Hamilton College Alumni for Governance Reform

Note to Hamilton's trustees. Is Hamilton College next? From National Review.

"In a latest development FIRE's Adam Kissel writes an open letter to the UD [University of Delaware]faculty:

the 2008-2009 Residence Life Program Plan ... is unworthy of the University of Delaware for its unrelenting inculcation of a highly specific political agenda ... this kind of “education” has no place in a residential program ...
I am not an academic outsider ... I would be ashamed if faculty members would give up their educational prerogatives to the unrefined intellectual forays of residential staff who have nothing like the education and teaching abilities of the regular faculty."

Account of Gerrit Smith conference suggests that AHI has risen phoenix-like out of the ashes of AHC. Still, parable is a sad chapter in the history of Hamilton College.

Interesting conversation recently with one of the founders of the AHI. He cannot identify one conservative speaker that was brought to the Hamilton College campus this year. I would encourage alums to ask administrators to explain why as they meet with alums on tour.

Is Hamilton College welcoming to conservative students? I welcome input on this point from Hamilton student bloggers.

sue the college.

Googled my way to this website after reading Professor Paquette's parable in New Criterion. I agree with Johnson. Sue Hamilton College, although one wonders whether even a lawsuit would clean up that mess.

By the way, AHI has a real nice website. I recommend it.

The AHI does have a cool web site. Check out the links on the AHI site - under Higher Learning.

Hamilton is on its own for any fix but don't look for anything but more diversity-mania from this administration...next stop no - required curriculum but mandatory diversity stuff. It's an empty bucket.

The AHI should be forward looking.

How does one get hold of Paquette to congratulate him. I went to Hamilton College's website, and its if he doesn't exist. No picture, no email, not much of anything.

One would think the College would be advertising such an eloquent writer and scholar.

Sorry to go off track here, but as I think this is a great forum for asking questions about Hamilton and its leadership, I will.

Does anyone have any information regarding the performance of Hamilton's endowment funds? Is there any sort of annual report provided? As I understand it, the fund is pretty heavily exposed to hedge funds, private equity, and the like. To put it mildly, there have been some problems in these investment vehicles over the past year, and I am curious as to Hamilton's exposure, if any, to "blow-ups" in its endowment investments.

It seems to me that, as Hamilton is anything but shy in asking us for money, it should be equally open in providing reasonably detailed reporting of the investment performance in its endowment funds. Maybe the information is out there, and someone can point me in the right direction to find it. If so, thanks.

Oh, and fantastic article by Paquette in the New Criterion. Should be required reading for anyone with an interest in Hamilton College.

Goethe knows nothing, a foolish Teuton.

As far as the college is concerned Paquette is cursed as the One of Which No Man Can Speak and cast into barren the Land of No Raises.

No photos are possible, of course, as One of Which No Man Can Speak does not cast a shadow, nor email, as electons avoid him. Bad voodoo. Avert your eyes. Gather your children!

sgb -

They'll tell you when its appropriate to do so, ok?

In the meantime you can look to Davidson College as a model of financial disclosure in the educational sector.

http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x3850.xml

Wow--Davidson even gives you directions to the investment office, with parking suggestions!

What other class of charitable organization makes it so difficult to learn how the donors' money is put to work?