Universities hand out money collected through student fees to support various groups on campus. When they do so, they’re supposed to be viewpoint-neutral, not favoring groups with beliefs that officials like and disfavoring groups they dislike.
But things don’t usually turn out that way, as Harrington Shaw writes in today’s Martin Center article.
At the two main schools in the UNC system, the criteria for dispensing money include such politically slanted ideas as “diversity.” Leftist organizations pull in lots of money, naturally.
Shaw sees that there’s a solution: Tell student groups that they’re responsible for raising their own money in the future. He writes:
Students are well equipped to organize clubs, recruit students, plan and execute events, and manage club finances on their own. Accordingly, they need not rely on the distribution of revenues from mandatory fees to support their activities. Resourceful student-organization leaders are capable of conducting fundraising on and off campus and collecting dues from members to finance their operations. Enabling student governments to act as middlemen only redistributes students’ tuition dollars toward organizations that align with the university’s potentially viewpoint-discriminatory DEI, “representation,” and “sustainability” objectives.
The leftists will hate being told that they can’t use other people’s money to push their agenda.