Donations to Columbia University continue to plunge in response to the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic protests on campus
The motto means “In Your Light [God],
We Shall See the Light.” Too bad no one
running Columbia now believes in this.
During an annual fundraiser event this week at Columbia University, donations plunged nearly 29 percent from its last event in 2022.
Columbia’s “Giving Day” event in 2024 raised $21.4 million, a significant decrease from the $30 million it garnered in 2022, according to the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper. The event was not held in 2023 due to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent protests on campus.
The university also saw a nearly 28 percent decline in the number of gifts, which dropped from 19,229 in 2022 to 13,870 in 2024, the lowest level since 2015 and the first time the total monetary amount of the donations declined from the previous year since the event began in 2012. In response to the decline, the Columbia Spectator stated that the university is currently facing a “donor crisis — born out of concerns regarding campus protests.”
This story merely reinforces the decline in support for Columbia. In July it was reported that several major big donors had pulled money from the university, citing its willingness to tolerate violence and discrimination against Jews as well as its unwillingness to prosecute pro-Hamas students who trespassed and rioted on campus in the spring. Its board of trustees at that time took action to prevent the university president from taking any firm action to stop the occupancy of the campus by these students.
It remains entirely unclear whether this decline in donations will have any impact. While there does seem to be some effort at the university to clean up its act, the effort has so far appeared half-hearted and mostly centered on producing good pr while changing nothing. It took action this week to make sure the competing demonstrations by pro-Hamas and pro-Israel students marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Gaza would remain peaceful, but it also appears it continues to condone having a large block of students attending the university who not only see nothing wrong with the rape, torture, and murder of innocent Jews by Hamas, continue to advocate more such massacres.
During the last school year, Columbia became a focal point for both campus turmoil and the testing of free speech limits. In the last month, anti-Israel protesters vandalized the Alma Mater statue, an important campus landmark, and staged an unauthorized sit-in inside the lobby of the School of International and Public Affairs.
In other words, the university continues to tolerate such behavior, allowing the students involved to remain uncharged and enrolled, despite their actions clearly disqualifying them from earning a college degree. No wonder donations continue to drop.
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The motto means “In Your Light [God],
We Shall See the Light.” Too bad no one
running Columbia now believes in this.
During an annual fundraiser event this week at Columbia University, donations plunged nearly 29 percent from its last event in 2022.
Columbia’s “Giving Day” event in 2024 raised $21.4 million, a significant decrease from the $30 million it garnered in 2022, according to the Columbia Spectator, the campus newspaper. The event was not held in 2023 due to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent protests on campus.
The university also saw a nearly 28 percent decline in the number of gifts, which dropped from 19,229 in 2022 to 13,870 in 2024, the lowest level since 2015 and the first time the total monetary amount of the donations declined from the previous year since the event began in 2012. In response to the decline, the Columbia Spectator stated that the university is currently facing a “donor crisis — born out of concerns regarding campus protests.”
This story merely reinforces the decline in support for Columbia. In July it was reported that several major big donors had pulled money from the university, citing its willingness to tolerate violence and discrimination against Jews as well as its unwillingness to prosecute pro-Hamas students who trespassed and rioted on campus in the spring. Its board of trustees at that time took action to prevent the university president from taking any firm action to stop the occupancy of the campus by these students.
It remains entirely unclear whether this decline in donations will have any impact. While there does seem to be some effort at the university to clean up its act, the effort has so far appeared half-hearted and mostly centered on producing good pr while changing nothing. It took action this week to make sure the competing demonstrations by pro-Hamas and pro-Israel students marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas massacre in Gaza would remain peaceful, but it also appears it continues to condone having a large block of students attending the university who not only see nothing wrong with the rape, torture, and murder of innocent Jews by Hamas, continue to advocate more such massacres.
During the last school year, Columbia became a focal point for both campus turmoil and the testing of free speech limits. In the last month, anti-Israel protesters vandalized the Alma Mater statue, an important campus landmark, and staged an unauthorized sit-in inside the lobby of the School of International and Public Affairs.
In other words, the university continues to tolerate such behavior, allowing the students involved to remain uncharged and enrolled, despite their actions clearly disqualifying them from earning a college degree. No wonder donations continue to drop.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure CAIR will pick up the slack.
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As of June 30th 2023 they had $13.64 billion in their endowment fund.
I don’t think they are worried.
I’m quite glad I attended University in the 70’s. No student loan debt. Worked for my tuition.
I don’t know how to get into the headspace of anti-Semites. I probably don’t know enough about history. I must be really stupid.
Before she passed, my most significant-other for more than 30 years was a Jew. I’m not a Jew. Heck, I don’t really know what I am. But she made me happy every, mostly, day.
I just don’t get why people don’t seem to like Jews. I’ve never had a problem. I do have a problem with Jew haters. That’s easier for me to define.
RIP, my dear.
They still managed to get over 20 million. That’s a lot of enchiladas.