Ivy League Schools Did Not Disclose $246 MILLION in Taxpayer Funding

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These vicious centers of leftist indoctrination don’t deserve a penny of taxpayer funding. This corrupt under-the-table money flow must be stopped. Universities and colleges should receive no funding and no support from parents unless and until they start allowing for conservative points of view to be aired and discussed without intimidation or violence.

“Report: Ivy League Schools Did Not Disclose $246 Million in Taxpayer Funding, Violating Law,” by Elizabeth Harrington, Washington Free Beacon, April 25, 2017:

An analysis of over $200 million in research projects conducted by Ivy League institutions found that none disclosed how they spent taxpayer dollars, in violation of federal law.

Senators are now asking the Government Accountability Office to investigate how many federally funded projects are not standing the scrutiny of how taxpayer dollars are spent.

The report conducted by White Coat Waste Project, a bipartisan organization seeking an end to taxpayer-funded animal experiments, and co-authored by Restore Accountability, identified 100 National Institutes of Health studies that did not disclose funding in press releases. The nondisclosure violates the Stevens Amendment, a three decades-old transparency rule.

White Coat Waste found “widespread transparency failures by Ivy League universities receiving more than $2 billion annually from the National Institutes of Health,” according to the report.

“This report demonstrates that 100 percent of these universities’ 2016 press releases detailing NIH-funded animal experiments—representing nearly a quarter-billion dollars in taxpayer funds—violated federal law requiring disclosure of government funding details,” the group said.

Aside from Ivy League schools, the report also includes projects that violated the disclosure law from Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R., Ariz.) 2017 Wastebook.

Examples include a $230,000 project conducted by New York University and the University of Rochester that studied whether “monkeys prefer photographs of other monkeys’ rear-ends on red or blue backgrounds.”

A $3.4 million Northwestern University project dubbed “Hamster Cage Matches” that studied the aggression levels in hamster fights also did not disclose how it spent the taxpayer funding.

One hundred additional studies conducted by Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, U. Penn, Princeton, and Yale were publicized in press releases by the schools, but did not disclose how the funding, totaling $246 million, was spent.

“If our nation’s eight most prominent educational institutions are systematically violating funding disclosure law, the problem likely extends to the thousands of other entities receiving the balance of the NIH’s $32 billion annual research budget, and grantees of other agencies covered by the Stevens Amendment,” the report said.

The Stevens Amendment, passed in 1989, requires grant recipients to disclose the amount of federal funds received, what percentage of the total costs was spent, and what will be spent by nongovernment sources in any press release or document that mentions the project.

A letter sent by Republican senators Flake, Ron Johnson (Wisc.), John McCain (Ariz.), and James Lankford (Okla.) to the Government Accountability Office Tuesday asked for an investigation into violations of the Stevens Amendment.

“We are writing to request that the Government Accountability Office conduct a review of federal spending to ensure transparency and accountability,” the senators said….

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JacksonPearson

6 years ago

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Dave from San Antonio

6 years ago

Reply to  JacksonPearson

But…it’s the liberal way…of doing things. Take from those who work…and give to those too lazy to work. They buy a lot of votes that way.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Reply to  Dave from San Antonio

That is why only taxpayers would be allowed to vote.

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RealEngineer2

6 years ago

As an NYU alumni, all I can say is I’m glad I graduated (undergrad) over 20 years ago, before the “looney tunes” set in. Back then, I could honestly say their science curriculum was very competitive, in many ways arguably among the best in the world. Now, like its IVY cousins, hardly anything more than a diploma mill for quota recruitments and reprobates with $20 million dollar trust funds.

At least (I believe) they still “grade on the curve”, unlike “ultra competitive” Harvard, where “8 out of 10 students graduate with honors and half receive A’s”, as “Evaluation systems have students grade professors, thereby providing an incentive for teachers to go easy on their future evaluators.” (USA Today 2/7/2002). Not bad,
a “genius” who becomes a “genius” by declaring themselves a “genius”.

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6 years ago

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

What will it take to get taxpayers to demand more accountability and responsibility in spending taxpayer funds? Perhaps another rely good tax increase is requires to get their attention?

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Ed Heavner

6 years ago

For Liberals laws and rules are for everyone else. Instead of Hillary and four more years of Liberalism out of control we now have eight years of Liberalism starting to come to light to all the little cock roach’s hiding in all the little dark forgotten corners of America.

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Dave from San Antonio

6 years ago

The gov’t. needs to take all federal funding and tax payer dollars away from these schools for about 20 years…period. It figures…all these schools are liberal oriented. Every person who was involved in any way or had knowledge of what was going on needs to be prosecuted and sent to prison…not the liberal “play-pens”, but a real prison.
A thorough audit of all their finance records is in order, too. When liberals “take” what they want…they do it with no thought about who is actually footing the bill.

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Speak the Truth

6 years ago

Reply to  Dave from San Antonio

Pamela is correct in stating taxpayer funds need to be ended. Since these universities are hopelessly biased, they have morphed into under-the-radar communist political organizations and indoctrination centers.

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Drew the Infidel

6 years ago

These leftist liberal universities regularly take taxpayer money and throw it up in the air and run out from under it while the IRS is weaponized against conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status? BTW, can you imagine a more beautiful sight than former IRS commish Lois Lerner in an orange inmate’s jump suit? Her prosecution is still a possibility.

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NickandLynds

6 years ago

The Ivy League is a name for a group of schools who were the original members of the oldest collegiate football league in the country; those schools are Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Princeton and Brown. Neither NYU nor the University of Rochester are members of the Ivy League. While the key point of this story– the failure of certain institutions to disclose taxpayer funding– may be true, the poor fact checking diminishes its credibility.

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Merchantseamen

6 years ago

They talk about “Big Business” and how it is the bane of society with their profit motive and such. How about Big University that has no over site what so ever. They continue to gouge the people with their 10 and 20% tuition increases per year. the 27th edition of text books that the “professors” foster on the students. and the millions or should I say billions of dollars in slush funds squirreled away. University of Virginia got caught with some 2 billions and never really explained it away. They said “to help hold tuition costs down” but they went up some 6% last year but the illegals get to go for free. WTF?? They all need to be investigated and broken. Traditions or not.

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