Do you donate to your alma mater? How and why you should STOP

Every dollar you donate to an ideologically captured university is a nudge toward censorship and ideological entrenchment. You can make a difference by ceasing donations and communicating your support for free expression and open inquiry.

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[DblOSmith]

Hell no. There were some good profs, but my university was exactly how you described. I wouldn't ever give them a penny.

[tmjtpyd]

No lol. My state school attendance went from 2k students a year to 1k in the past few years. I don't even want my kids to pursue college, and I can't believe I'm saying that.

[MurrRockstroh]

We stopped donating many years ago and always tell them once they adopt FIRE's website, I'll start donating again. It hasn't worked so far.

[xzist]

I graduated in 2009 and I'm still paying off my student loans. The cost of higher education was outrageous then and its only gotten more outrageous since. Top that off with the fact that the quality of the education at most of these schools has decreased... No way in hell would I donate to them. They received more than enough money for my education anyway - why would I give them more!?

[palaceofwisdom]

I attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1994-1998. Even then feminism permeated classes beyond the social sciences, and we were encouraged to use "I feel" statements rather than focusing on verifiable facts. I only wish that indoctrination was a new problem.

[TheBerkeleyBeauty]

They got enough of my damn money. Go Cal 🐻!

[OnimenoJason]

I don't. As long as they all use pronouns in their bios and signatures, they won't get a cent out of me.

[keres]

Kansas State University is #2 overall:

38% of students say shouting down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus is never acceptable.
50% of students say they have rarely or never self-censored on campus.
39% of students say they are not worried about damaging their reputation because someone misunderstands something they have said or done.


In other words:


62% of students think it is at least sometimes acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus
50% of students self-censor more than rarely
61% of students are afraid of reputational damage due to misunderstanding

This is empirical confirmation that free speech no longer exists on college campuses to *any* degree.

[anisenkrill]

I get called twice a year. It's always a young woman studying in STEM, never someone from the LA side of campus. I wish I would get a call from someone in Gender Studies, but it never happens. The universities aren't dumb. There is usually an option to donate to the individual student who is calling rather than the school (they are not allowed to volunteer this information). I addition to what they are studying and where they are from, I also ask if they are currently working while in school and what they do for work. I usually end up donating to the student.

[curtisloftis]

Thanks for your continued good work...

[Joe_Public]

I do not. In fact I my kids university to take me off their list. I told the alumni Association that the school was doing more harm than actually teaching our children how to think. My decision came after I found out that the school was doing segregated graduations. For me with good conscious, I couldn’t support an organization that undermines the basic foundation of equality. They haven’t called back since.

[microsoftpain]

I have disliked being in college nearly every day since I've been enrolled. I'm there to get my degree and get out.

[goldenvulture]

As a left-winger I couldn't agree more

[_Sme__ne]

I've never given money to my alma maters and never would. I've never understood the reasoning behind it, never understood why anyone other than the ridiculously wealthy would donate money to a college.

[richardinmaryland]

I stopped donating to my woke name-brand alma maters, which are overendowed anyway. I now donate to my father's alma mater, which made my upbringing possible. It's a state engineering school that teaches valuable subjects, mainly to students who, like my dad, did not come from privileged backgrounds. It's a school that improves the lives of its students and their families and their communities.

[cpennie]

You should consider adding PragerU which is not a university at all but they have great content and are a 501(c)3 😊

[gothicm]

At 0:42 the word "intolerance" is misspelled.

[Voltroc]

Ball State barely did anything for me, so I never gave them a cent other than my initial tuition. Screw collages.

[bradvandyke]

Well, I've been thinking about going back to get the bachelors I quit on in about '91. Stuff like this gets me having second thoughts real fast.

[taylorcuthrell]

Well Peter I graduated with a degree in political science and my first job was bagging groceries for less money than I made when I was in high school as a life guard who at the time did not even have a degree of any sort. My second job was flipping burgers at the local bowling alley. My THIRD job with a degree was working on a manufacturing line. So thankfully I have not had the means to donate to my alma matter. It took me the better part of a decade to earn a job I was qualified for straight out of high school, but I now work in pharma purifying proteins for vaccines. Given how worthless my degree has been in the marketplace, due I'm sure in no small part to the issues you touch on in Sokal pt 2, I really don't plan on donating to an institution that so blatantly failed me. The two things I got at my state university were a victimhood anti capitalist complex and the axiom that "correlation does not equal causation."