Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "Ivy League donor backlash just as much about DEI as it is about free speech, says Eric Dezenhall" video.

  1. Anyone can have a say, but a donation should not allow one to specify how it will be spent unless there is an agreement. For example, a donor might agree to fund a building for a particular purpose, or to fund a professor in a particular department. The donor should not be picking professors, so the university should not agree to that, but the donor should be able to terminate the arrangement if not satisfied with the quality of professors being given the position. There have long been sponsored professorships. I think it has worked fairly well until recently. When I was in college, decades ago, I don’t remember any controversy about a professor or administrator (including president) resembling this one. There was a demonstration supporting a few assistant (untenured) professors who were being released, that’s all.
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  2. These programs always pick words which, on their face, are unobjectionable. That is a superficial way to look at it. What matters is the substance of what is being done under that name.
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