How US Universities Became Glorified Hedge Funds

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Since the 1980s, US universities have pivoted away from education to profit, directing billions towards risky and ethically dubious investment strategies that don't always pay off. So have American universities just become glorified hedge funds?
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[@getnohappy]

What caught my eye was that a UK university student now owes more on average than a US one

[@caseypenk]

Forgive me for my ignorance, but I thought UK public universities were completely free?

[@ProtocolAbyss]

@@caseypenk scottish ones are, if your born in scotland that it. but normal unis cost somewhere ~ 9K a year

[@jonevansauthor]

@@caseypenk they used to be but then some genius called Tony Blair asked why students shouldn't pay their own way after all, only they benefit from their education. And then we found out the answer.

[@t1metzger]

True, although I'd argue the UK system is more of a graduate tax. UK Tuition fees certainly have gone up a lot, but you only make repayments if you earn above a certain amount and the debt is forgiven if you still owe anything after 30 years.

[@rikerpasterkiewicz9545]

The background music for the 1st minute is horrible. It clashes with your voice so much it makes it impossible to concentrate on what you're saying. I had to pause the video multiple times to make sure I wasn't going crazy or it was coming from another tab.

[@bzuidgeest]

You are overly sensitive

[@Justalilguy69]

You need to tone down you’re sensitivity mate

[@prashanthb4565]

Nah, I agree with the OP. The music was horrible

[@bzuidgeest]

@@prashanthb4565 the music wasn't great, but if your so weak of mind you need to pause the video because of it, you need professional help.

[@jellycube3648]

The inital music is annoying and makes it harder to hear you

[@gregoryturk1275]

I agree.

[@tonysuckadickliano2090]

yeah it may be more useful to shorten the intro to something like a morning news show “university endowments at the center of US protests, that and more on TLDR [date]”

[@severn7]

Less than 100 colleges have an endowment of over $1bn, just 2.5% of all of the 4000 in the US. It's incorrect to say that most have over $1bn.

[@KamiInValhalla]

Does that 4000 include the public universities he said they will exclude?

[@severn7]

@@KamiInValhalla About 1600 of those 4000 are public, so yes, but I only included private colleges so still 100 colleges have over $1bn out of around 2400. Still off to say most have over a $1bn endowment.

[@severn7]

I imagine he is referencing to the 7 ivy league colleges, most of which do have an over $1bn endowment. However, their median debt is around $18,000 because they use their large endowment for financial aid. I like TLDR, but in this video they have referenced different figures for different groups to make their point stand.

[@Theaverageazn247]

the issue is that harvad has like 40 bil in assets yet they charge insane fees.

[@fosterwhales1027]

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[@fosterwhales1027]

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[@fosterwhales1027]

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[@charleyluckey2232]

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[@evansnjuguna8315]

Ironic that they are sources of knowledge yet produce sub-par performances in they’re endowments. One would think that they would employ or tap all the lecturers and students to give them an edge in the markets.

[@waterbloom1213]

A lot of econ, finance, and science professors and students have strong math backgrounds and are tempted to engage in quantitative finance in order to try and beat the market. For a time they do and also get prestige and money because their personal income is not 100% tied to market performance, but in the long term most pros cannot even beat a passive indexing strategy. Paul Samuelson noticed this in the seventies, and this led his student John C Bogle to create the first ETF Index. Universities not winning does not surprise me at all.

[@IsYitzach]

On May 2nd, Scott Galloway's TED talk was posted to the TED KZbin channel. In it, he said that universities had become hedge funds that taught classes and did research. He was not amused.

[@ibrahimyusuf677]

I'm favoured, $27K every week! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God works and the church. God bless American .

[@PhilipJackson-zd9bi]

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[@PhilipJackson-zd9bi]

She's a licensed broker here in the states

[@JohnJackson-st1ji]

she's mostly on Telegrams, using the user name👎

[@JohnJackson-st1ji]

Anna_Dees02 💯 that's it

[@JohnJackson-st1ji]

She'll guide you definitely 🇺🇸☝️

[@exentrikk]

I can't for the love of me comprehend why university endowment funds need to be managed by finance "professionals" when they can be run much more efficiently under the supervision of the university's own senior finance and economics academicians who publish research that these finance "professionals" themselves employ?!

[@jonevansauthor]

100% they absolutely don't need fund managers. Just buy shares, and own them. It's not that hard.

[@andredriem2]

Being a good finance/economics academic in is not the same as being a good fund manager.

[@exentrikk]

@@andredriem2 nothing is the same as being a good fund manager because if you watched the video good fund managers don't exist

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

Because they are both full time jobs? Even if economics professors made good fund managers, if you want them to teach and research, then that has to be their primary role.

[@Boredblacksheep]

Because those who babble only theory do not want to dirty their hands with practice.

[@MCSpear7]

Music clashes with your voice before the intro

[@NQR-9000]

It's so interresting to see how both UK and US economy have evolved more and more during the last 40 years into systems that focus in producing money without producing goods or services. It's not surprising that such environment creates people with absolutely no notion of how an economy works and who fall in such large numbers for cryptos and meme-stocks...

[@Miamcoline]

Very well said. Never thought of it that way but they could literally just put all those funds in index funds. They would make more profit and pay way less in fees!

[@pb25193]

The goal isn't to help students. The 2% fee takers are their own nephews and cousins.

[@YossiSirote]

You didn’t mention the university endowments tax free status. Which I believe should be stripped away at this point.

[@caseclosed9342]

My pastor when I was a kid went to Princeton Theological Seminary and once told me at the time the seminary had the second-largest endowment of any religious institution in the world after only the Vatican…

[@bobeg749]

I think the students have a good point when they question how the endowments are invested. There’s a fundamental conflict between the values presumably held by the universities and the questionable ways they support and enable the very things they deplore.

[@DarkHarlequin]

Imagine paying 60% of profits to Hedgefunds and still underperforming the market all while holding education (young peoples real only way to any kind of economic mobility) hostage and being praised as the 'best universities in the world' in rankings still 😖😖

[@geardo3635]

You would think someone would just say, "Reverse what Swinson did since it failed, go back to bonds."

[@sobs291]

Erm, US private universities often do receive generous federal grants.

[@texmj123]

half the countries on that map have a gdp over $50 billion?

[@Hasanaljadid]

Definitely not Bangladesh and uzbekistan

[@cauthrim4298]

​​@@HasanaljadidUzbekistan's GDP is 98billion usd, you should at least check before writing bull

[@the80386]

@@Hasanaljadid bangladesh gdp is more than 450 Billion and growing. the map is definitely inaccurate.

[@OPOS-el7tj]

I like how this channel is more in-depth in its analysis than your other channels!

[@mkb6418]

Transparency is the key here. This will cause pressure by students and academics choosing different universities

[@xiphoid2011]

I don't think there is anything wrong with investing the endowment money, but the problem is they overpay fee AND underperformed. Like the video said, if that's the case, then they should have just used a diversified set of index funds.

[@paulbo9033]

Answer: politicians and capitalism selling masses down the river.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

It's very clear that low cost index funds outperform active investing in the average case. So it's pretty ironic that universities choose active investing. Of course it's obviously just corrupt. But assuming it wasn't it's silly.

[@nero1727]

Jeez the music is annoying

[@MSportsEngineering]

Thanks TLDR Business Daddies

[@KerbalFacile]

Universities investing the money they got into stocks and funds instead of teaching and researching. Another facet of the Squeeze.

[@sigmundfraud124]

Awesome video! Great explainer about how it all works.

[@renegadepuppy]

Saying MIT is part of Ivy League is like saying UCL is part of Oxbridge. Ivy League has nothing to do with ranking but all about a sports competition. Stanford, UChicago, Rice, Northwestern, Duke all are top private universities in top 10-12 in the country which are better than many of the Ivy League universities. This is a thing which most people don’t get but people at TLDR should know.

[@davidmurray737]

Music sound bed is a Chet Faker soundalike

[@urbanarmory]

Scott Galloway has some really good ideas for how to deal with this

[@undercoverduck]

Why do alumni donate to their universities anyway? You already paid your tuition. I'd understand it somewhat if it those donations were invested directly into the university, but what's the point of bolstering an already enormous investment portfolio?

[@Elcaballerodesigilo]

Because many times they are rich fcks that in practice bought a title from a renowed university, so they are invested in such title holding its value, plus probably getting his offspring to attend the same university to get the same title. It's like feudal lords but with extra steps.

[@stevefan8283]

moral obligation

[@undercoverduck]

@@stevefan8283 What moral obligation? What more could be owed than the tuition fees that are already paid?

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

There was a time not long ago when universities really did put their students first and provided very memorial experiences, lessons, and networking. People came out of these universities often very grateful for the experience and felt a desire to give back to the institution that gave them so much so that others could enjoy it as well. They then went on to be business leaders and politicians who made decisions as if that was how universities still were but unfortunately as this video points out, that time has long passed. Also donating a lot of money to a university basically ensures that your child gets in and that they will graduate so long as they don’t like, murder another student or something insane like that.

[@alexlehrersh9951]

A bond between you and your sucessors And if you earn millions a year you feel the moral obligation for the institution

[@liranzaidman1610]

This is super important

[@johnlane8053]

The background music is really jarring

[@BarryStanton1488]

Should've just put it all in the S&P 500, lmao.

[@thementalhealth2465]

Please cut the backround music. We come here to cut and dry, factual news. You guys excel at this where most news outlets fail.

[@madfreacmocrazi6093]

7:07 Is there a Wits in America or was that a editing error?

[@jonevansauthor]

Good call. But she also wrote 'go to class' except that you don't go to classes at university, you attend lectures. Because it's a university not a school. Surprised she didn't know that, if she's a student.

[@IntelligentQuads]

Endowments not beating the market is expected since the investment strategy would be trading off maximum growth for downside protection "hedging". In theory the lower yeilding investments would be better in an econmonic pull back compared to an index fund.

[@Sco10]

Say what you want about whether this should be possible or not, but IMO Universities should invest in volatile long term stuff. Like Green Transition technologies, space etc. If they play the same game as the banks, the system gets locked in. Universities shouldn't just educate to fuel a boring system with workers, but to push the boundaries. If they don't do that, we leave it to chance and bored billionaires. Edit: also investing in scholarships for entrepreneurial poor students so they can afford to try and make a company and not become salary slaves for 40 years to pay off their student loans (and investing in their companies). Its like these funds are just numbers and percentages to them. Completely detached from reality

[@alexlehrersh9951]

Better in nuclear power and fudion

[@Sco10]

@@alexlehrersh9951 Those are green transition technologies

[@CarlosKTCosta]

Before even watching the video: Money is involved = nothing will change

[@spacegiraffe1596]

Just pointing out a small error. MIT is not an ivy league institution.

[@veraxiana9993]

Shocking theory but maybe perhaps universities shouldn't be for profit because it inherently requires de prioritizing students & education

[@vinniechan]

Interesting angle I thinknonce you are sitting on a pile of assets.which you neee them to generate returns, you will bexome your own hedge fund at some point The investment returns should go towards lowering fees, general upkeep of the insititutions and advancements if academic research

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

Am I the only one who couldn't hear the first minute's music at all?

[@ARandomDonut]

Who's gonna tell this guy that MIT isn't an Ivy

[@KuKn10dbao]

2:39 Uhh, no, MIT is not in the Ivy League. It's an elite university, but it's not an Ivy. That take like 2 seconds to Google search 😬😬

[@davidcounter3612]

University of Illinois spotted :)

[@michaelotoole1807]

that background music is terribly annoying.

[@Meander_]

Seems you've been taking notes from the last viral TED Talk.

[@xtopia9758]

Get rid of the music lol

[@sabsab9126]

Public schools also have endowments.

[@mofo78536]

They can still be good at being a hedge fund, but that doesn't mean they should. If investing in things that makes the world worse pays more, it still an incorrect choice even if they can do it better than teaching.

[@alexlehrersh9951]

Oil and weapons dont make the worldworse

[@Thedarkknight2244]

Insane if you couple this video with the uk universities going broke video

[@rffinances8567]

It seems like this video is conflating several separate but related topics. First, I think the idea of an endowment makes sense and director donations towards it can be a good idea. That way, instead of the donation having a one-time good, it can be invested with the gains from that investment doing good for many years/decades into the future. Though I am curious how much the universities withdraw every year from the endowment to help with expenses. If it's 3-4%, that would probably make sense; less than that, then they are just hoarding it. The poor returns really does show that they are being managed poorly. I get that universities might not be experts in investments, but standard passive investing should work well. Put most of it in a diversified stock index fund for long-term return and put some in corporate and government bonds for short-term stability. Though if the universities have board members pressuring the university to make these complicated investments through the companies, the board members have connections to...that's where the issue is - a conflict of interest. There's also the question of if the universities have these endowments that are growing, and at least in theory should be producing more investment gains to cover the university's expenses, then why are tuition costs continuing to rise? Poor investing performance might be part of the issue, but there's a bigger issue of high university costs. I've heard that this is because of higher admin and overhead costs, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on the details. That would be a good video topic though. The topic of Ken Griffin withholding donations to pressure schools also seems separate from the topic of endowments. He's trying to use his financial leverage to get the schools to do what he wants, but this would be true whether or not the universities were using endowments.

[@SkepticalRaptor]

MIT is NOT an Ivy League university.

[@wilfredpeake9987]

I wouldnt even say they are good at teaching. My uni never cared about its students. The university only goal is to maintain a steady and consistent flow of revenue. The jobs they offered where absolute shit. I got a finance degree yet im working as a waiter its fucking bs

[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

Commenting 4 algorithm

[@urbanarmory]

Couple of things -there's no question that these should just be index funds, theres no reason for all the investment efforts -the hedgefundification is something affectinf the giant Ivys and the like, its not widespread, but the most messed up achools are definitely the worst examples -Claudine Gay didnt get forced out for "not condemning anti-Israel protests" FFS, come on. The newest congressional report lays out exactly how intentionally inactive she was around serious Jewish student issues including direct violence - Israeli companies make up a miniscule portion of the US stock market and most US universities already don't invest in things like military manufacturers, making this as per usual a big show -I don't understand the logic that students should have any authority around how their colleges are run, it seems like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum, but clearly that's an approach a lot of these schools are into... From my perspective, it isnt working oit for them, but in the end its their choice

[@BrickGriff]

"Became"? Also... just the US?

[@EtherStrandedInALibrary]

In general, universities serve a couple of purposes. First, and foremost, they are the habitat of academics - traditionally people who work on topics that are not profitable but nevertheless drive growth (think graph theory being a niche branch of mathematics before our current world of GPS made it essential). Secondly, they're there to educate the next set of experts, as well as train "niche" skills to people looking to enter better paid jobs. Thirdly, they act as places to explore societal issues, with discourse between the young (students) and the old (academics) helping bridge ideas between generational gaps. Universities are not, by their nature, designed to make a profit; they are designed to profit the nation in which they sit by providing more workers able to work in high value-adding niche industries. They also profit society as a whole from the notions that arise from them. If you're running a university for profit, you're doing it wrong.

[@JLBarahonaM]

I’m wondering if there are connections between those finance people and the universities. Bet there are conflicts of interest.

[@urbanarmory]

If you really want to see conflict of interest, look into foreign dark money investment into American universities

[@bignigel2360]

error : they have labelled Greenland as a country

[@joesonnefeld9296]

They have to pay for retirement benefits somehow

[@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup]

Ty for covering this. It has been largely ignored / buried in the US bc the powers that be don't like it.

[@motianton]

who're the powers that be?

[@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup]

@@motianton our major news conglomerates are owned and run by either the same people or people whose vested interests would be hurt by universities divesting from universities. Add in the inherent need to control public opinion rather than inform and the US msm news is basically useless (on both sides of the bias).

[@NQR-9000]

@@motianton Hedge funds managers (of any origin, race, gender or religion, whatever too many try to imply...)

[@SEAZNDragon]

The Power That Be are doing a horrible job of it if people been complaining about it for years.

[@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup]

@@motianton yt didn't like my response so follow the money and follow the power.

[@Fanaro]

Keiretsu patterns

[@kimandre336]

You are absolutely right.

[@alexlehrersh9951]

7:02 So the hedge fond did something good here

[@tryrshaughroad551]

I think it's disingenuous to compare capital with GDP. GDP is a sort of a yearly income/expsense measure, not a measure of wealth. If you wanted to compare Harvard's endowment fund with countries' GDP, you'd have to make an assumption for the yearly ROI of that fund and multiply that by the size of the fund. In that sense, Harvard generates more or less as much wealth each year as a small and impoverished African State. Which is still a lot of money!

[@richardwood6146]

Claudine Gay was asked to step down because she refused to confirm that calling for the genocide of Jews constituted misconduct on her campus. Not because she refused to condemn anti-Israel protests on campus.

[@__Dave__]

There are only four ways to arrive at a large endowment relative to the size of the school: 1-Donors contributed a shitload, 2-The school overcharged students and put the remainder into the endowment, 3-The endowment was long assets while the Fed destroyed the dollar, or 4-The fund managers did their jobs and delivered outsized returns. The answer is probably #3 tbh

[@joesonnefeld9296]

Depends on what laws allowed in the state they are in.

[@MayorMcC666]

are you implying there is an index fund that isn't associated with israel?

[@harrisharris5276]

MIT is not part of the Ivy League.

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

1:46 what is this goody ah chart algeria and Bangladesh have several times that of gdp

[@I_Be_Major]

That stupid background music is distracting please stop

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

What is this goofy as sound

[@heimrath007]

MIT is not Ivy League

[@prembagui7104]

Why do you people put up absurd charts, do really think bangladesh have a gdp less than 50 Billion dollars

[@herisuryadi6885]

Probably a mistake

[@PiotrNowak87]

Maybe they should take one of the Brilliant data courses "to get a better grasp on these kind of things."

[@average_rite]

​@@PiotrNowak87ahahahahahaha nice one

[@NotSoHeavyD3]

I'm going to be blunt, you guys don't know what you're talking about. Well ok, the part about becoming hedge funds, that's right. But there's the not so secret dirty little secret about universities. They're research institutes that do undergrad education on the side because they have to.(And it shows) Speaking as someone that went to a private uni in the late 80's early 90's I can tell you that they weren't even good at it and they didn't want to do it. What they and the professors really cared about was research and getting research grant money and publishing. So if anybody figured they'd get a better (or even good) education by going to a top US research university be prepared to be disappointed while your professors basically ignore you. (I'm a bit jaded, it would have been nice if universities really wanted to do undergrad education but they simply don't and I wish I had known this before I attended.) Anyway I figure everyone is better off knowing the truth than some deluded fantasy. (Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.)

[@danisraelmalta]

Anti Israel protests, not pro palestine.

[@alexlehrersh9951]

which is not wrong

[@KneelBeforeBlue]

MIT is not Ivy League. WTF

[@cobracommander8133]

Ivy+

[@hydoffdhagaweyne1037]

What are you smoking dpshit? It is an Ivy League University.

[@titanicisshit1647]

when you get rejected by MIT :

[@jonevansauthor]

True but it's hilarious that you are bothered by that. Unless you went to MIT in which case I understand why you'd be insulted being associated with non-academic institutions.

[@Hasanaljadid]

1:48 I think uzbekistan and Bangladesh GDP is well over 50 billion dollars

[@RangerTwo]

Bangladesh GDP is over $460 billion.

[@darksars3622]

Skip da ad 9:15

[@MCorpReview]

Well they do need to make 😂money if y😢u want them to provide scholarships and 😅facilities improvements 😅

[@bgt54rfvcde32wsxzaq1]

"Maths" Spoken like a true Brit. 🧐

[@priceprice_baby]

Spoken like someone who speaks English correctly!

[@jonevansauthor]

You mean, correctly as it is in English? This is the reason you don't want to go to a hedge fund university or you might end up not thinking about who gets to decide how their language works. It's us, the Spanish, French, Germans, Italians, Japanese, Koreans and so on. It's not colonials who want to mangle the language. ;)

[@gilberttello08]

✋✋ Philippines

[@TheYakovKagan]

The amount of bad takes in this video is stunning. I'm really surprised as you tend to get it right most of the time. Here are 5. 1. (1:43) "University endowments are unbelievably massive, with most worth more than $1B". - That is not accurate. While the AVERAGE is $1.2B, that is skewed by the Harvard's of the world, and the median actually being ~$200M or around 5X less. 2. (1:50) "The biggest, Harvard, is worth more than $50B, which is more than the total GDP of 120 countries". You just compared a university's savings (endowment) to countries' incomes (GDP), these are not comparable. You should be comparing income to incomes, and Harvard's last year was $6B, which is far less than the $50B you're referencing. 3. (4:03) "A 2022 working paper from economist George Bulman found that spending of endowment profits on student aid was statistically insignificant". Yes, its statistically insignificant, but actually very significant in general. The net cost of these top universities like Harvard is $15K, largely subsidized by endowment profits. "Scholarships" are different than need-based aid, and including need-based aid, shows that these top universities in particular have done a remarkable job of capping student cost, very much thanks to donations and their endowment performance. 4. (4:25) "Universities are sitting on huge piles of cash while simultaneously squeezing students and academics dry." What is that based on? Is there data-based evidence of this? 5. (4:53) "The average university endowment underperformed the market in 12 of the last 15 years." You're cherrypicking years to make a point. Overall, while the return is "unexceptional", it has beaten the stock market, and certainly the bonds that you mentioned previously.

[@bundnar2212]

I'm sorry, but this video was quite bad. You tried to scandalized donors, pausing their donations, but donations are meant be voluntary. It's their complete right, to stop donating, when they think the university goes in the wrong way. Moreover, you should mention bds without explaining their antisemitism

[@caseypenk]

Small correction: MIT is not an Ivy League (despite it being more prestigious than Cornell, Dartmouth, or Brown). The way to remember this is that no city has two Ivy Leagues and Harvard and MIT are both in Cambridge.

[@jonevansauthor]

Yes but no-one needs to remember this as it's exactly the equivalent of doing a theology degree - a complete waste of time and brain space.

[@0ptic0p22]

when i was young in india i wanted to go to usa now YOU CANT PAY ME TO GO IN THAT SHIT HOLE

[@IFRYRCE]

You guys leaving out that Claudine Gay committed plagarism in basically everything she'd ever written is a pretty major (biased, even?) oversight. Granted, I'm not a fan of the pro-Israel pressure being applied to universities, but that woman is/was a travesty in her own right. Even worse that she was retained on tenure as a professor after being forced to resign as president. A student would've been kicked out of university if they'd plagarized that much - the punishment should be even more severe for a faculty member who did the same.

[@myleshungerford7784]

$1 billion dollars really isn’t that much for a large institution. It would probably only cover a year or two of operations.

[@Yaarmehearty]

Another US focused video? When is the full stars and stripes rebrand happening?

[@humanperson8418]

The worlds largest companies are all American. That might explain why TLDR Business focuses mainly on the US.

[@eliasmai6170]

running educational institutions causes money and it can't solely be dependent on government funding and tuition fees as source of money or purely through donations.

[@abendahan]

The bias in this video is frankly insulting.... most private universities do not have endowments worth over a billion dollars (no idea where you got that number, but it's hilariously high), board seats at American universities have always had a strong representation of professionals from the financial sector (especially if those universities have strong or highly publicized business faculties - which many do), and to insinuate that Claudine Gay had to step down from Harvard's presidency because of her stance on Israel (ignoring the fact that her specific comments in her Congressional testimony were not about Israel but about Jewish people, thereby making them antisemitic, not 'resisting calls to condemn anti-Israel demonstrations') and not the repeated and serious cases of plagiarism in her academic work, is just plain misinformation. The increase in the 'editorializing' of your videos to consistently pass off your opinions as news in the last six months has been disheartening to say the least. TLDR used to be a fairly objective source that I could get fairly unbiased updates from, but that reality seems to increasingly be from a long time ago, with little chance of returning.

[@IVWOR]

💪🇮🇱❤️

[@pbrown0829]

Miss Gay was asked to step down because she plagiarized multiple papers. The mere fact you didn’t even mention that for why she was fired is concerning.

[@Emiltecknar]

Not even that the hole thing started becouse she wouldent condem ”from the river to the sea” as a anti semitic slogan. Tdlr quality programing as usual

[@extrapolate]

They’re so transparent, it’s ridiculous. She’s a plagiarizer incompetent DEI hire that should be banned from academia altogether. Absolutely shameful.

[@Bloodwolfz4]

Nope it was because of the Jewish Zionist

[@sixfiftyfive2386]

You've totally missed the real issue related to the third-world encampments on US campuses - foreign funding

[@jonevansauthor]

Tell me you never went to university without telling me you never went. Third world. What is this, the 1970s?

[@TheDonnyl]

@ 06:57 This is a very misleading sentence. She resigned not because she "refused to condemn anti-israel protests" but because she refused to answer if calling for the genocide against the Jews is against the university policy.

[@santiagoalcantara3806]

Instead of universities relaying in donations and hedges funds why not simply increase taxes to the rich which benefits more os skill labour and make an independent and less costly for people. Oh i remember we live in capitalism and this is one of the forms of opresion throw economic power

[@alexlehrersh9951]

Found the woke comunist

[@NaturalistScott]

Man isn't Capitalism great /s

[@alexlehrersh9951]

Yep it is DEI and socialism is bad