Indoctrination or Education? The Universities Funded by the Gates Foundation

Tracing the big money fueling the Left's conquest of our children in academia.

Just since the start of 2025, the woke, globalist, anti-freedom Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a stunning 59 separate grants to 44 universities globally. Evil billionaires have bought our Ivy League institutions and are propagandizing the next generation.

Over the last year-and-a-half, the ideological corruption and radical Marxist brainwashing at our once-revered universities became inescapable as students and professors stormed buildings, assaulted other students, destroyed property, and screamed their enthusiasm for genocidal Islamic jihad against Jews. 

Whether we look at gender ideology, Islamophilia, anti-Semitism, radical feminism, race-baiting, CRT, DEI, or any other branch of leftist propaganda, we find it entrenched in our educational institutions. Even as teachers and administrators lower standards, inflate grades, dumb down curricula, phase out Western classics and objective science, fixate on race over merit, and cease teaching useful skills, they are filling our youth's heads with dangerous lies. 

Bill Gates, who said he wants to drastically lower global population, was tied to a forced sterilization scandal, and is enamored of Communist China’s tyrannical regime, is absolutely part of that problem.

Take Harvard University, which received three different grants this year totaling over $1.3 million. Harvard, of course, has been making international headlines with its refusal to crackdown on violent pro-jihadi, anti-Semitic rioting and rhetoric on its campus, demanding that the Trump administration continue to provide billions of our taxpayer dollars to them while unequivocally refusing to meet Trump's terms. 

As of May 12, Harvard was once again refusing to end the rash of neo-Nazi, violent Jew-hatred on its campus, despite warnings of legal action from the Trump administration and frozen funds. Harvard's "first black president," Claudine Gay, had to resign in disgrace not only over her mishandling of pro-jihadi protests, but also over her personal plagiarism scandal. 

Of course, Harvard is radical on many levels. Harvard Children's Hospital was exposed in 2022 for asserting that kids know they're transgender "from the womb." Harvard also integrated the myth of "climate change" into its medical school curriculum. Harvard is currently offering courses in "Queer Ethnography," "Gender and Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture," and "The Health Effects of Climate Change." 

Tuition and fees to attend Harvard are at least $86,000 annually. What a horrific waste of money.

Perhaps the worst university in terms of dangerously violent pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish sentiment, though, is Columbia University, recipient of over $425,000 from the Gates Foundation this year alone. Mohsen Mahdawi, a Gazan student at Columbia, was recently arrested for endorsing Hamas's Oct. 7 atrocities; unfortunately, he has since been released. Back in January, masked pro-Hamas protestors burst into an Israeli history class with flyers bearing slogans like "Crush Zionism" (above a picture of a boot breaking a Star of David) and "Burn Zionism to the Ground," complete with a picture of what appeared to be a keffiyeh-clad jihadi amid rubble holding a burning Israeli flag. 

Just this month, a rowdy mob of anti-Israel protestors stormed Columbia's Butler Library and forced students studying for finals to leave. At least 80 of the protestors were arrested. Back in 2023, when the Oct. 7 atrocities had just occurred, Columbia student groups were agitating for the reinstatement of students suspended for threatening Jews, and the groups also signed onto a manifesto empathizing with Hamas and falsely accusing Israel of apartheid while simultaneously supporting ideologies to which Islamic Hamas applies the death penalty, supporting "transnational feminism, anticapitalism, and decolonization," and bashing "anti-Blackness, queerphobia." 

Courses offered this spring at Columbia include "Topics in the Black Experience: Introduction to Black Geographies" and "Advanced Breakthrough in Abolition Through Transformative Learning Exchange." 

Tuition and fees for undergrad at Columbia are at least $93,000.

Cornell University has received $450,000 from the Gates Foundation so far this year. The university faced backlash for inviting a musician, Kehlani, to perform at a featured concert who called to "dismantle Israel" and "f--- Zionism," while promoting the "intifada" or genocidal war against Israel. After some initial resistance, Cornell finally canceled Kehlani. Cornell now offers courses on "Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and Debates" and "The Sexual Politics of Religion," and promotes "The 2030 Project," part of the globalist dystopian project that World Economic Forum described as creating a world where you and I "own nothing" and "have no privacy." 

Cornell undergrads must pay at least $96,000 for the privilege of being indoctrinated.

University of Pennsylvania, recipient of $100,000 from the Gates Foundation, was at the center of the Joe Biden classified documents scandal, after it was revealed that the Chinese Communist Party gave tens of millions of dollars to UPenn's Biden Center, where Old Joe illicitly and illegally stashed classified documents. In 2024, police cleared out the radical pro-Hamas encampment, arresting dozens. 

UPenn currently offers "Introduction to Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory," "Sociology of Sex: Comparative Approaches," and "Queer Science" courses. Undergrad tuition and fees for the upcoming year are at least $71,000.

The examples are endless, but you understand the vital point—the Gates Foundation is funding the destruction of American higher education. No right-minded parent should spend vast amounts of money to send his child to any of these universities. Our future depends on avoiding Bill Gates' indoctrination centers.

(READ MORE: Top Ranked Wisconsin School Shut Down Because Too Many White Students Were Enrolled)

See full list below:

The universities and connected institutions listed as receiving grants from the Gates Foundation as of May 12, 2025 are University of Washington Foundation thrice ($2.4m, $10m, $3.1m), Northwestern University ($72,497), Pan-Atlantic University Foundation ($176,512), Harvard University thrice ($564,064, $500,000, and $299,801), Duke University ($344,128), Columbia University ($425,489), Simon Fraser University (750,375), University of Pennsylvania ($100,000), Cornell University ($450,000), Washington University twice ($1.258m and $1.495m), University of Nairobi ($900,000), Johns Hopkins University twice ($12m and $368,180), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University twice ($10,000 and $1.2m), University of Manchester ($252,820), Stanford University ($200,000), University of Birmingham ($3.1m), University of Virginia ($650,000), Emory University thrice ($2.75m, $1.69m and $458,717), Aga Khan University thrice ($1.86m, $100,040 and $215,058), University of California Berkeley ($1.46m), University of British Columbia ($1.32m), University of California San Francisco ($726,000), The George Washington University twice ($78,905 and $700,000), Carnegie Mellon University twice ($420,456 and $1.489m), University of California Santa Barbara ($250,000), University of Cape Town ($156,813), The University of Western Australia ($498,631), University of Otago ($149,545), Purdue University ($1.69m), University of York ($262,779), University of Minnesota ($3.4m), University of Denver ($200,00), University of Global Health Equity ($472,230), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($532,935), Deakin University ($25,000), National University of Singapore $18,321), University of Maryland Baltimore ($1.848m), Oregon Health & Science University ($966,600), Oregon State University ($657,108), University of Oxford twice ($198,260 and $48,000), Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health ($1.999m), The University of Texas at El Paso ($10,000), University of Geneva ($4.099m), University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation ($200,000), and University of California Santa Cruz ($39,637).

Catherine Salgado is a contributor for PJ Media. She also writes for Media Research Center, the Prickly Pear, and her Substack Pro Deo et Libertate on a variety of political, historical, and cultural topics. She received the Andrew Breitbart MVP award for August 2021 from the Rogue Review for her journalism.

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