Universities have unchecked power in how they spend their funding that seems to be growing each year through larger endowments, receiving large sums of federal funding and increasing tuition for students. This is especially true for America’s top-ranked universities that continue to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and allow antisemitism to run amuck.
The Trump administration and Congress must work together to rein in this unlimited power that universities have usurped. For starters, endowments can be taxed to a greater extent to ensure universities pay their fair share.
Universities that hold some of the largest endowments include Harvard at $52 billion, Yale at $41 billion, Princeton at $34 billion and Columbia at $15 billion. Each of these universities has wasted funding in creating DEI offices with each office having its own staff. Columbia created its DEI office as late as last year.
Despite claiming to…
