Philanthropist Halts Higher Ed Donations

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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INTERVIEW | Tom Lewis is among America’s most generous philanthropists. Over more than 20 years, his T.W. Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like The Heritage Foundation. But he’s now taking a different approach with colleges and universities after a controversy at Arizona State University. Lewis pulled his funding following the school’s mishandling of an event with Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager in February. The Arizona State event was hosted by the university’s T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development. It sparked outrage from professors and accusations of censorship from the center’s former executive director. Lewis spoke to The Daily Signal about his decision to pull the funding and the state of higher education in America. Listen to the full interview on "The Daily Signal Podcast" or read a lightly edited version at DailySignal.com. RELATED: Tom Lewis on Finding Success and Happiness in Life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	37 out of 47 faculty at Barrett find a really nasty letter of condemnation for the event
0:07.8	but they were calling Prager and Kirk Praveers of hate and homophodes and things like that.
0:14.5	And so he just got ugly.
0:22.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, July 28th.
0:25.2	I'm Rob Blueey.
0:26.7	And those were the words of Tom Lewis, one of our country's most generous philanthropists.
0:31.6	Over more than 20 years, his TW Lewis Foundation has funded causes helping children and families,
0:37.0	educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations like the Heritage Foundation.
0:42.2	But last month, Lewis made news for another reason.
0:45.2	It was a donation that he terminated with Arizona State University.
0:49.4	You see, Lewis pulled his funding following the school's mishandling of an event with
0:53.2	Charlie Kirk and Dennis Prager in February.
0:56.2	The Arizona State event was hosted by the university's TW Lewis Center for Personal Development.
1:01.8	And it sparked an outrage from professors and accusations of censorship from the center's
1:06.4	former executive director.
1:08.5	Lewis spoke to the Daily Signal about his decision to pull the funding and the state of
1:12.4	higher education in America today.
1:15.0	Before we get to my interview with Tom Lewis, let me tell you about another Heritage Foundation
1:18.9	podcast.
1:19.9	How do we take back America?
1:21.7	It starts with ideas, ideas we take on offense to reclaim our country.
1:26.8	That's why I can't recommend the Kevin Roberts Show, highly enough.
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