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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 07/08/2025

If your endowment dollars are invested with university executives', politicians', donor-owned companies...that's parked, captive capital. Hands tied.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 05/08/2025

Corcoran co-founded two companies, sister legal and lobbying firms, months before he started at New College. The companies share executive partners. Corcoran's wife works for them. Through two quarters in 2025, Corcoran's New College has paid them $55,000.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 24/07/2025

Where have I seen this before??

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 21/07/2025

Joe Gruters, Sydney Gruters's husband, was investigated by his own party when $80,000 went missing from Florida Republican Party coffers while he was party chair. Gruters is an accountant by trade. Makes me awful nervous these two are so close to that $55 million endowment.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 16/07/2025

As a Jewish student who currently attends two different CUNY schools, this is nonsense. They're really aiming at something else here than the target they're naming, and it's not benevolent.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 12/07/2025

I wonder why they would want to limit outside oversight, as schools with civic centers such as theirs are set to receive preferential treatment in federal funding.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 12/07/2025

Now we can wash federal dollars through these civic colleges!

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 09/07/2025

I mean...depending on where that money's invested, they're still not gonna pay taxes on most of it.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 09/07/2025

These civic centers have their finances locked up pretty tight. Voucher programs, too. Seems they're all buddies. Maybe all this DEI, this ideological warfare, assault on colleges...is just about...moving money though through channels with certain shields and tax protections??

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 08/07/2025

Then they don't have to file 990s, or show what they're doing with they're money, right? No taxes as religious institutions? $270 million endowment, or $1.1 million per student...that's a biggggg number. No accreditation? Hmm...that's a neat, dark pool of money.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 27/06/2025

Diagnosing a problem ≠ having the capacity to solve the problem.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 20/06/2025

Look at J.D. Vance showing up at a party he wasn't invited to and is not wanted at, trying to assert himself. Must remind him of high school, or every day of his life.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 05/06/2025

[…] was the first university the [….] tackled... www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 05/06/2025

For his first half year as "incoming"/acting president of Midland University, Sasse was paid through an offshore shell company belonging solely to him, rather than as an employee, ostensibly a tax dodge, at a rate 250% of his eventual starting salary. He listed the shell company on his UF résumé.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 05/06/2025

Reading can be challenging for some.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 04/06/2025

Very sobering. Some prefer the breed, regardless of taste.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 04/06/2025

In 2019, Ron DeSantis was $263,000 in debt to J.G. Wentworth—the 877-CASH-NOW folks...reclaiming a lump sum payment for an annuity that disappeared or never materialized? DeSantis ran for governor to get at that mansion, he was struggling to afford his home.

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Higher Ed Heist @higheredheist.com · 04/06/2025

UF Board of Trustees made the pick. Florida System Board of Governors, 14 of 17 members picked by the governor, gave the thumbs down.

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