In this video, Patrick Bet-David dives deep into the world of the financial and political influences shaping modern universities like Harvard and Columbia. We take a close look at how major donations and powerful figures like George Soros might be steering educational agendas and encouraging the protests taking place at colleges across the country.
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Donors make non-profit institutions go round. Universities and colleges are, at least ostensibly, non-profit institutions. Despite the fact that they charge tuition for students to take their classes, universities rely on donations and endowments to stay afloat (in fact, having more than 60 percent of one’s operating budget depend on tuition is considered suicide for a school).
Therefore it is natural that donors determine much of what happens at a school, from approving of new construction to the topics taught in classrooms. Donors even endow professorial chairs, departments, and research units, thereby determining what things will be studied by professors.
Now the question is, who donates to America’s universities—especially those that have been seeing intense campus radicalism? Is there a link between who funds these schools, what is taught at these schools, and the beliefs of the student bodies?
For example: which foreign country gave the most money to Harvard over the last five years?
The answer is China.
And who is funding the student protestors?
That would be George Soros, who is at the head of the funding snake that stretches all the way down to the black bloc protestors making encampments on Columbia’s campus and throughout the United States, as Valuetainment previously reported.
Soros has also given numerous grants to schools. According to The Cape Partnership, the Foundation to Promote Open Society gave away $184 million across 171 universities in 51 countries between 2014 to 2018.
Soros’ Open Society Foundations, his Foundation to Promote Open Society, and the rest of his Open Society Network, collectively operate more than $18 billion.
Watch the full video to see how the spending tree breaks down.
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics and business for VT and a regular guest on The Unusual Suspects. Follow Shane’s work here.
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