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Bard College Scores Massive $500 Million Donation from George Soros
Alana Mastrangelo
26 May 2021
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Left-wing billionaire George Soros has donated $500 million to tiny liberal arts school Bard College, located in Dutchess County, New York. According to Bard College, the notorious left-wing billionaire’s donation is “among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States.”

The donation, which is a challenge grant, is “among the largest ever made to higher education in the United States,” according to a statement by Bard College, which added that the grant will facilitate “Bard’s exemplary educational and social initiatives, establish the College’s most substantial endowment ever, and set the stage for a $1 billion endowment drive.”  ...

“Bard has played an innovative and progressive role in American education without any historical wealth; it will continue to do so with this new and highly competitive endowment, to ensure equity in financial aid, reform the relationship between higher education and secondary education, promote international education, and defend the arts, the humanities and basic science as the essence of the liberal arts,” Botstein added.

In Bard’s announcement, the university also pointed out that it is one of the founding partners of “the new Open Society University Network,” in partnership with Soros’ Open Society Foundations. ...
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The Open Society Univ. Network members:
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Founding Members
 
 Bard College     
    (New York, United States)
    Central European University   
    (Vienna, Austria)

Members

    Al-Quds University/Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences (Palestine)
    American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
    American University in Bulgaria
    American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
    Arizona State University (United States)
    Ashesi University (Ghana)
    Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College (United States)
    Bard College Berlin (Germany)
    Bard Early Colleges (United States)
    Birkbeck, University of London (United Kingdom)
    Bocconi University (Italy)
    BRAC University (Bangladesh)
    European Humanities University (Lithuania)
    European University Institute (Florence)
    Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva)
    Hertie School (Berlin)
    London School of Economics (United Kingdom)
    National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan)
    National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania)
    Sciences Po in Paris (France)
    SOAS University of London (United Kingdom)
    Tuskegee University (United States)
    Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
    University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)

 Research and Educational Institutions

Bard Prison Initiative (United States)
Black Mountains College (United Kingdom)
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (United States)
Chatham House (United Kingdom)
Haitian Education and Leadership Program (Haiti)
Institute for New Economic Thinking (United States and United Kingdom)
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Austria)
Parami Institute (Myanmar)
Picker Center for Executive Education, Columbia University (United States)
Princeton Global History Lab (United States)
Rift Valley Institute (Kenya)
The Talloires Network of Engaged Universities (United States)
University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center (United States)
University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute (United States)
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I grew up just across the Hudson River in Westchester County and never heard of this school. It sounds like a attendance provides a great foundation for a career as a Communist, Antifa or BLM member or as a leader in the left wing effort to eliminate democracy in America.