Major Cornell donor yanks funding over DEI, demands President Pollack resign

One of Cornell University’s largest donors has declared he will no longer donate money to his alma mater while its embrace of diversity, equity and inclusion continues in a memo that also called on the Board of Trustees to force President Martha Pollack to resign.

Jon Lindseth, a former Cornell trustee who has been a major benefactor to the Ivy League institution for several decades, penned a letter Tuesday that calls on current trustees to consider his concerns at an emergency meeting this Saturday.

The letter denounces how DEI ideology has been embedded into the institution, which he argues has created a “toxic academic environment” and damaged its excellence. He calls DEI a corruption and accuses Pollack of not only allowing it but encouraging it and helping it flourish.