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Oh Those California Kids

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From The College Fix via NRO’s The Corner:

The University of California Student Association board – which represents all 233,000 students enrolled in the UC system’s 10 campuses – approved a resolution on Sunday that calls on the system’s leaders to financially divest from the United States.

The measure cited alleged human rights violations by America such as drone strikes that have killed civilians, and claimed the country’s criminal justice system is racist, among other accusations.

The “Resolution Toward Socially Responsible Investment at the University of California” passed with an overwhelming majority vote of 11-1-3.

[my emphasis]

Here’s something you may not know. The amount of money awarded to universities for research and other projects by agencies of the federal government, e.g., National Institutes of Health (NIH), is public information. Here are the search results listing active NIH grants (2014-1015) for 25 universities in the University of California system. (You can search this data base yourselves.) Included are the $$ dollar $$ amounts of each grant. To be clear, the federal government does not produce a product. The money federal agencies pass out is money the federal government collects from citizens. Your tax dollars at work.

At these 25 universities there are 5974 search results– active grants. I downloaded and summed the amounts of the grants for the top 500 entries– a bit less than 10% of all results.

$908,386,947. Where I live that’s danged close to 1 Billion Dollars. And that’s less than 10% of active grants by one federal funding agency at 25 universities.

So you go, California Kids! You divest yourself from the United States and save us all some money!

2 Responses

  1. I graduated from the university of California. Davis, to be specific.

    I’m not so proud of that these days…although I can tell you I already knew that the Davis of today is very far away philosophically from the Davis I knew.

    Public university though it was, all exams were taken on the honor system in those days. As far as I ever knew, nobody ever cheated. Of course, in those days, it was an Ag college. Total enrollment – including partime students – was about 3000.

    We went back to visit once. The campus was _huge_ compared to the campus we had known (and this was “only” about 20 years after we had graduated, if that long) and the enrollment was also huge. It was no longer an ag school – it had become a center for medical doctors and lawyers. Very different place from the one we had known.

    1. John went to UCLA and then to UC Irvine. We go back from time to time. Things change! Funny you mentioning Ag schools. State is an Ag school and I think hasn’t changed nearly as much as more liberal arts schools. But it is Mississippi and change doesn’t happen all that fast!

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