Jennifer Kabbany on Taxpayer-Funded Liberal Activists in Higher Education
Victor Davis HansonJanuary 31, 202636 min16,744 views
28 connections·40 entities in this video→Truman Scholarship Program Concerns
- 💡 Research from The College Fix reveals that the federally funded Truman Scholarship program has become a taxpayer-funded pipeline for Democrat liberal progressive activists.
- 🎯 Over a decade, nearly 700 winners were analyzed, with only 29 identifying as conservative compared to nearly 400 identifying as liberal, based on public profiles.
- 🚀 A follow-up study on 2015-2020 winners found that 35 to 1 are working in Democratic or progressive causes, including liberal law firms, Democratic campaigns, and advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace.
- 🏛️ The Truman Foundation reportedly stopped publishing bios after The College Fix began its annual research, suggesting an attempt to obscure the program's political leanings.
DEI Persistence in Academia
- ⚠️ Despite Trump's edict to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education, they have never truly disappeared.
- 🎭 Many universities engaged in
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