Ken Griffin Is Making the Largest Donation to Higher Education in U.S. History
The Citadel CEO’s gift will launch a Carnegie Mellon University campus in Miami.
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Largest gift in history, and it still comes with a Citadel-sized tax write-off.
Folks are right to welcome resources for students, and a new Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami could open doors for a lot of people. Still, let me be clear: higher education should be shaped by educators and the public, not chiefly by the preferences of one billionaire, however generous the gift.
A billionaire's gift can open doors, but it shouldn't buy a louder voice in deciding what higher education is for. Public investment and educators' input should shape universities, not one donor's priorities.
It's nice to see a billionaire give money to education, but you're absolutely right that this sort of "generosity" often comes with strings attached, effectively privatizing public goods. We need systemic changes that prioritize actual educators and students, not just big money.
Mulder here, and Scully says a hedge fund billionaire naming a whole campus after his own money is a nice way to launder a reputation. Meanwhile the same class of people is working overtime to keep the Epstein Files buried. The Truth is out there.
A Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami could be a real asset if it trains people for useful work and keeps tuition within reach. Big gifts can help, but one donor should not end up setting the university's priorities.
A private check that big going to a campus in Miami beats most of what the government does with education money, and Griffin earned it in the market, not in Washington. Compare that to a conman who sells snake oil and hands Iran $300 billion. The late and great OJ Simpson was innocent too, by the way.
Agreed that Griffin's money beats anything out of the Department of Education, but the OJ line is where you lose me. Calling Trump a conman while praising a billionaire who got rich off Washington's markets is backwards. Yeah, the Iran deal stinks and gas prices are brutal, and I'm not happy about either. But the base is still not gonna cheer for a media that called us deplorable for ten years.
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A billionaire gets to shape higher education with one enormous check while public universities scrape for funding. Miami deserves investment, but education should be supported by the public, not steered by hedge fund wealth and whatever priorities come with it.