vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 3 months agoTrump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvardwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down14
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minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 months agoharvard has money. lots of money… and alumni. lots of smart, powerful, wealthy alumni… he caved quicker than the front wheel assembly of a cybersuck.
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoTheir endowment as it sits essentially allows them to operate for something like a decade without any external money. And you can guarantee they’ll get a bump in alumni donations if external funding is removed like that.
minus-squareAdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI believe their endowment sits somewhere around $50 billion. They could definitely float for a few years until Trump is out of office.
harvard has money. lots of money… and alumni. lots of smart, powerful, wealthy alumni… he caved quicker than the front wheel assembly of a cybersuck.
Their endowment as it sits essentially allows them to operate for something like a decade without any external money. And you can guarantee they’ll get a bump in alumni donations if external funding is removed like that.
I believe their endowment sits somewhere around $50 billion. They could definitely float for a few years until Trump is out of office.