Covid-19 shot mandates for college students are absolutely insupportable by data. So why do more than 1000 colleges continue to mandate C-19 shot mandates for students? One piece of the puzzle is certainly government money, whether paid in a quid-pro-quo arrangement or an arrangement much more subtle and insidious.
Below is a step by step guide you can use to search for how much your college gets from our Federal Government.
While there is no real proof that there is a direct dollars-to-mandates relationship, by seeing how much money flows to colleges from the feds you can begin to see how “captured” the institutions may be by that federal money.
It’s hard to bite the hand that pays your light bills…
We’ll use Cornell University as an example.
Start here for an overview:
This site can be used to look at spending from different agencies as well. We won’t be concerned with that here, but it’s there for your use.
Use the “Profiles” drop-down menu to select “Recipients”. From there, you can search for your college. You will also see an option to search for Covid-19 Spending, so you can search specifically for that as well.
Here’s an example: You’ll see different designations for “parent”, “child” and “recipient”. The parent usually is the all-inclusive number for the institution - though not always if there is a medical school under separate categorization. When you click on one of the recipients, it will bring you to a page that summarizes the awards over time and by granting institution, shown next.
Make sure you select what time period you wish to see. It’s interesting to compare year-over-year data and to note how much the Dept. of Ed money may have increased during Covid-19 due to Higher Education Emergency Relief Funding (HEERF). More on that next.
If you are specifically interested in HEERF from the Department of Education, here is the website:
https://covid-relief-data.ed.gov/
Let’s search for how much Cornell got.
Another great resource for HEERF money is Randoland. I like how they list the college’s endowment alongside the funding.
Here’s how to dig deeper into NIH funding, which is interesting given that the NIH is a joint patent holder with Moderna for the C19 vaccine.
It is useful to search by ‘PI” or Principal Investigator to see how much funding an individual’s lab gets annually. For instance, at my own son’s college, the person in charge of the Scientific Advisory Covid-19 policy committee gets between $600K and $900K for his lab’s research annually. How likely is he to buck the NIH? Not likely.
Keep in mind that colleges also receive money from corporations (including Pharma, of course) and from foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. You can search for Gates Grants to colleges here.