Wealthy donor cut off his cash over 'rise in campus wokery'

A university’s largest donor has cut off his cash to instead fund the fight for free speech on campus.

Durham’s former record-setting benefactor Mark Hillery, 57, will not donate to any university again until ‘they get their free speech house properly in order’.

The retired hedge fund manager donated more than £7 million to his alma mater, Collingwood College, between 2015 and 2021.

But this year, instead of funnelling his cash to the university, he gifted £400,000 to the Free Speech Union.

He told The Daily Telegraph: ‘It’s both depressing and deeply ironic that someone who was a long-time significant supporter of higher education now feels compelled to redirect his financial efforts to protecting free speech within it.

‘In the real world, such actions would surely send some alarm bells ringing and prompt some hard-headed, honest questions. But in higher academia, the message currently appears either lost or deemed irrelevant to the cause.’

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/wealthy-donor-cut-off-his-cash-over-rise-in-campus-wokery/ar-AA15KjhV

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