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It cites work by 19th century professor Louis Agassiz, who pushed discredited theories on"race science" and eugenics. Another scholar led a"physical education" program that collected students' physical measurements to support research advancing eugenic theories. The 130-page report included a series of recommendations that Bacow endorsed. The $100 million will be used to carry out the work, with some funding to be made available now and more to be held in an endowment. The university itself has an endowment of more than $50 billion, the largest in the nation.
More broadly, it urges Harvard to fight racial inequality by expanding education options for descendants of enslaved people, especially in the South and the Caribbean. It calls on the university to work closely with historically Black colleges across the country, with new funding to bring students and scholars to Harvard for up to a year at a time.
Georgetown University in 2019 promised to raise $400,000 a year for the descendants of enslaved people sold by the school. The Princeton Theological Seminary created a $27.6 million reparative endowment. The University of Virginia established scholarships for the descendants of enslaved people.
It’s 2022, no one alive today was there. They would more good using that money to lower the price of attending that trash school.
Better uses for that kind of money. People cannot be held accountable nor take the credit for anything their ancestors did. It's like saying execute that person there because his 5th great grandfather killed someone back in the 1700's. Stupid. You can't rewrite or erase history.
Do people realize that back then slavery was accepted as normal. I don’t condone it and it’s totally immoral but that was hundreds of years ago.
That could be spent on dealing with world hunger 😉
250 years ago!!!! Stop pandering!!!!!!