stitt had instead committed to seeing that certain schools had appropriate leadership, the executive order might not have been so necessary.
NFO, we think as one. Are you sure you’re not psychic?
Dan- Yeah…sigh
Bob- There are a ‘number’ of options apparently being looked at.
LSP- Psychotic maybe…LOL