Harvard: where you can spend a lot of money
getting a shoddy education teaching hate and bigotry

One of Harvard’s biggest donors, Ken Griffin, has announced that he is pausing all further donations to the university due to its now obviously shoddy educational standards combined with its advocacy of racial quotas under its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program.

Griffin announced his decision to stop donating to Harvard during a keynote talk at a conference hosted by the Managed Funds Association in Miami. Griffin, however, left open the possibility that the University could win back his support. “I’d like that to change and I have made that clear to members of the corporate board,” he said. “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.”

He added that Harvard students were “whiny snowflakes” caught in a misguided ideology of oppressor and oppressed during his remarks.

Griffin also stated that his companies will hire no students who signed a group letter that expressed support for Hamas’ rape, torture, and massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis on October 7, 2023.

Griffin has donated more than half a billion to Harvard in recent years, including a $300 million donation to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences last year.

He is also not the first billionaire to announce a boycott of Harvard. In November Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Harvard alumni, released a long letter condemning the university’s former president Claudine Gay for allowing anti-Semitism to fester at the school. Like Griffin, he is apparently withholding further donations while refusing to hire students. Ackman has since repeatedly harangued Harvard in public for its refusal to take any serious reform actions.

Then in December billionaire Leonard Blavatnik stopped his own donations, also because he was appalled by the uinversity’s willingness to allow anti-Semitism to run rampant on campus.

These three men combined had previously donated almost a billion dollars total to the university. One would think their boycott would carry profound weight, and force some immediate changes at Harvard.

Don’t bet on it. This same week a Harvard committee advocated removing the name of Puritan colony founder John Winthrop from one of the university’s dorms because of one of his descendents from the 1700s (of the same name) owned one or two slaves. Its recommendation also notes the original Winthrop’s involvement with slavery of Indians and blacks during the early years of the colony in the 1600s. Both facts were outlined in a report that seems to demand we apply our standards today to the standards then, something that is unreasonable, espcially because the report ignores or diminishes the humane reasoning behind the actions of both men at that time.

Also this week Harvard’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, was exposed as a serial plagiarizer like former Harvard president Claudine Gay.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston’s thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

…”The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit,” said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University, where he ran several academic integrity probes. “This is research fraud pure and simple.”

Has Charleston been fired by Harvard? Of course not. It might eventually do so, but at the moment it has issued no comment, and appears to be circling the wagons to protect the head of its DEI racial quota program that is designed to favor some minorities over others.

The bankrupt nature of Charleston’s work, as well as the Harvard slavery study that somehow demanded perfection from past white Americans, illustrates the low educational standards that now exist at this so-called “elite” Ivy League university. No wonder big money donors are beginning to flee.

Harvard’s DEI office, still active
and ranking people by race.

Nor is this fleeing soon to end, since it appears the administration at Harvard has no interest in making real changes. All it wants is to do the least possible to placate these donors, while continuing its bad and poor educational policies that promote bigotry.

The worst aspect of this story is that Harvard is not an exception, but the rule. Most major so-called “elite” universities today are as bad at teaching and as enthusiastic towards racial quotas. Such things are now the norm. If you want a poor education and be indoctrinated with hateful racists beliefs, these are now the go-to places for such things.