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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

47 points · 48 comments · Guyadou

  1. wrs · · focus · HN ↗
    I’m a CMU SCS alum (actually I predate SCS being a full school). Please, someone make me feel better about this. They’re renaming the school after this person.
    1. method_capital · · focus · HN ↗
      Sure. It's $3B for your school. Who gives a shit what names the buildings have on them. I'll never understand you whiners.

      $2B for new Miami campus (could have been in NYC, but well ...) $1B - split w $500M for CS Dept - for Pittsburg campus

      "CMU Miami will invert the traditional higher education model by organizing learning and inquiry around societal challenges rather than academic majors. It will be entirely designed and built — from first blueprints to final beam — to drive revolutionary breakthroughs that address society’s defining challenges."

      1. duped · · focus · HN ↗
        $3 billion dollars from a weirdo that fled to Florida because he was too cheap to pay his taxes, establishing a school to train more weirdos like him, a thousand miles from the actual school and presumably with different curricula/professors/degrees sounds like he's just buying CMU's name for legitimacy on his experimental anti-education project.
        1. hyperlinerapp · · focus · HN ↗
          It would be dumb not to flee socialists hell holes.

          Wouldn’t you leave?

          FYI the federal government literally has a website for you to send it gift money. I suspect you hadn’t sent any.

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