Major donor to Cornell pulls funding, demands firing of university president
These are probably the worst colleges in the country,
and it includes Cornell.
Jon Lindseth, a major donor to Cornell for years, has published an open letter to the university’s board of trustees, condemning strongly its bigoted “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) policies and demanding their shutdown along with the firing of university president Martha Pollak.
I am proud to count myself one of several generations of Lindseths who are Cornell alumni and invested donors, but I am alarmed by the diminished quality of education offered lately by my alma mater because of its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university.
President Pollack’s shameful recent response to clear acts of terrorism and antisemitism compared with her swift and strong response to the George Floyd tragedy demonstrates that Cornell is no longer concerned with discovering and disseminating knowledge, but rather with adhering to DEI groupthink policies and racialization. … Today the instruction Cornell offers is in DEI groupthink applied to every field of study. The result is a moral decay, some call it “rot,” that falls in line with prevailing ideology and dishonors basic principles of justice and free speech. Under President Pollack’s leadership the university continues to put more value on DEI’s broad application rather than merit. This was not how Cornell became one of the country’s leading institutions and a proud member of the Ivy League.
Lindseth not only wants Pollack to go, he also demands the university provost, Michael Kotlikoff, be removed as well. In addition, he calls for the shutdown of all departments advocating DEI, including the proposed but not yet opened “Cornell Center for Racial Justice.” As he notes, “There is no racial justice with DEI.”
There is an emergency board of trustees meeting taking place today where Lindseth wants these issues placed on the agenda.
Read his entire letter. It exhibits significant knowledge on his part about the inflitration of critical race theory into Cornell’s entire academic culture. It also suggests that Lindseth’s knowledge is newfound, only obtained in recent months following the October 7th massacre by Hamas in Israel. Before then he was blind, now he sees.
In this he is like too many major financial supporters of these bankrupt Ivy League univeriites. All had avoided facing the ugly corruption in academia, most of which had only been reported by the conservative press. When such reports were previously put before these donors, the reaction has routinely been, “Who can trust those extremists? They only make up conspiracy theories! The mainstream press tells me so!”
After October 7th however there does appear to be a great awakening. This awakening not only puts pressure on these universities to straighten up, it suggests that Lindseth along with many others have discovered that the conservative press is not only not extremist, it is actually doing the real reporting that the leftist mainstream press refuses to do. What the leftist press calls “conspiracy” to slander conservatives turns out to be true, repeatedly.
If so, Lindseth’s action is far more significant than it appears. It means that the general population, uninvolved in politics, is finally recognizing that it has been ill-served by the news sources it has been relying on. The consequences of this change will be so far reaching it will change the country radically, and in a good direction.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
These are probably the worst colleges in the country,
and it includes Cornell.
Jon Lindseth, a major donor to Cornell for years, has published an open letter to the university’s board of trustees, condemning strongly its bigoted “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) policies and demanding their shutdown along with the firing of university president Martha Pollak.
I am proud to count myself one of several generations of Lindseths who are Cornell alumni and invested donors, but I am alarmed by the diminished quality of education offered lately by my alma mater because of its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university.
President Pollack’s shameful recent response to clear acts of terrorism and antisemitism compared with her swift and strong response to the George Floyd tragedy demonstrates that Cornell is no longer concerned with discovering and disseminating knowledge, but rather with adhering to DEI groupthink policies and racialization. … Today the instruction Cornell offers is in DEI groupthink applied to every field of study. The result is a moral decay, some call it “rot,” that falls in line with prevailing ideology and dishonors basic principles of justice and free speech. Under President Pollack’s leadership the university continues to put more value on DEI’s broad application rather than merit. This was not how Cornell became one of the country’s leading institutions and a proud member of the Ivy League.
Lindseth not only wants Pollack to go, he also demands the university provost, Michael Kotlikoff, be removed as well. In addition, he calls for the shutdown of all departments advocating DEI, including the proposed but not yet opened “Cornell Center for Racial Justice.” As he notes, “There is no racial justice with DEI.”
There is an emergency board of trustees meeting taking place today where Lindseth wants these issues placed on the agenda.
Read his entire letter. It exhibits significant knowledge on his part about the inflitration of critical race theory into Cornell’s entire academic culture. It also suggests that Lindseth’s knowledge is newfound, only obtained in recent months following the October 7th massacre by Hamas in Israel. Before then he was blind, now he sees.
In this he is like too many major financial supporters of these bankrupt Ivy League univeriites. All had avoided facing the ugly corruption in academia, most of which had only been reported by the conservative press. When such reports were previously put before these donors, the reaction has routinely been, “Who can trust those extremists? They only make up conspiracy theories! The mainstream press tells me so!”
After October 7th however there does appear to be a great awakening. This awakening not only puts pressure on these universities to straighten up, it suggests that Lindseth along with many others have discovered that the conservative press is not only not extremist, it is actually doing the real reporting that the leftist mainstream press refuses to do. What the leftist press calls “conspiracy” to slander conservatives turns out to be true, repeatedly.
If so, Lindseth’s action is far more significant than it appears. It means that the general population, uninvolved in politics, is finally recognizing that it has been ill-served by the news sources it has been relying on. The consequences of this change will be so far reaching it will change the country radically, and in a good direction.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
People have had enough.
“The wide-sweeping proposal requires that diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, offices at the state’s eight public colleges and universities, specifically, be reframed. They can no longer be race- or gender-based, but instead must cater to all students as generalized “student success and support” centers.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/25/utahs-anti-dei-bill-passes-senate/
How much is DEI cost in the taxpayer?
“The University of Utah is spending $1,080,000 on DEI annually. Its operating budget (essentially, the amount it costs to run the university), ”
There’s too much money at stake for it to just go away, this is a ploy to change its name and tactics to continue the program in a more subtle fashion.
Do you want the truth? Follow the dollar.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/01/17/how-much-is-really-spent-dei/
Title VI violations are resulting in lawsuits. The federal government has the ability to defund schools that don’t protect the students. I would love to see schools become ineligible for federal dollars. No grants. No federal tuition assistance and no federal student loans.
Minor edit in first paragraph: “condemning strongly its bigoted”
Andi: Typo fixed. Thanks.
Don’t just leave it up to the big donors. Even if you’re only kicking in a few hundred at a time, economic pressure works at the margins. So if you’re a small donor like me (not to Cornell, fortunately), take a close look at where your contributions are going.
“major donor” – in what sense? What proportion of Cornell’s income is affected? “Major” in the sense of “EY HAFF MEELYONS OF DOLLARES UND VIL GIFF YEW SUM” which is major to ordinary people but just a drop in the bucket for the university, or major in the sense of being a noticeable proportion of their yearly income? What are the numbers involved? Why are they not published by the journalist when making a statement like this?
Ever notice how all these university presidents are women? I’m sure it’s because they are the most qualified, not just to meet some DEI quota.
Many years ago, I went to a function for my alma mater’s alumni, and they made a presentation about where the university’s funds came from. This was long before DIE, “woke,” or anything organized along those lines. There were student tuition, fees, housing, etc. There were government sources. There were research source, including government not listed in the previous line item. Among the line items were donations, including alumni donations, and that was a significant and growing source of the university’s funding.
Withholding donations is not a minor thing to university’s, these days. As they said in their presentation, you may think your donation is small, but it adds up to a large part of the university’s operating expenses. Larger donors are even more important to them, especially since a public letter like this gets attention from all the other donors, large and small.
However, DIE advocates are willing to weather such problems. They have their priorities, and a well run institution does not seem to be on that list. From Lindseth’s letter:
So, the question that will be answered this year is: “do the Regents care about funding, alumni opinion, and reputation, or do they favor the woke crowd?”
Philanthropy eventually does pay attention to where it’s money is being used. But the rich really are different. Unless their paid agent does something like swim in DEI or join October 7 festivities, they don’t actually pay attention. The rest of us are more aware of how our hard earned money is used.
Now the time has some for the us all to be able to use the levers of actual government with OUR money.
You WOULD donate $20 to build the wall or bus tickets. Send it to
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
P.O. Box 13528, Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711-3528
Make your check…
Payee: “ZELLE: WilmingtonDE@CPA.Texas.gov”
Memo: “VOID after 21 days”
Glenn Hegar, the elected Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, can make a single phone call and create a Texas state bank account. It is important to note that said account would be subject to legal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for public auditing. Trivial enough. But what does that have to do with the border situation?
ZELLE is the key. It is a peer-to-peer payment service that allows individuals to send and receive money from each other via connected bank accounts.
Accounts could then be implemented to buy bus tickets for illegal immigrants using emails like:
NYCbus@CPA.Texas.gov
FairfaxVA@CPA.Texas.Gov
Queens@CPA.Texas.gov (AOC needs it!)
To my readers: Please do not send money to the email addresses Mark above proposes, without doing some very careful checks as to their reality. This may be legit, or it could be a scam.
In fact, Mark, I would appreciate more documentation as to the legitimacy of these accounts and this plan.
I want a law passed that sociology courses must only be extracurricular electives
Fact-checking
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-science-sleuths-technology-fakery-plagiarism.html