Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel speaks at the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024.Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin called on his alma mater Harvard University on Saturday to embrace “western values,” saying that the turmoil across college campuses was the product of a “cultural revolution” in U.S. education.
“Harvard should put front and centre stands for meritocracy in America …,” Griffin said, adding that schools should “embrace Western values that have built one of the greatest nations in the world.” “What you’re seeing now is the end-product of this cultural revolution in American education playing out on American campuses, in particular, using the paradigm of the oppressor and the oppressed,” Griffin told the FT.Griffin’s remarks come amid arrests of dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at universities across America in the latest crackdowns on demonstrations roiling U.S. campuses.