Last week, Columbia University became the first Ivy League school to permanently scrap its standardized test requirement, allowing hopeful applicants to skip the dreaded SAT and ACT.
The move makes the prestigious New York City school the latest in a string of elite institutions to move away from the tests as the argument that standardized testing harms minority students picks up steam. Previously, a low SAT or ACT score meant automatic elimination at many top-tier schools.
In a March 1 <a href="https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/columbia-test-optional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release,</a> Columbia University wrote that &#8220;students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor.&#8221; The admissions process respects the &#8220;varied backgrounds, voices and experiences&#8221; of students in order to determine whether a student will thrive at the school, Columbia said. Students may still submit test scores, but those who do not will not be at a disadvantage.
During the pandemic, many universities — including Harvard and Princeton — jumped at the chance to indefinitely suspend their standardized test admission requirements while in-person testing was on hold. Now, some like Columbia don&#8217;t want to go back.
In 2020, the entire 10-school University of California system <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-board-regents-unanimously-approved-changes-standardized-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to permanently get rid of standardized tests. The move came after a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/us/sat-act-uc-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> from students claiming the tests are racist and biased against disabled students. New York University, Cornell College, George Washington University, and University of Chicago have also joined the ranks of those that <a href="https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/colleges-that-dont-require-sat-or-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> students to skip the tests.
This fall, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/11/15/more-than-80-of-four-year-colleges-wont-require-standardized--tests-for-fall-2023-admissions/?sh=760c3bd17fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 80%</a> of undergraduate colleges will not require ACT or SAT scores from students, according to one estimate.
The SAT and ACT are also not the only standardized tests schools are ditching over &#8220;equity&#8221; concerns. Dozens of law schools have <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/lsat-optional-law-school-admissions-hit-snag-with-aba-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> their LSAT test requirement. Advocates are even <a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/2019/09/its-time-to-abolish-the-mcat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing</a> for medical schools to stop requiring the MCAT, alarming critics who worry that schools could end up graduating less qualified doctors, putting patients at risk.
The argument that standardized tests are inherently racist has given rise to eyebrow-raising explanations for why minority students on the whole <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/09/24/minority-and-first-generation-sat-scores-fall-behind" target="_blank" rel="noopener">do worse</a> on these tests. Black students perform poorly on standardized tests because they fear incorrect answers will confirm negative stereotypes about their race — they perform badly because they&#8217;re afraid of performing badly, essentially — a 2011 Stanford University study <a href="https://www.bet.com/article/cuz1xn/why-do-black-students-perform-poorly-on-standardized-tests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>.
A more plausible explanation is that minority students <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/03/sat-scores-drop-and-racial-gaps-remain-large" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often come</a> from low-income backgrounds and neighborhoods where students may not have support systems or quality schools helping them prepare well for the test.
Now, a new deadline has turned up the pressure on schools to get rid of standardized tests.
The Supreme Court is preparing to rule against affirmative action this summer. This means universities will have to find new ways to keep their student body diverse, like eliminating standardized testing.
The high court is widely expected to rule in June that affirmative action is unconstitutional and racist in a pair of cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina. A group called Students for Fair Admissions <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-hinting-it-might-throw-out-affirmative-action-used-in-college-admissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> the schools, accusing them of unfairly factoring race into their admissions process. The group pointed to the high test scores of Asian-American and white applicants who were rejected.
Universities, including selective ones, are scrambling to find ways to replace affirmative action.
Cornell has <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/12/pollack-establishes-task-force-undergraduate-admissions#:~:text=Cornell%20joined%20other%20institutions%20in%20filing%20amicus%20briefs,the%20admissions%20offices%20supporting%20each%20college%20and%20school." target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> a task force to figure out how to recruit diverse classes if the Supreme Court nixes affirmative action. The University of California system board of regents banned affirmative action back in 1995, so UC <a href="https://edsource.org/2020/dropping-affirmative-action-had-huge-impact-on-californias-public-universities/642437" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopted</a> roundabout ways of trying to identify minority students such as poor neighborhoods and family income. Some schools may now follow in UC&#8217;s footsteps.
Hans Bader, a longtime civil rights lawyer who worked in the federal Office for Civil Rights, said schools are trying to &#8220;reduce reliance on merit-based criteria&#8221; ahead of the ruling.
&#8220;They hope that by doing so, the number of admitted black applicants will increase as a result,&#8221; Bader told The Daily Wire. &#8220;They hope that will offset the result of the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling, which could make it much harder for them to give an overt racial preference to black applicants in admissions, and thus could reduce the number of admitted black applicants significantly.&#8221;
&#8220;Their students will be dumber as a result,&#8221; Bader predicted.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Kardashian</a> addressed graduate students at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> Business School on Friday about her shapewear <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/business" target="_blank" rel="noopener">company</a> Skims.
Students at the elite university said the reality television star and fashion mogul spoke for nearly two hours as part of a direct-to-consumer seminar, according to a <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/entertainment/kim-kardashian-makes-trip-to-boston-to-speak-at-harvard-business-school/2950831/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from NBC10 Boston. Kardashian is a co-founder of Skims, a multibillion-dollar shapewear company, and recently launched a private equity firm called Skyy Partners.
“My partner Jens and I spoke about our marketing, our challenges and our greatest wins,” she said on Instagram, along with a reel of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnsJx9QSjf5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photos</a> from the experience. “I’m so proud of Skims and the thought that it is a course being studied at Harvard is just crazy!!!”
One student told NBC10 Boston that she enjoyed the lecture.
&#8220;I think a lot of people don&#8217;t respect her as someone who is co-running a multi-billion dollar company,&#8221; the student remarked. “Just to learn from someone who has built such a successful business was really exciting and I think having the privacy of no cameras in the room, being able to have that candid conversation was special too.”
Skims recently doubled its valuation from $1.6 billion to $3.2 billion over a period of nine months as investors rushed to acquire equity in the brand, according to a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-27/kim-kardashian-s-skim-underwear-brand-doubles-valuation-to-3-2-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Bloomberg. The company now offers shapewear, pajamas, sweatpants, turtlenecks, and underwear.
“This latest round will allow us to focus on bringing more innovations and solutions to our customers and become even more of a trusted resource for them,” Kardashian said in an email.
Social media users were nevertheless skeptical of the value Kardashian brought to the elite Ivy League business school, which boasts graduates such as former President George W. Bush, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. One commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/BerlinSmu/status/1616983657754906626" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that “Harvard‘s prestige has evaporated into thin air in my mind,” while another <a href="https://twitter.com/SasSassasassa/status/1616900297829359616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> that Harvard “should be ashamed of themselves.”
“Kim Kardashian was born into wealth,” another user <a href="https://twitter.com/MsHollyBennet/status/1616536532906639384" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>. “Attempted to use a sex tape to launch an acting or singing career; neither launched &#8230; Harvard is just as tacky as the Kardashians now.”
Grit Capital CEO Genevieve Roch-Decter, who has studied under two Harvard Business School Executive Education courses, <a href="https://twitter.com/GRDecter/status/1617313460219674624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Kardashian earns $80 million per year, more than 450 times higher than the average $175,000 earned by Harvard MBA students after graduation. “I think everyone’s making fun of the wrong person here,” she said.
The speaking opportunity for Kardashian occurred after she faced widespread criticism for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kim-kardashian-slammed-for-statement-over-balenciaga-scandal-there-is-no-grey-area-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response</a> to fashion company Balenciaga releasing a photoshoot that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/balenciaga-responds-to-child-bdsm-photo-shoot-scandal-we-could-have-done-things-differently" target="_blank" rel="noopener">depicted</a> young children holding teddy bears in bondage-themed gear. As other celebrities publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trash-day-brittany-aldean-shares-photo-of-balenciaga-gear-stuffed-in-garbage-bags" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threw</a> their Balenciaga apparel away, Kardashian did not rule out working with the brand in the future.
“I appreciate Balenciaga’s removal of the campaigns and apology. In speaking with them, I believe they understand the seriousness of the issue and will take the necessary measures for this to never happen again,” Kardashian remarked. “As for my future with Balenciaga, I am currently re-evaluating my relationship with the brand, basing it off their willingness to accept accountability for something that should have never happened to begin with.”

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Last week it was reported that Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School, decided <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2023/01/10/harvard-rescinds-fellowship-offer-to-leading-rights-activist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to award</a> a prestigious fellowship to Kenneth Roth, the former director of the NGO Human Rights Watch.
A spokesman for the school explained that the decision was based on “an evaluation of the candidate’s potential contributions” to the school, but Roth quickly <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hrw-harvard-israel-kennedy-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> to sympathetic news outlets to spin his rejection (with no real proof) as a violation of his “academic freedom” under the assumption that it was all because of his well-documented anti-Israel bias.
This week, Roth could not help himself from doubling-down on some “speculation” he had seen that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/10/kenneth-roth-human-rights-watch-harvard-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> (again with zero evidence) shadowy “donors” of having influenced Elmendorf’s decision — a thinly veiled reference to the “Jewish money” bogeyman that antisemites the world over love to blame for their own misfortunes.
The sad reality is that two separate things can be true at the same exact time: Kenneth Roth has said many false and wildly antisemitic things, and Kenneth Roth also does not deserve a prestigious fellowship at Harvard because he is a poor academic — an ideologue, not an expert, who <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-foreman/the-twitter-hypocrisy-of-kenneth-roth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weaponized</a> his discipline and who simply <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/hrws-definition-of-human-shields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cannot be trusted</a> to tell the truth. To the extent that his smears about Israel did have any effect on the decision to reject him, Dean Elmendorf should be roundly applauded for protecting his schools’ academic integrity.
First, despite his protestations, it is entirely understandable for people to accuse Kenneth Roth of <a href="https://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-sharansky-f04.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitism</a>, especially in his attempts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish State, and to hold it to a double standard not expected of any other democratic nation. 
Roth’s pathological <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obsessed-93-of-ken-roths-illegal-accusations-targeted-israel-last-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obsession</a> with <a href="https://eoznews.blogspot.com/2017/08/hrws-ken-roth-spouts-new-israelwhite.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vilifying</a> the Jewish State so debased Human Rights Watch that Robert Bernstein, its founder and longtime chairman emeritus, had to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publicly condemn</a> the organization <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110224080005/http:/www.ngo-monitor.org/article/human_rights_in_the_middle_east" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple times</a> for losing its way — and its credibility — under his leadership.  
The sad fact is that Roth has a nasty repetitive habit of broadcasting dangerous fabrications that all too often have focused on Jews and/or the Jewish State, and that are sometimes used to “justify” antisemitic violence. For instance, on separate occasions he has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/does-human-rights-watchs-kenneth-roth-understand-the-nature-of-prejudice/380556/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> antisemitic attacks in the <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/nm/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roth1.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.K</a>. and in <a href="https://www.ngo-monitor.org/nm/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Roth2.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Germany</a> on Israel (instead of antisemites,) then <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/hrw-director-accused-of-justifying-antisemitism-on-twitter-674346" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> he was misunderstood. He has also referred to Jewish law as “<a href="https://www.nysun.com/article/editorials-roths-false-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primitive</a>,” mockingly <a href="https://unwatch.org/human-rights-watch-chief-mocks-jews/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referenced</a> Jewish culture, defended <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/hrws-definition-of-human-shields.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war crimes</a> committed by terrorist organizations including <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/09/analysis-of-ken-roths-tweets-8x-more.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a>, and expressed <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldNGOM/status/996386017279135744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismay</a> that Israel has not suffered more casualties as it defends itself. 
It is also clear why Dean Elmendorf might feel that Roth is not entitled to a position at Harvard simply because he says false things about Israel and calls it “scholarship.” Despite his supposed “expertise” in international law, Roth’s 2021 histrionic report labeling the Jewish state guilty of “apartheid,” is a throwback to the Zionism-is-racism United Nations canard that is demonstrably false, factually, morally, and legally, and it was widely <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rejects-human-rights-watchs-accusation-of-israeli-apartheid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected.</a> Roth’s dubious understanding of the basics of international humanitarian law and the principle of <a href="https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/496313191434317824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proportionality</a> – it is a prospective, not a retrospective analysis – have been repeatedly exposed, as has his disturbing inability to recognize <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324439804578105691046734674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genocide</a> when it comes to threats against Jews. 
In attempting to paint himself as the victim, Roth seems to have conflated the ideas of “free speech” and “academic freedom.” Spreading falsehoods through shoddily researched reports riddled with <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/human-rights-watch-endorses-palestinian-terrorism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">errors</a>, <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/human-rights-watch-report-maligns-israel-with-lies-on-top-of-lies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">omissions</a>, and supporting outright <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/human-rights-watch-and-its-tunnel-deceptions/">lies</a>, is absolutely protected First Amendment activity outside of the academy — but it is precisely the kind of behavior that demonstrates professional unfitness for an academic post. As the American Academy of University Professors has <a href="https://www.aaup.org/article/academic-freedom-and-scope-protections-extramural-speech#.Y8EG6OzMKso" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>, “Freedom of speech presumes the freedom of the individual to opine without regard to standards other than the dictates of his or her own conscience and the minimal requirements of the law. By contrast, scholars are failing to do their job — and may be subject to discipline — if they do not reject ideas that have been tested and found wanting.” Roth can (and does) say whatever he wants, but that doesn’t mean anyone has to support, let alone hire him. 
It is also worth noting that both Elmendorf and the Kennedy School are demonstrably not biased towards Israel — despite what the woke <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/1/11/hks-ken-roth-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mob</a> frantically demanding his resignation might believe. As recently as 2020, for example, under Dean Elmendorf’s tenure, Saeb Arekat himself, the chief negotiator for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, was awarded a year-long fellowship. The problem here is obviously not Kenneth Roth’s “viewpoint” on Israel or any legitimate criticism he might offer — it is Kenneth Roth’s blind spot born of apparent hate which manifests as disciplinary <a href="https://www.aaup.org/programs/academic-freedom/faqs-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incompetence</a>. 
As always though, it is easier to just blame the Jews, or Israel, for causing all the worlds’ problems. 
Dr. Mark Goldfeder is an international lawyer and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Harvard And MIT Sue Trump Administration Over Foreign Student Rule

Harvard’s Kennedy School Dean Should Be Applauded For Defending Academic Integrity

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Harvard Medical School students will administer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQIA+</a> care for people &#8220;from infants to older adults,&#8221; thanks to a clinical course run by an LGBT activist.
The course is called &#8220;Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development.&#8221; A four-week elective course held mainly at Massachusetts General Hospital, it is available full-time every month. The two directors of the course are affiliated with Mass General, and one of those directors is an activist pushing transgender surgeries for minors.
&#8220;This elective is a four-week multidisciplinary clinical-and-scholarly experience that trains students to provide high-quality, culturally responsive care for patients with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex development,&#8221; the <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> reads. &#8220;Many of these patients identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual (LGBTQIA+). Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults.&#8221;
&#8220;Students will work with multidisciplinary teams in a variety of clinical settings and specialties, including but not limited to Adolescent Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Practice, Infectious Disease, OBGYN, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Primary Medical Care, and Plastic Surgery,&#8221; it adds. &#8220;They will be immersed in clinical practices committed to promoting health and resiliency for gender and sexual minority communities.&#8221;
In addition to Massachusetts General and Harvard Medical School, the course also offers &#8220;partnerships and clinical experiences&#8221; at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital</a>, which has reportedly offered various trans “affirming” care for minors.
A doctor at BCH claimed in a video put out by the hospital that some transgender patients know their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-childrens-hospital-under-fire-again-for-video-claiming-young-kids-know-their-gender-seemingly-from-the-womb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender identity</a> &#8220;as early as seemingly from the womb.”
“They will usually express their gender identity as very young children, some as soon as they can talk, they might say phrases such as ‘I’m a girl’ or ‘I’m a boy’ or ‘I’m going to be a woman’ or ‘I’m going to be a mom,’” Dr. Kerry McGregor, a psychologist at BCH&#8217;s Gender Multispecialty Service clinic, said in the video. “Kids know very, very early.” McGregor also said that the clinic serves patients as young as age 2 or 3.
Besides BCH, the course allows students to work at the Cambridge Health Alliance, the Harvard-affiliated Fenway Health Center, Boston Health Care for the Homeless, and other health-care organizations that serve the LGBT community.
According to a report from The College Fix, the directors of the course, Alex Keuroghlian and Alberto Puig, work for Massachusetts General. Keuroghlian is also a psychiatrist at the Fenway Health Center. He is also a radical LGBT activist who pushed &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; health care on children. He published <a href="https://www.physiciansweekly.com/gender-affirming-surgery-tied-to-better-mental-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> in 2021 that claimed gender-affirming care led to better mental health outcomes among transgender children, and attacked Texas Governor <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/science/texas-abbott-transgender-child-abuse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> last year for trying to prevent the practice.
The course also pushes transgender research on students who take it. &#8220;At the beginning of the elective, each medical student will receive an updated packet of foundational and current peer-reviewed articles in the area of gender and sexual minority health, to ground their clinical experience in relevant basic science and evidence-based practice,&#8221; the course description reads.
The course is part of Harvard Medical School’s Sexual and Gender Minority Health Equity Initiative, which seeks to &#8220;foster excellence caring for patients with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex development.&#8221;

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When it comes to America’s national security, we think of energy grids, water supply systems, and espionage by foreign governments. Our university system, however, receives very little attention — and it should. The fact is America’s universities are wittingly and unwittingly putting U.S. national security at risk as they have been infiltrated by foreign countries.
China has built the most sophisticated espionage operations in the world and its government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has identified U.S. universities as fertile ground for extracting valuable research and knowledge. There’s no shortage of examples of <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106114.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">technology transfers</a> from our top university campuses to foreign entities.
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Charles Lieber</a>, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was convicted on charges of fraud and conspiracy for failing to disclose connections to the Wuhan University of Technology, which paid him $1.5 million to establish a research lab there, as well as a monthly salary of up to $50,000. 
Another concerning case involved <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/chinese-national-convicted-acting-within-united-states-unregistered-agent-people-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ji Chaoqun</a> — an engineering “graduate student” at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was a member of the U.S. Army Reserves who enrolled as a graduate student and worked on behalf of what the FBI deems a high-level Chinese intelligence officer.
Ji would identify individuals for potential enlistment into China’s espionage operations. The individuals targeted were Chinese nationals working as engineers and scientists, including those that worked for American defense contractors. As someone who has conducted risk and threat assessments, I can say that examples like these reveal how deeply college campuses have been penetrated by foreign intelligence.
The United States leads the world in technological progress and innovation, much of which comes from our world-renowned research universities. It&#8217;s smart for the CCP to target these rich resources, but we need to be smarter, recognize what’s happening, and take action to stop it. Unfortunately, following the money reveals why universities are turning a blind eye: they’re addicted to the cash flow.
The reality is, foreign entities are using college campuses throughout the United States as vehicles to buy influence on and, ultimately, off campuses. According to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-schools-failed-to-report-billions-in-foreign-funds-u-s-finds-11603391416" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Department of Education</a>, U.S. universities, including Harvard, failed to disclose at least $6.5 billion in foreign contributions, including from China, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Money talks and it nearly always comes with strings attached.
Countries operate on their self-interests, and they do not contribute large sums of money without receiving anything in return. They are well aware that money buys <a href="https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-money-us-universities-implications-academic-freedom-and-national-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">silence and influence</a>. Silence where administrators and faculty censor themselves out of fear of losing revenue. These countries also look to propagate their views on college campuses so they can influence U.S. policy among the next generation of decision makers.
Another area of concern lies within our graduate degree programs, particularly the STEM fields as these areas are critical components to a nation&#8217;s growth and development. We are educating our enemies and equipping them with the knowledge and tools to harm us. International students <a href="http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Importance-of-International-Students.NFAP-Policy-Brief.October-20171.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">far outnumber</a> their American peers in critical graduate degree programs — electrical and petroleum engineering 81%, computer science 79%, industrial engineering 75%, statistics 69%, and more. 
According to the <a href="https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/u-s-and-global-stem-education-and-labor-force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Science Foundation</a>, temporary visa holders earned more than half of U.S. doctoral degrees in economics, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, and statistics — and the numbers continue to grow. At <a href="http://bulletin.engineering.nyu.edu/content.php?catoid=17&amp;navoid=1367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering</a> alone, international students comprise 73% of the total enrollment in the engineering graduate program.
Between foreign contributions and foreign students, colleges generate <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/foreign-students-pay-up-to-three-times-as-much-for-tuition-at-us-public-colleges-2016-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions</a> of dollars in revenue, with total revenues <a href="https://edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/Chen_EdExports_EdWorkingPaper%20v3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceeding 30%</a> for some institutions.  
Now is the time to take action on foreign influence in American higher education. The risks are too important to ignore, and as universities grow more reliant on foreign monies, the threat to our national security will become greater.
Our intelligence community needs to do a better job working with universities to educate them about potential threats of foreign influence on campuses and in labs. At the same time, we need to strengthen the student visa vetting process to reduce the foreign intelligence risks. Congress should also play a role and must develop legislation barring foreign contributions from nefarious countries flowing into our university campuses.
Exceptional institutions of higher education are one of our national treasures — we must treat them as that with care and protection. 
Nicholas Giordano is a professor of Political Science at Suffolk Community College in New York and a Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard</a> University government professor Claudine Gay will serve as the prestigious school’s first <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">black</a> president and second female president.
The news comes six months after current Harvard President Lawrence Bacow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-president-to-step-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would retire sometime next year. Gay is scheduled to assume the leadership role of the nearly 400-year-old school on July 1, according to a <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/12/harvard-names-claudine-gay-30th-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the university.
“Claudine is a remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing Harvard’s academic excellence, to championing both the value and the values of higher education and research, to expanding opportunity, and to strengthening Harvard as a fount of ideas and a force for good in the world,” said Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny Pritzker, who served as chair of the school’s presidential search committee. “Claudine has brought to her roles a rare blend of incisiveness and inclusiveness, intellectual range and strategic savvy, institutional ambition and personal humility, a respect for enduring ideals, and a talent for catalyzing change.”
Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has helped implement <a href="https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/report/recommendations-to-the-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college#recommendation-6-establish-an-endowed-legacy-of-slavery-fund-to-support-the-universitys-reparative-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommendations</a> posited by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which includes the creation of a reparative endowment meant to benefit black and indigenous populations, and participated in the launch of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. She is also the founding chair of the school’s Inequality in America Initiative, which <a href="https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/research-clusters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> research areas such as the nation’s history regarding “social justice” and the treatment of “undocumented” immigrants.
The academic currently leads the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences while serving as a “leading scholar of political behavior, considering issues of race and politics in America,” according to her <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/cgay/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty profile</a>. She has taught at Harvard University since 2006 and was previously an assistant professor at Stanford University.
“So many fundamental assumptions about how the world works and how we should relate to one another are being tested,” Gay remarked. “Yet Harvard has a long history of rising to meet new challenges, of converting the energy of our time into forces of renewal and reinvention.”
Among the most noteworthy facets of Bacow’s tenure was the beginning of efforts to consider the school’s history with slavery. A report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-releases-slavery-report-findings-pledges-100-million-to-right-past-wrongs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that Harvard affiliates held at least 70 slaves between the school’s founding in 1636 and Massachusetts&#8217; abolition of slavery in 1783. As a result, Harvard pledged $100 million to address its history with the practice.
Over the past two years, Harvard also made headlines by joining other elite postsecondary institutions in rolling back its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-wont-require-standardized-tests-through-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standardized testing</a> requirements. High schoolers vying for a spot in the next four undergraduate classes will no longer need to submit scores for the SAT or ACT.
The appointment of Gay to serve as president of Harvard also occurs as the Supreme Court appears poised to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-poised-to-overturn-affirmative-action-precedents-key-activists-forecast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule against</a> the Ivy League school in a lawsuit contending that admissions officials discriminate against students of Asian descent. One study from 2009 found that Asians required an SAT score 140 points higher than white applicants, 270 points higher than Hispanic applicants, and 450 points higher than black applicants to experience the same chances of admission, according to a <a href="https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discrimination-on-admissions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Asian American Coalition for Education.

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The endowment supporting <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> lost $2.3 billion in the last fiscal year, the school’s <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/stock-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investment</a> arm revealed this week.
The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/wall-street" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stock market</a> has experienced one of its worst years in modern history as <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a> persists and the economy sinks into a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/recession" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recession</a>. Harvard Management Company CEO N.P. Narvekar said in a <a href="https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy22_hmc_letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to members of the Harvard community that the endowment’s plummet in value is largely due to current market conditions and “reinforces the necessity” of focusing on long-term investments.
Although the 1.8% negative return was the first loss since 2016, the endowment contributed $2.1 billion toward the university’s operating budget and stood at a value of $50.9 billion at the end of the last fiscal year. “We remain confident that the steps we have taken — and those still in process — to construct a portfolio that serves the University’s long-term interests will allow Harvard to maintain and increase its critical support of students, faculty, and research for generations to come,” Narvekar wrote.
The letter admitted, however, that efforts to achieve net zero emissions “weighed upon performance.” At the end of last year, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-endowment-suffers-through-woke-investing-while-the-university-of-texas-drills-oil-and-rakes-it-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the university would allow remaining investments in the fossil fuel industry to expire while refusing to adopt new ones. The move came after <a href="https://divestharvard.medium.com/tireless-organizing-yields-harvard-divestment-victory-b68f43b271a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive campaigns</a> from student activists.
“A number of institutional investors leaned into the conventional energy sector, through either equities or commodity futures, adding materially to their total return,” Narvekar continued, explaining that Harvard Management Company “did not participate in these returns given the university’s commitment to tackling the impacts of climate change, supporting sustainable solutions, and achieving our stated net zero goal.”
The letter nevertheless added that Harvard Management Company is “proud to be deeply engaged in the issue of sustainability” and has invested in “technology-driven climate transition investments.” The organization is also working to address “the lack of gender and racial diversity in the financial industry” among portfolio investments and its own team.
Harvard Management Company <a href="https://www.hmc.harvard.edu/sustainable-investing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">integrates</a> environmental, social, and governance factors, also known as ESG, into its investment processes. Among other goals, the organization is “committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
While university endowments and leading asset managers continue to operate under the assumptions of ESG, an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive poll</a> from The Daily Wire indicated that American investors prefer to keep profits and social activism apart from one another. Although 29% of respondents agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% said it is a “bad thing.”
Despite controversy surrounding ESG and the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement, also known as DEI, academia has forwarded both ideologies. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which typically <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/university-of-pennsylvania-01194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">places first</a> in national rankings of collegiate business programs, recently added DEI and ESG programs for graduate and undergraduate students.
Amid the most recent stock market downturn, however, ESG investments <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virtue-signaling-isnt-free-how-woke-investing-fell-apart-once-the-economy-got-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tended to suffer</a> the most as investors overexposed their funds to the technology sector while avoiding fossil fuel investments. Though technology companies are known for bankrolling social initiatives in reaction to events like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-year-after-george-floyd-americas-biggest-corporations-earmark-37-billion-for-racial-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death of George Floyd</a> or the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-woke-businesses-vowing-to-cover-travel-costs-for-employees-abortion-tourism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturning of Roe v. Wade</a>, they were also the first to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/recession-fears-lead-big-tech-companies-to-pause-hiring-cut-jobs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lay off</a> large portions of their staff as the stock market began its recent tailspin.

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Harvard University Admits Climate Goals Contributed To $2.3 Billion Endowment Loss

Harvard University Endowment Loses $2.3 Billion

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A Harvard-led study powerfully confirms not only that young American adults are miserable — but also admits that many of the virtues, behaviors, and connections long championed by conservatives are missing from the lives of our young people.
Well, well, well &#8230; how the tables have turned.
Last week, a friend of mine sent me <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/why-are-young-people-so-miserable/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020220916%20">an article from The Harvard Gazette</a> entitled, “Why are young people so miserable?” Knowing that I have spent the last four years of my life writing, researching, and speaking out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-heart-breaking-inside-story-of-how-we-hollowed-out-a-generation-of-young-americans">on this very issue</a>, and also knowing I have endured a fair amount of hysterical criticism from progressive voices telling me I am a right-wing, religious zealot, and that I should not be teaching in a classroom, this interview from a Harvard researcher was supremely satisfying to read.
The author of the study, Tyler VanderWeele, was admirably blunt and eloquent throughout the interview: &#8220;Across every dimension of well-being that we looked at — happiness, health, meaning, character, relationships, financial stability &#8230; those who are 18 to 25 felt they were worse off.&#8221;
The interview is a powerful and sober testament about a generation gone awry. It should be noted that if VanderWeele’s interview had been published by The Daily Wire, or any of our fellow conservative publishers, he would surely have been mocked and marginalized by the left as just another howling curmudgeon crank who longs for the glory days of a less diverse and more religious America. But this interview enjoys the imprimatur of the Harvard brand and thus will be taken more seriously among liberals.
And serious it is, even if the article absolutely buries the lead.
Towards the end of the interview, VanderWeele makes a powerful observation. He notes that surveys from twenty-two years ago showed that young adults 18-25 used to be much happier than people in middle age. Middle age is typically the least happy and most stressful part of life — often filled with endless obligations to work and family, confronting the harsh chasm between youthful hopes and middle age reality, as well as taking care of elderly parents and doing so with limited time and money.
But now, in 2022, it is the youngest cohort of Americans who are sinking in misery. And why is this? Of course, VanderWeele must tip his hat to a panoply of economic and social policies, but in the end, he explicitly admits, “study after study — ours and others’ — have indicated that family life and participation in religious communities contribute across these aspects of flourishing. And participation in both of those are down substantially.”
And it is here where conservatives can authentically celebrate — or, if we&#8217;re being snarky, can scream, “WE TOLD YOU SO!”
Yes, <a href="https://fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentary/family-structure-and-academic-outcomes">traditional family life</a> creates a paradigm for rearing children that confers an endless list of emotional, economic, and moral benefits.
Yes, if we allow our young people to become thoroughly immunized to the blessings and possibilities of spiritual life, they might just fall prey to the nihilistic individualism that deifies consumerism, relativizes morality, and celebrates hollow sexual romps facilitated by Tinder and other “dating” apps.
Yes, if you teach American history and civics from a smug and self-righteous perch of presentism that interprets our history as a long parade of pernicious people from the past who should have known better, instead of a <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/28/the-90-solution-to-americas-contentious-critical-r/">noble but imperfect striving</a> for human justice and the maximization of human liberty, then our young people might not understand why they should be thankful for their country and the institutions that they did absolutely nothing to build and preserve.
The most fascinating and endlessly ironic nugget in the interview was VanderWeele’s admission that 18-25 year olds also feel “physically” unwell. Surely, the young should feel physically better off than middle age and elderly Americans. But they do not. He hypothesizes that they feel a “physical threat from the pandemic, more than others.” 
The irony is seething — young Americans often preach a dogmatic scientism in regards to environmental concerns and yet when it comes to the actual threat posed to their age group by COVID, they continue to demonstrate irrationally high levels of fear. Anyone who travels will notice that young American adults seem to wear masks more than any other age group. A further layer of irony is that a Harvard-led study is revealing how physically unsafe young adults feel when it was Harvard that was one of the <a href="https://qz.com/1815829/harvard-university-is-shutting-down-because-of-coronavirus/">first major institutions</a> to shut down in March of 2020, and <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/12/18/covid-remote-january/">did it yet again</a> during the surge in late 2021.
There is a colossal tragedy in all this, of course, something that should pinch our souls and shake us out of our collective national slumber. By allowing our young people to wallow in misery, by removing the fixtures and totems of young life that allow us to dance with delight and experience the splendorous joys of simply being young and alive, we have exchanged nectar for vinegar. 
We have robbed a generation of that precious and fleeting segment of life where everything seems possible, where love is still mysterious and friendship is rapturous, where unread books still possess enchanting treasures and the future seems to pulsate with high sounding words like grandeur, potentiality, and magic.
At this brief but special juncture of life our families have yet to come to fruition, our professional dreams have yet to take flight, and the enormity of our spiritual lives have yet to come into focus. Our lives at this point seem to brim with vastness. But that is not what our young people see today. They feel lonely, empty, friendless, and sad. They are anxious and largely ignorant about the meaningful connections that make the human walk a joyous journey to take.
Let’s not dunk too hard on Harvard. Let’s celebrate their research and use it to help our children out of the caves in which they are trapped.
Jeremy S. Adams is the author of Hollowed Out: A Warning About America&#8217;s Next Generation, recently released in paperback. He has taught American civics for 24 years in Bakersfield, California and was the 2014 California Teacher of the Year (DAR). You can follow him on Twitter @JeremyAdams6.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Harvard Study Admits It: Conservatives Were Right All Along

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What does an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivy League</a> education get you in the year 2022? Life lessons on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">democracy</a> and media from the likes of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/brian-stelter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Stelter</a>, apparently.
The ex-CNN anchor just <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/stelter-shorenstein-fellow/?utm_source=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landed</a> a plush job as the Fall 2022 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School. Stelter, recently fired from CNN, has once again proven that in politics and media, the worst offenders tend to fail upwards.
&#8220;As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media,&#8221; Harvard said in an announcement. &#8220;These discussions with media leaders, policymakers, politicians, and Kennedy School students, fellows, and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.&#8221;
To his credit, Stelter has done something that defies the odds in 21st-century America. He landed an academic job as a white and straight male. Based on the Left&#8217;s standards — and Harvard&#8217;s student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admission</a> system — those immutable characteristics do little to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Nonetheless, Stelter is now an esteemed fellow at Harvard and can opine about &#8220;dangers&#8221; to democracy. In short, his class likely won&#8217;t be that much different from his Sunday show.
Stelter regularly spent his time parroting White House talking points — even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for tips on how to cover the Biden administration.  Thus, it probably is not an incorrect prediction to speculate his lectures will be chock-full of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-soul-of-joe-bidens-america-is-dark-as-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denigrating MAGA supporters</a> as &#8220;threats&#8221; like the White House has been doing in recent weeks.
Stelter also gave America a preview of how he handles college kids who challenge his ideas. He pretty much tells them they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re talking about and refuses to answer questions straightforwardly.
The University of Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brian-stelter-cant-handle-the-truth-from-a-college-kid-but-he-wants-your-trust-with-the-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference in April. Stelter was one of the &#8220;experts&#8221; given stage time.
NewsBusters’ Nicholas Fondacaro <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1512125598440824833?s=20&amp;t=IG7_gtEC-jLF-4jucITDuA">flagged</a> one student who pressed the then-CNN and CNN+ star on legacy media&#8217;s malfeasance.
“Freshman Christopher Phillips CALLS OUT Brian Stelter and CNN for being a ‘purveyor of disinformation,'&#8221; Fondacaro tweeted. &#8220;He points to the Russian collusion hoax, Jussie Smollett, the smears of Justice Kavanaugh and Nick Sandmann, and their dismissal of Hunter Biden’s laptop.”
Phillips noted that “all the mistakes of the mainstream media, and CNN in particular, seem to magically all go in one direction.”
&#8220;Are we expected to believe that this is all just some sort of random coincidence or is there something else behind it?” Phillips asked Stelter.
“I think my honest answer to you — and I’ll come over and talk in more detail after this — is that I think you’re describing a different channel than the one that I watch, but I understand that that is a popular right-wing narrative about CNN,” Stelter retorted.
“I think it’s important when we talk about shared reality and democracy, all these networks, all these news outlets have to defend democracy, and when they screw up — admit it,” Stelter added.
Yet he didn&#8217;t  &#8220;admit&#8221; that CNN botched and incorrectly reported the stories mentioned by Phillips. Instead, he simply dismissed them as part of a talking point contrived by the Right.
Stelter also claimed he was adversarial media because he once got into a shouting match with a Biden aide.
“So that’s the reality of the news business that people don’t see, that people don’t hear,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They imagine that it’s a situation that it simply is not. But I think your question, it speaks to the failure of journalism to show our work and show the reality of how our profession operates. We have a lot of work to do, I think.&#8221;
In other words, the issue with legacy media isn&#8217;t that it is driven by an overarching leftist bias and anti-Trump agenda, but the problem is that the American people are ignorant of how journalism really works.
According to the University of Chicago student, Stelter never did answer his question.
&#8220;Thank you @brianstelter for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans??&#8221; Phillips tweeted after the interaction.
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thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brianstelter</a> for taking my question and having a conversation with me afterwards, but i am STILL wondering: if CNN is truly unbiased, WHY is every mistake they make an overstep in favor of democrats and against republicans?? <a href="https://t.co/ofx0ghtrfD">https://t.co/ofx0ghtrfD</a>
&mdash; Chris Phillips 🚨🇺🇸 (@chrispthetruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrispthetruth/status/1512149034147926022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Now, Stelter is here to save the day by working to mold America&#8217;s next generation of media experts at Harvard.
The Ivy League school&#8217;s motto is &#8220;veritas&#8221; or &#8220;truth.&#8221;
The irony is that if Stelter had been focused on the truth – rather than essentially spending his time painting anybody to the right of Don Lemon as anti-American — he&#8217;d likely still be on CNN and not teaching at Harvard.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Failing Upwards: Brian Stelter Is Heading To Harvard

On Wednesday, leftist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard">Harvard</a> Law professor Laurence Tribe celebrated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Biden</a>’s plan to cancel student loan debt, catalyzing an avalanche of harsh criticism on social media.
Tribe lauded Biden’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for those who had received Pell Grants and as much as $10,000 for borrowers who made under $125,000 per year.
“Good news for thousands of my former students. I’m grateful on their behalf, Mr. President,” Tribe tweeted.
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Good news for thousands of my former students. I’m grateful on their behalf, Mr. President. <a href="https://t.co/FzmvcQNkli">https://t.co/FzmvcQNkli</a>
&mdash; Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1562465791014215681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Tribe’s elitist sentiments were widely mocked on Twitter.
<a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1562564468491849728">Erick Erickson</a>: “Bad news for those who went to state school or didn’t go to college. Good news for the privileged few who went to Harvard. Burn it all down, Republicans.”
Former FEC Commissioner <a href="https://twitter.com/CommishSmith/status/1562494822690091008">Brad Smith</a>: “Yes, because if there&#8217;s any group that needs federal financial assistance, it&#8217;s Harvard Law Grads. (Speaking as one of Prof. Tribe&#8217;s former students who actually paid back all student loans).”
<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1562519123854524417">JD Vance</a>: “Thanks to Tim Ryan and Joe Biden, Ohio workers are paying off the loans of Harvard Law students. If this seems unfair and illegal, it&#8217;s because it is.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1562596107045457921">Ted Cruz</a>: “Tax waiters &amp; waitresses to pay off the loans of Harvard Law School graduates. Great idea.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1562483675152781314">Mark Hemingway</a>: “Tribe teaches at Harvard, which has a $53 billion endowment. Why doesn&#8217;t Harvard forgive their loans? Why make blue collar taxpayers subsidize the debt of Harvard lawyers?”
<a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1562473636384059394">Matt Whitlock</a>: “Lower-income tax payers now get to pay for the law school student loans for Larry Tribe’s former students at Harvard Law School. The average income for a Harvard Law grad their first year after graduating is $152,000.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/EliLake/status/1562537207919185920">Eli Lake</a>: “Spare a thought for the recent Harvard law school graduate. They toil away in boardrooms and office suites and barely have enough to make ends meet. They are invisible to the rest of us, but at least our president can feel their pain.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1562588214090555395">Arthur Schwartz</a>: “The forgotten men and women of Harvard Law School forgotten no more.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/1562659492948426757">James Taranto</a>: “Thousands of your students are unable to earn enough money to pay off their loans? Good to know.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1562581868549382148">Jon Levine</a>: “Why do you work for an institution that has left thousands of your former students in need of government welfare? Shouldn’t Harvard chip in a bit too as opposed to taxpayers?”
<a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1562591099767894017">Donald Trump Jr</a>.: “Yes because thousands of Harvard Law grads need hard working blue collar workers to help them pay off their loans for them. Insane and disgusting.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1562481724390785024">Christina Pushaw</a>: “If you graduated from Harvard Law School and can’t find gainful employment to repay your debts, that’s on you.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/oren_cass/status/1562518586278944770">Oren Cass</a>: “Ivy League law professor thanks Joe Biden for unlawfully giving thousands of Ivy League law grads $10,000 a piece. Modern progressivism in one tweet.”
<a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1562677041790861313">Joe Concha</a>: “Tribe being thankful that his future rich Harvard Law students will be able to live comfortably under the Biden law forgiveness gambit says just about everything about elitism (and tone-deafness).”
In 2019, after the horrible shootings in both El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Tribe said that President Trump should be impeached “for inciting white nationalist terrorism and violence,” as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harvard-law-prof-accuses-trump-of-terrorism-calls-for-impeachment-after-shootings">Fox News</a> reported.

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Laurence Tribe

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Former New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-de-blasio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill de Blasio</a> has landed a new job teaching public health courses at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a>.
The former Big Apple mayor will join the faculty of Harvard this fall as a visiting fellow at both the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School, as well as a Senior Leadership Fellow at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He will teach courses in public health leadership at the School of Public Health, and appear at various programs at the Institute of Politics. The two schools introduced de Blasio in separate announcements Wednesday.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mayor de Blasio and [former Boston] Mayor [Kim] Janey to campus as Menschel Senior Leadership Fellows,” Dean Michelle A. Williams said in a statement to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-mlb-health-sports-education-115e4c03c5469553590e27fc4feaf165" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. “Their insights and their mentorship will be tremendously helpful to students who aspire to public office, as well as to those who are looking to lead in other sectors.”
In its announcement, the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/policy-translation-leadership-development/senior-leadership-fellows-program/news-events/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Public Health</a> touted de Blasio&#8217;s tenure as mayor of America&#8217;s largest city, particularly during the COVID pandemic.
“He led New York City through the COVID-19 pandemic, turning what was once a global epicenter into the safest city in the country,” the announcement said. The school also touted de Blasio&#8217;s record on issues outside COVID: his initiative to make early childhood education a universal right in the city; his affordable housing projects and action plan against homelessness; his activism and push for a citywide $15 per hour minimum wage; and his passage of the Climate Mobilization Act, also known as the NYC Green New Deal, and initiatives to make the city carbon-neutral by 2050, including ending fossil fuel fuel use in new buildings.
De Blasio will teach an eight-week long course on leadership, focused on navigating major issues in public health challenges, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-harvard.html">The New York Times</a> reported. He will also hold office hours and meet with students and faculty, and serve as a seminar speaker.
At the Institute of Politics, de Blasio will visit Harvard several times throughout the semester for a variety of discussions and other events.
“Mayor de Blasio’s decades of experience in local government, federal agencies, national campaigns, and running the largest city in the country will provide invaluable insight to our students and the Harvard community,” Setti Warren, the director of the <a href="https://iop.harvard.edu/about/newsletter-press-release/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-joins-institute-politics-fall-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute of Politics</a>, said in the news release Wednesday. “We are excited to welcome Mayor de Blasio to campus as we look for pathways forward on the challenges facing our democracy.”
De Blasio expressed his excitement on Twitter Wednesday. “I am VERY optimistic about the generation of leaders and activists coming up,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “It will be a privilege to offer lessons I’ve learned through decades of public service. My key message to them: we CAN make bold progressive change. I know because I’ve lived it.”
The Harvard position is likely a career boost for the former mayor of New York City, who has unsuccessfully sought higher political office several times recently. De Blasio dropped out of the 2020 presidential campaign early in the cycle. He was mulling a run for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nyc-democrat-mayor-bill-de-blasio-makes-his-decision-whether-to-run-for-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Governor of New York</a> in 2022, but decided against it. He then announced a run for Congress in the redrawn 10th Congressional District, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/failed-dem-presidential-candidate-bill-de-blasio-drops-out-of-another-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped out</a> ahead of the primary.

Bill de Blasio

De Blasio’s New Gig: Former NYC Mayor To Teach Public Health Course At Harvard This Fall

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio To Teach Public Health Course At Harvard In Fall

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While <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> rejects investments related to fossil fuels and is suffering in the current <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/stock-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stock market</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas</a> is continuing to lease its land for <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/oil-and-gas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oil</a> drilling, and its endowment could overtake Harvard&#8217;s.
Most elite universities grow their multibillion-dollar investment pools through stock market assets, private equity, and venture capital. At the end of fiscal year 2020, Harvard boasted a $41.9 billion endowment — the largest in the country — while the University of Texas followed in third place with a $30.5 billion endowment, according to data from the <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=73">Department of Education</a>.
Yet a plummeting stock market in the first half of 2021 may have poised the endowment of the University of Texas, which earns $6 million per day through its 2.1 million acres of oil fields in the Permian Basin, to become the nation&#8217;s largest as Harvard and other top schools take losses, according to data from <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-harvard-university-of-texas-richest-college-oil-endowments/">Bloomberg</a>. The University of Texas is enjoying record income from rising oil prices as hundreds of drilling companies, such as ConocoPhillips and Continental Resources, procure fossil fuels from its land.
At the end of last year, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow announced that the university would allow its remaining investments in the fossil fuel industry to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/9/10/divest-declares-victory/">expire</a> while refusing to adopt new ones. The move came after aggressive campaigns from student activists.
“President Bacow’s language showed, however, that Harvard still remains afraid to fully sever ties with the fossil fuel industry,” an article from <a href="https://divestharvard.medium.com/tireless-organizing-yields-harvard-divestment-victory-b68f43b271a1">Divest Harvard</a> claimed. “Never once has it used the word ‘divest,’ even as it is now making clear commitments to undertake the divestment process. That cowardice and its deadly consequences should not go unnoticed.”
More broadly, Harvard works to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into its investment processes, according to <a href="https://www.hmc.harvard.edu/sustainable-investing/">Harvard Management Company</a>, which has set the explicit goal of achieving a net zero emission portfolio by 2050.
Amid the most recent stock market downturn, however, ESG investments tended to suffer the most — especially through exposing themselves to the technology sector while continuing to scorn fossil fuel investments. Though technology companies are known for bankrolling social justice initiatives in reaction to national events like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-year-after-george-floyd-americas-biggest-corporations-earmark-37-billion-for-racial-equity">death of George Floyd</a> or the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-woke-businesses-vowing-to-cover-travel-costs-for-employees-abortion-tourism">overturning of Roe v. Wade</a>, they were also the first to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/recession-fears-lead-big-tech-companies-to-pause-hiring-cut-jobs">lay off</a> large portions of their staff as the stock market began its months-long tailspin.
For instance, iShares’ <a href="https://www.ishares.com/us/products/308574/ishares-esg-msci-usa-leaders-etf">ESG Aware MSCI ETF</a> — which has its largest holdings in companies like Microsoft, Tesla, and Alphabet — is down over 14% since the beginning of 2022, slightly lower than the overall S&amp;P 500 index. Meanwhile, iShares’ <a href="https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239741/ishares-global-energy-etf">Global Energy ETF</a> — dominated by oil and gas conglomerates like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Shell — has risen nearly 36% over the same time period.
While university endowments and leading asset managers continue to operate under the assumptions of ESG, an exclusive poll from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-by-two-to-one-margin-investors-reject-woke-companies-pushing-political-causes">The Daily Wire</a> recently indicated that American investors prefer to keep profits and social activism apart from one another. While 29% of respondents agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to leverage their financial power for political or social means supported by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”

Harvard’s Endowment Suffers Through Woke Investing While The University Of Texas Drills Oil And Rakes In Cash

Harvard's Endowment Suffers Through Woke Investing While The University Of Texas Drills Oil And Rakes It In

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