Writing for Campus Watch, Canadian journalist Barbara Kay has exposed the Islamist organizations behind the $2 million funding of a new chair in Islamic studies at Huron University College, an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario. The two principal donors are Muslim Association of Canada and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), both […]
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Jay Greene has compiled a list of political donations from the employees of the top ten U.S. News and World report universities. What did he find? The most “balanced” university in terms of donations was Duke, where 84% of donations and 81% of the overall dollar value went to Democratic candidates. How about the fabled […]
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Several college papers have come around to the ever-popular (and easy) study of university political donations. The results are no surprise. Here are a few samples Daily Bruin (UCLA): “Faculty Donors Lean Liberal” According to the Center for Responsive Politics Web site, which tracks individual and group donations to political parties, UCLA faculty members gave […]
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Senator Grassley, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, has turned his attention to the tax status of collegiate athletic programs – wondering “what gives the IRS comfort that they have met the requirements of being a charity.” The Chronicle furnishes Grassely abundant cause to wonder, reporting that athletics donations now amount to more than a […]
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