Look at, this, this needs more research.
Endowment by student. [
en.wikipedia.org]
This list says Princeton is the highest, at 1.9 million per student.
Well, they missed Soka University, which appears to be about 2.6 million per student.
Of course, the numbers could be slightly different according to how its calculated, but the bottom line is that Soka University is obviously a mechanism that allows tax-free religious money from SGI-USA, to be transfered into Soka U, then invested in the markets and earn massive profits.
And also used to lobby politicians, and the rest of it.
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Soka University Under Fire [
www.culteducation.com]
Anne Houtman: (Assistant Dean and then Acting Dean of the Faculty)
... "I didn't know - they didn't tell me, and I didn't know at the time - that any of them were Soka Gakkai. I assumed they weren't, because they referred to the Soka Gakkai as sort of the parent organisation, and referred to it as this thing far away - it was giving us the funding, but we were the experts so we were going to design everything. It turns out later that they were all Soka Gakkai, and when I spoke to them about the endowment, besides having a half-billion dollar campus that was already paid for and in the process of being built, they also had a half- billion dollar endowment. "
...For the early faculty, there were kind of red flags right away, there were really deep concerns by some of the early faculty - all of whom have left now, either by being fired or by choosing to leave - they were really concerned about the relationship between the funding organisation, Soka Gakkai, and Soka University, and they felt that decision-making was happening in a very secretive and hierarchical way, and we weren't being told a lot of what was going on, the faculty."
Anne Houtman: I don't want to talk too much about it, because my lawyer said not to but there's real discrepancies in salary, and in hiring and firing decisions based on whether or not you were a member of the Soka Gakkai. And I saw those salary data as an Acting Dean of Faculty; it was very clear to me that there's a definite bonus attached to being a Soka Gakkai member."
"Now, the students are well over 90% Soka Gakkai themselves"
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2009 03:54AM by The Anticult.