College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink

[redstatebluegirl]

1. A lot of these alumni are from a time when Blacks and Women "knew their place".

Racism, especially in southern schools is part of what is driving this. I don't know what happened after the fraternity at Oklahoma was closed due to awful racist songs being taught to pledges,but I imagine some of the older alums pulled support.

Many of these donors are from a time when only rich white men went to college. Women stayed home and made dinner and there were few if any Black and Hispanic students on campus. They liked it that way, it was familiar.

Donations were down during the 60's when protest were plentiful against Vietnam and white supremacy.

Hopefully it will come back, because the state and federal funding is drying up at an alarming rate. If not we will be back to only rich white guys going to college, but that is familiar.