and now Cornell University

https://www.breitbart.com/tech...enting-dei-programs/

A major Cornell donor says he will no longer donate to the university if it continues to implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The donor is also calling for the resignation of the school’s president over her “shameful recent response to clear acts of terrorism and antisemitism.”

“As a proud Cornell alumnus, donor, Member of the Board of Trustees (Emeritus), and Counselor to the President, it is my opinion that Cornell must abandon its misguided commitment to DEI because it has yielded not excellence but disgrace,” Jon A. Lindseth wrote in an open letter to Chairman Kraig Kayser and the Board of Trustees.

“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,” he added.

Lindseth went on to say that he has “spent years hearing the stories of Cornell and its leadership, participating as a student, and sponsoring and funding some of the University’s exemplary past work including the Library (which I continue to fund).”

“I can no longer make general contributions until the university reformulates its approach to education by replacing DEI groupthink with the original noble intent of Cornell,” he added.

Lindseth, who has been one of Cornell’s largest, most prominent donors for several decades, called out the school’s president, Martha E. Pollack, over her response to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel.

“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,” he wrote.

“Today the instruction Cornell offers is in DEI groupthink applied to every field of study,” Lindseth added. “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.”

Lindseth went on to assert that Cornell did not become “one of the country’s leading institutions and a proud member of the Ivy League” by putting “more value on DEI’s broad application rather than merit,” which is what has happened under President Pollack’s leadership.

“Under President Pollack’s leadership, antisemitism and general intolerance have increased on campus,” the Cornell alumnus added. “Her lack of leadership in the days following the October 7th massacre is only one of the many examples of poor leadership and failed policies at Cornell.”

Lindseth also pointed to a new campus “bias reporting system,” which he said “fosters a hostile Orwellian environment among neighbors, classmates, and colleagues reporting on one another.”

“The elimination of grades and SATs has created a system in which equal outcomes rather than proven merit has become the objective,” he said. “This is disastrous for a research university that is built upon academic achievement and aims to educate and train some of our country’s leading scientists, architects, and engineers.”

Lindseth has also requested that recent recalls for Pollack’s resignation be added to the agenda of Friday’s emergency board meeting.

“Provost Michael Kotlikoff should also resign for his close involvement in the denigration of Cornell’s academic legacy under DEI,” he added. “I’m sure everyone is familiar with ‘The Peter Principle.’ It being people rise in an organization until they reach their level of incompetence.”

Lindseth concluded, in part, by stating, “No alumnus, student, or faculty member should accept Cornell’s being in this shameful position,” adding, “We need new leadership to correct these intolerable circumstances and to redeem Cornell’s legacy and honor as soon as possible.”

Let's put Mr. Lindseth's argument to the test: Assign two groups of Cornell engineering students to build a plane.

One group is made up of students who are chosen solely on their engineering competency and grades. The other group is also from the engineering school, but both grades and adherence to Cornell's DEI policies are factored in when choosing the builders.

Who's going to volunteer to get on the DEI group's plane?

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This would be where the dirty truth gets out that these cretin have no viable credentials… other than the color of their skin or sexual orientation that is. This is a snowball that once it gets really rolling could become unstoppable and upset the leftist apple dei apple cart once and for all. Imagine it- universities getting back to their roots and educating! Incredible!

Chair of Harvard’s new antisemitism task force accused of antisemitism

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Harvard University has created a task force to fight antisemitism on campus — and the effort is already embroiled in controversy.

The co-chair of the school’s newly appointed Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism once declared “veins of hatred run through Jewish civilization,” according to his 2023 book.

“Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians from their land and oppression of those who remain have made it one of the most disliked countries on the planet,” Jewish history professor Derek Penslar claimed in his tome, “Zionism: An Emotional State,” in which he wrote, “Jewish culture was steeped in fantasies (and occasionally, acts) of vengeance against Christians.”

The task force, announced Friday, comes as the university continues to roil in the fallout from recently ousted president Claudine Gay.

“Reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic acts on our campus have grown, and the sense of belonging among these groups has been undermined. We need to understand why and how that is happening—and what more we might do to prevent it,” Harvard’s interim president Alan Garber said in a statement announcing the new initiative.

In the days after Gay’s resignation, Penslar publicly downplayed the campus antisemitism he is now charged with investigating, telling the Jewish Telegraphic Agency outsiders had “exaggerated” the issue.

In August 2023, Penslar signed onto a letter from a group called Academics4Peace, in which Israel was derided as a “regime of apartheid,” guilty of “Jewish supremacism.”

The letter, which was signed by 2,900 people, also accused the country of attempting to “ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.”

Harvard’s most ferocious critic, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, slammed the decision to appoint Penslar to the task force.

“@Harvard continues on the path of darkness,” Ackman said.

“Harvard is going to double down on its anti-Semitism. Firing Gay was just shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. The problem remains the racist and anti-Semitic DEI ideology,” added Ted Frank, director of litigation at the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a non-profit law firm.


Harvard has faced a raft of antisemitic incidents since the Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. The university’s response has sparked donor revolts and a full scale congressional inquiry.

Reps or Harvard and Penslar did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Post.

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Keep the donor money tap turned off and convince others to do the same. It’s literally the only thing that will stop this madness.

They’re still at it. And considering the mindset of Harvard they’ll likely prevail.

“A newly formed Black Harvard alumnae group have demanded the prestigious college doubles down on diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of Claudine Gay's resignation. 

The Black Alumnae of Harvard Equity Initiative (BAHEI) penned a petition to the board calling for DEI to be enshrined in almost all aspects of the university, including hiring professors and admissions from students.

The group's letter, first reported by Contra, said the organization 'formed in the wake of the attacks on Dr Claudine Gay and diversity and equity more broadly.'

Among the demands include ensuring the 'narrative around Dr Gay's stepping down from the presidency is grounded in truth', and the creation of a 'DEI task force' on campus. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/13107489

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“A newly formed Black Harvard alumnae group have demanded the prestigious college doubles down on diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of Claudine Gay's resignation. 

The Black Alumnae of Harvard Equity Initiative (BAHEI) penned a petition to the board calling for DEI to be enshrined in almost all aspects of the university, including hiring professors and admissions from students.

Otherwise known as the Black-American Intelligentsia that scholars like Glenn Loury have warned about and battled against.

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The Black Alumnae of Harvard Equity Initiative (BAHEI)

Isn't when you have "black" (or any racial nomenclature) group ~ that itself is NON-inclusive ~ hence racist?

I'm think some 'White Alumnae', and possibly some 'Asian Alumnae' as well, need to join this group (or attempt to!)...And they should be quite public about it!

Harvard’s Crisis Stems From Debased Curriculum

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Last month, Harry Lewis published a Harvard Crimson column that squarely laid the blame on Harvard for the crisis that has engulfed the great university. Fifty years of experience on the banks of the Charles River inform Lewis’ severe judgment: He is a longtime Harvard computer science professor, a 1968 Harvard College graduate, and, from 1995 to 2003, he served as dean of Harvard College. Nevertheless, while illuminating Harvard’s damaging politicization over the last 20 years of its undergraduate curriculum – and despite his half century at Harvard – Lewis overlooks the full extent of the crisis.

In “Reaping What We Have Taught,” Lewis maintained that the surge of antisemitism on campus following Hamas’ perpetration of mass atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7 was not the fault of Claudine Gay, who resigned as Harvard’s president in early January. Nor, he asserted, had Harvard admitted antisemitic students or hired antisemitic faculty. The problem, rather, lies in Harvard’s curriculum: “Unapologetic antisemitism – whether the incidents are few or numerous – is a college phenomenon because of what we teach, and how our teachings are exploited by malign actors.”

Lewis performed a simple experiment. He typed into the Harvard online course catalog search box key words associated with fashionable progressive ideology. The word “decolonize,” he found, “is in the titles of seven courses and the descriptions of 18 more” – more than triple its appearance before 2000. The words “oppression” and “liberation” are each “in the descriptions of more than 80 courses,” while “‘Social justice’ is in over 100.” Lewis also searched for “white supremacy” and “Enlightenment” – these days, it is often said, the latter arises out of and perpetuates the former. He discovered that the terms’ appearances in the online course catalog run “neck and neck, both ahead of ‘scientific revolution’ but behind ‘intersectionality,’” which barely registered before 2000.

Although acknowledging his experiment’s limitations – “word frequency is an imperfect measure” – Lewis argued that the results reflect the Harvard faculty’s exploitation of the classroom to advance left-wing concepts and claims. The replacement of education by advocacy creates fertile soil for sowing hatred: “When complex social and political histories are oversimplified in our teachings as Manichaean struggles – between oppressed people and their oppressors, the powerless and the powerful, the just and the wicked – a veneer of academic respectability is applied to the ugly old stereotype of Jews as evil but deviously successful people.”

The malign consequences are not confined to Harvard: “Merchants of hate are repurposing these intellectual goods that universities are producing.”

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These colleges are a total shit show, I'm glad all my college days are behind me:

Mounting calls for Columbia President Minouche Shafik to go because she has 'surrendered control to the anti-Semitic fringe' and allowed 'anarchy' after she canceled all in-person classes until the end of the semester


Outrage as Columbia president cancels ALL in-person classes until the end of the academic year for 37,000 students across four campuses after losing grip of anti-Israel mob

-Remote learning will remain in place at Columbia until at least April 29

-Parents urged to demand refunds for $66,139-a-year tuition fees

-Shafik facing renewed calls to resign over allegations she has lost control

I'd be demanding a full refund right now too.

They can demand whatever they want, there’s zero chance they’re refunding anything.

It's clear that learning is still a difficult process for the administrators, even after several of them were held up and publicly denounced, before Congress no less for their inaction. The students to their credit have absorbed and regurgitated all that they've been served from their professors, advisors and dean's regarding their support of the Palestinians and Hamas' cause. Unfortunately, like we've seen with public defenders turned district attorney's, these school presidents are unable to handle the job in its entirety. They are unwilling to deal with the disruptions, harassment and threats of violence that are nearing a rolling boil around their campus'.

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education by advocacy creates fertile soil for sowing hatred:

Well said....

It is long past time to go Kent State on these assholes.

I find it amusing that most all of these lefties marching and protesting Israel and supporting Hamas are committed to the leftest agenda. So let's see. What do the Muslims in Iran (the biggest supporters of Hamas) do to gay men? If caught they throw them over the side of buildings. I don't recall hearing about any gay pride parades, cross dressers or others with non traditional views parading around in Palestine. If they take over, people the lefties like would wind up dead.

It just gets better and better, or should I say worse and worse. Unbeliveable. She will be teaching an ETHICS class. IRONY at it's finest.


"Harvard’s Disgraced Former President Claudine Gay to Teach ‘Reading and Research’ Ethics Class, Collecting $900,000 Salary"

"The disgraced former president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, will return to teaching this fall, less than a year after her dramatic resignation.

Gay will reportedly teach a ‘Reading and Research’ ethics class as part of her commitments to the university which entitle her to a staggering $900,000 a year salary.

Back in January, Gay was forced to resign from her position after researchers found dozens of examples of plagiarism within her academic work. She was also the subject of significant criticism after refusing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jew from various Harvard students.

Claudine Gay resigned as the president of Harvard University in January over charges of plagiarism.

The university assured her she would remain employed for a salary of around $900,000 a year as an administrator. Harvard announced Gay would assume the role of teaching.


According to Harvard’s website, graduate-level Reading and Research courses do not provide letter grades, but require “written work of sufficient quantity and quality so that the course is equivalent to a lecture course or a seminar.”

The College Fix, which first reported the news, reached out to Harvard about the details surrounding Gay’s teaching schedule but did not receive a response.

In her resignation letter back in January, Gay denied accusations that she had committed plagiarism as part of her PhD thesis and accused her critics of racism.

“It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor— two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” she wrote at the time."

This is one of many articles about this, I've seen several others that I can't find now. LINK TO STORY CLICK HERE
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