The president of Harvard University has apologized for giving a speech in which he compared rich alumni donors to freed slaves.
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow was slammed as"tone-deaf" and"inappropriate" by some of those who heard him make the analogy that rich alumni should be free to spread their wealth around instead of always feeling bound to giving to schools at the Ivy League institution they have an affiliation with.
“I regret that these comments caused offense. That certainly was not my intent,” Bacow wrote in a message emailed on Saturday morning to the university’s alumni relations and development staff. Some schools, such as Harvard Business School, receive an abundance of donations from rich alumni who work on Wall Street or Silicon Valley, while other schools, such the Graduate School of Education, have alumni who go into teaching or work in the nonprofit sector and have less money to donate.
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