Charlie Kirk Presses Cambridge Student on Harvard's Endowment
Showing 4 University Endowments videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
During a debate at Cambridge, Charlie Kirk argued that Harvard's roughly $50 billion endowment means the university does not need federal funding and could instead draw on its own resources, especially given what he called Harvard's violation of the Supreme Court's ruling against race-based college admissions. The Cambridge student countered that endowments are meant to be preserved in perpetuity for long-term research funding rather than spent down to replace federal grants. In a separate debate at Long Beach, Kirk made a similar argument against a Harvard defender, citing the school's endowment size as justification for cutting its federal funding over admissions practices. Other videos in this pool include Kirk's commentary on the student loan system's resemblance to the 2008 mortgage crisis.