Posted December 7, 20231 yr What a disgusting show the presidents of these universities displayed in front of Congress yesterday. Was happy to see that Stone Ridge just pulled a $100 million donation from Penn today. Scary to think what the future holds for us if these are the type of people running our most renown institutes of higher learning.
December 8, 20231 yr I guess none of the fine institutions in the thread title are employing the Oxford comma either that or Harvard and MIT have merged
December 8, 20231 yr 3 hours ago, Dave Moss said: Do Republicans like cancel culture again? It's case by case. What are you proposing? I'll go ask.
December 8, 20231 yr 4 hours ago, Dave Moss said: Do Republicans like cancel culture again? Communists like genocide again, apparantly
December 8, 20231 yr 14 minutes ago, iladelphxx said: Communists like genocide again, apparantly Dave isn't big on history
December 8, 20231 yr 4 hours ago, iladelphxx said: Communists like genocide again, apparantly Well, that’s never changed
December 8, 20231 yr 36 minutes ago, Toastrel said: UPenn donor just withdrew a $100 million donation. I love consequences. Not over yet
December 8, 20231 yr Promoting genocide shouldn't be considered acceptable speech on campus. Just like it shouldn't be hard for republicans to say NSDAPs are bad, it shouldn't be hard for loony lefty college presidents to say genocide is bad. Claudine Gay should be removed.
December 8, 20231 yr I don't know what's up with these University presidents. Back in my day, they were beholden to the donor class whose contributions were funding the college, not the students. They wouldn't have stood for the kinds of public campus demonstrations we see now. Sure students were encouraged to debate issues in the appropriate settings, fine, but it was never allowed to leave classroom. I hope these school presidents are fired once donations dry up.
December 8, 20231 yr 2 hours ago, toolg said: I don't know what's up with these University presidents. Back in my day, they were beholden to the donor class whose contributions were funding the college, not the students. They wouldn't have stood for the kinds of public campus demonstrations we see now. Sure students were encouraged to debate issues in the appropriate settings, fine, but it was never allowed to leave classroom. I hope these school presidents are fired once donations dry up. Its now a transactional business. Students are customers paying insane prices for an inferior product and university presidents and trustees will do any thing to cater to them to keep them overpaying.
December 8, 20231 yr 10 minutes ago, Gannan said: Its now a transactional business. Students are customers paying insane prices for an inferior product and university presidents and trustees will do any thing to cater to them to keep them overpaying. While that's true at most universities, it doesn't have to be at Harvard, Penn and MIT. They have no issue recruiting students. Maybe they want to keep people applying to maintain the miniscule acceptance rates, but they don't have a demand problem.
December 8, 20231 yr Are the endowments so large now at these school that maybe it gave them a false sense of security regarding donors?
December 8, 20231 yr 16 minutes ago, Shepard Wong said: Are the endowments so large now at these school that maybe it gave them a false sense of security regarding donors? you said endowments and boners
December 8, 20231 yr 17 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: you said endowments and boners Do you like groaners or do you prefer moaners?
December 8, 20231 yr 3 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Do you like groaners or do you prefer moaners? whichever costs the least of my scant disposable income
December 8, 20231 yr 43 minutes ago, Shepard Wong said: Are the endowments so large now at these school that maybe it gave them a false sense of security regarding donors? This. The top ~25 schools have very little financial weakness. You pull your donation? Cool. Your kid is blacklisted. We gave the lunatic left a blank check to indoctrinate the youth of our nation, and now we wonder why kids want to chop their deeks off and side with Hamas.
December 8, 20231 yr 12 minutes ago, TEW said: This. The top ~25 schools have very little financial weakness. You pull your donation? Cool. Your kid is blacklisted. We gave the lunatic left a blank check to indoctrinate the youth of our nation, and now we wonder why kids want to chop their deeks off and side with Hamas. Plus the lunatic right does not value education, and prefers not be teachers, so we get book bans and pretend history.
December 8, 20231 yr 14 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Plus the lunatic right does not value education, and prefers not be teachers, so we get book bans and pretend history. The book bans are an improvement.
December 8, 20231 yr 15 minutes ago, TEW said: The book bans are an improvement. big mean words in big bad books hurts me.
December 8, 20231 yr 21 minutes ago, TEW said: The book bans are an improvement. Things like these are where you prove yourself a fool. Wearing blinders, willingly, is dumb, but you go above and beyond.
December 8, 20231 yr Author 3 hours ago, Gannan said: Its now a transactional business. Students are customers paying insane prices for an inferior product and university presidents and trustees will do any thing to cater to them to keep them overpaying. What percentage of the university warchest would you say comes from tuition receipts as compared to endowments and donations?
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