Harvard is claiming that the Trump administration is attempting to force it to give up its constitutional rights when they tie Federal funding to conditions and accuse the administration of trying to “control teaching and learning at Harvard.” That is false. Where in the Constitution does it say that a college has a Constitutional right to the public treasury? I think that it is obscene that the US government is giving taxpayer dollars to an elite school that despises most of the people who are paying the taxes that make that very funding possible.
Harvard got $820 million last year. The list goes on. Columbia got more than $1.5 billion. All told, the eight colleges of the Ivy League received more than $6 billion in government handouts last year, despite the fact that they collectively are sitting on $185 billion in endowment funds.
The Harvard college has the largest endowment of any school in the world- to the tune of more than $53 billion dollars. They spend most of their money and time supporting leftist causes like David Hogg, who is now the vice chairman of the DNC. That is influence peddling of the highest order. Five of our last eight Presidents attended either Yale or Harvard.
I say that the Ivy league doesn’t need our money, and I think we should keep it.
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John in Indy · April 15, 2025 at 10:27 am
The totalitarian Left was screaming for a different result when their .gov was suing Right leaning colleges to force those colleges to follow their Leftist policies because the students at those colleges used Federally guaranteed Student Loans, though the colleges themselves refused any direct Federal money. John
Zarba · April 15, 2025 at 10:55 am
Harvard could freeze their endowment right now, and still pay for the tuition for every student enrolled for 455 years.
They don’t need our money.
GuardDuck · April 15, 2025 at 11:11 am
I had no idea until recently that we gave these private university’s public funding.
I understand the concept of state universities receiving public funds. With those funds are tied certain responsibilities. State college has lower tuition to state residents, etc, etc.
But if we are giving public funds to an Ivy league – then why the hell shouldn’t we also treat them as a ‘state’ school too?
And if we aren’t going to do so – then they should not be getting any government funding. Private college is a private college.
ML Thomas · April 15, 2025 at 5:47 pm
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Joe · April 15, 2025 at 5:59 pm
If the IRS can strip tax exemption status from churches because they don’t like the message of sermons, Harvard can should lose their tax exemption for supporting hate speach.
Jonathan · April 15, 2025 at 8:00 pm
They WILL lose on this is they make a fight of it.
There are numerous Supreme Court precedents going back to the 1970’s that any school that accepts ANY federal funding has to comply with ALL federal mandates in ALL programs.
Hillsdale College was the first to go to the Supremes and lose, since then many others have as well. Hillsdale and Grove City (1984) use their court loses as major selling points and have set up entirely private loan programs to replace federal student loans. They are also aggressive in keeping down costs so that fewer loans are required.
wojtek · April 16, 2025 at 1:03 pm
I am quite certain that in due time you will find that the courts in the US won’t allow the Federal Government to tie any conditions to any federal decisions that could be perceived as restricting freedom of speech.
Divemedic · April 16, 2025 at 1:12 pm
Really? So the KKK will be receiving government grant money?
wojtek · April 16, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Remind me what happened when the kla(u)n decided to adopt a highway?
Divemedic · April 16, 2025 at 5:44 pm
That is exactly my point. They were kicked out of the program.