Harvard has misplaced funding since October, when Ivy League college students started campus demonstrations in assist of Hamas.
One among their billionaire donors just lately defined why he now not helps the establishment, calling out the college for its embrace of DEI (variety, fairness and inclusion) insurance policies.
To make issues worse, he known as the scholars whiny snowflakes.
CNN really coated this:
Harvard’s $500M megadonor stops giving, says elite faculties produce ‘whiny snowflakes’
Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated greater than $500 million to Harvard College over time, has halted contributions to his alma mater, claiming elite faculties produce “whiny snowflakes.”
Griffin, one of many richest folks on the earth, joins a rising record of donors from Harvard, the College of Pennsylvania, Columbia and different prime faculties which have determined to shut their checkbooks.
At a convention in Miami on Tuesday, Griffin expressed deep frustration with the state of America’s universities, together with the disastrous congressional testimony by the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn.
Griffin, the founding father of hedge fund Citadel, mentioned he now not helps Harvard financially however wish to see that change.
“Till Harvard makes it very clear that they’re stepping up their position as [educators of] younger American women and men to be leaders, to be downside solvers, to sort out robust points, I am not taken with supporting the establishment,” Griffin informed CNBC’s Leslie Picker on the MFA Community Miami convention.
Watch the video beneath:
Billionaire Ken Griffin, who gave Harvard $300 million final 12 months:
“I’m not taken with supporting the establishment.”
He asks whether or not Harvard will return to coaching younger folks to be leaders or stay “misplaced within the wilderness” of DEI. pic.twitter.com/exLdTqHnv8
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) January 30, 2024
It actually looks like the general public is lastly catching on to what a rip-off and a joke larger training has turn out to be in recent times, hitting faculties the place it hurts most. Proper within the pockets.