In the past couple of months, I’ve been receiving almost daily phone calls and texts messages from Yale asking me for donations. Before, they’d contact maybe twice a year.
I think they must have been abandoned by some of their rich donor, and are scraping the barrel to meet their donation goals.
I wonder at people who donate to schools with massive endowments instead of bringing their money to struggling colleges that work with students who really need help.
Malcolm Gladwell has been ranting about this for a long time:
It obviously hasn’t been very effective though. The rich get richer etc…
LikeLike
Billionaires I do get. They want buildings to be named after it. But there are tons of smaller donations by successful graduates who give in thousands or tens of thousands. They could give to places where that money would make serious difference. Yet they give to behemoths that don’t even notice their contributions.
It’s such an incredible contradiction for institutions such as Harvard, Yale, etc. to spout and try to lecture anyone about social justice. They are the pinnacle of privilege and their alumni are at the highest level of power. In the world of wokesters, they ARE the oppressors.
The contradiction is now plain obvious and cannot be hidden anymore. Woke ideology has nowhere to go but down, it’s an ideological dead-end full of contradictions that do not even hold up in their own world view.
Exactly! It was tough to teach at Cornell because students, while they are great kids, come from such extraordinary privilege that I could never relate to them as human beings. I kept feeling tawdry, poorly dressed, and weird.
LikeLike
Also interesting that the entire battle about affirmative action in admissions is being fought at Ivy league schools. Nobody cares about the principle. It’s just a fight for whose kids gets access to the higher echelons of society. And it’s not the black kids with families in the lower quartile of income distribution in america that are the beneficiaries of these admissions. It’s the children of elites in countries like Nigeria, and Harvard gets to showcase its DIVERSITY. Win win for everyone.
Basically, it’s a bait and switch where the struggle of the poor black family in america is cynically exploited by others (who share nothing with them except skin color) to get their children even more advantages. Vultures.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
Clarissa's Blog 
Leave a comment