The one thing that the Trump administration has been trying to dramatically change is the indoctrination into the liberal horde that takes place in our institutions of higher learning.
When you have student bodies celebrating attacks by Hamas against Israel, something has gone horribly wrong.
Harvard and the Trump administration have been at odds since Trump took office, and the temperature in that fight is about to warm up even more.
While this is a problem on many campuses in our country, it seems to have infected Ivy League schools the most.
That is likely why the Trump administration has been threatening to pull back hundreds of millions of dollars to Ivy League schools, as well as a few other high-profile schools with a more “woke” ideology.
One of the most notorious violations was by the University of Pennsylvania, which had allowed transgender athlete Lia Thomas to dominate its swimming team, which included holding numerous school records.
Penn was among the first schools to crack, with Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon stating, "Thanks to the leadership of President Trump, UPenn has agreed both to apologize for its past Title IX violations and to ensure that women's sports are protected at the University for future generations of female athletes.”
Cornell had initially stiffened up against Trump, but rather than litigate the freezing of roughly $1 billion in federal funding, the school also reportedly reached a deal with the administration.
The freeze resulted in Cornell making cuts, stating, “It is important that every member of this community understands both the scale of the challenges our university faces, and the seriousness of the risks.
“While we are confident that we will weather this crisis, we will only do so by working together to make the difficult, but necessary, changes to ensure that Cornell will continue ‘to do the greatest good’ for many years to come.”
First, the school was reportedly nearing a deal that would unlock about $100 million of that funding. Second, there is no way the freezing of the funds would have forced Cornell to make drastic cuts, as the school has a $10.7 billion endowment, which contributes more than $400 million in annual costs. Trust me, Cornell is not at financial risk at this point.
Harvard has tried to stand tall, but that is likely because the school has the largest endowment of them all, sitting on a $53.2 billion endowment, the largest of ANY school in the country. The 2024 endowment distribution was $2.4 billion, so, again, why are we sending taxpayer money to these schools?
I dug into this a little bit, and my sources told me much of the money that goes to these types of schools is for research, especially in medical fields, yet the American taxpayer gets nothing in return in a monetary sense, but that could soon change.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is now demanding a full accounting of all federal funding regarding patents (why is this not standard procedure?) by September 5, or the school could have its patent privileges revoked. Harvard responded, “This unprecedented action is yet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom.”
I am not going to say that is not part of the reason, but I don’t understand how the government writes checks for these outrageous amounts while not requiring accountability, not to mention public transparency. In a perfect world, there would be a website showing every penny spent, and how it is spent, to show the American people how their money is being used. The fact that upsets Harvard, to me, is a big warning sign that federal funding is likely not going where it is supposed to be going.
