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    "parsed_content": "The Epstein FilesLatest ReleaseConspiracy Theories FlourishFiles Include VideosLawmakers Question BondiPowerful Men in FilesReferences to TrumpAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTEpstein\u2019s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-RaisingProfessors and presidents are often eager to raise outside cash. Some are now facing blowback after connecting with Jeffrey Epstein.Listen to this article \u00b7 8:50 min Learn moreShare full articleOhio State University said in 2020 that it would donate the full value of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s contributions to an initiative to fight human trafficking.Credit...Aaron M. Sprecher\/Getty ImagesBy Alan BlinderAlan Blinder, who covers higher education, welcomes tips at nytimes.com\/tips.Feb. 16, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ETTheir buildings can be architectural wonders. The discoveries made in their laboratories can be spellbinding and lifesaving.But America\u2019s colleges and universities are chronically searching for money, a reality that brought academic leaders and researchers into both Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s orbit and his inbox. The schools had the prestige to lend him legitimacy. Mr. Epstein had the money to bankroll projects.It worked well for some, until it didn\u2019t.Mr. Epstein, who in 2019 died by suicide in the jail where he was being held on sex trafficking charges, gave money, or simply dangled the prospect of it, before people on a range of campuses, including Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Bard College and Columbia.Some schools have spent years trying to distance themselves from Mr. Epstein, donating his contributions and condemning his crimes. But recent document releases from the Justice Department have prompted new recriminations and regrets.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMany academics whose names appear within the Epstein files say they turned to him only because of his money and the possibility that it could underwrite college budgets and research efforts \u2014 even if their exchanges came after Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor.\u201cAs I have said for years, engaging with Jeffrey Epstein was in service of one agenda, which was fund-raising for Bard,\u201d the college\u2019s president, Leon Botstein, said in a statement.Nicholas Christakis, a professor at Yale, wrote in an email that he had only met Mr. Epstein once, \u201cin the context of fund-raising for my lab.\u201d\u201cWe never got any funding from him,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cLike other academic scientists, I am responsible for the financial support of my lab.\u201dAntonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, said in an email that colleagues had told him about Mr. Epstein, saying that he was interested in science.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWhen Epstein invited myself and my wife (who is also a well-known scientist) to have dinner at his New York home with other colleagues, we accepted and we both attended,\u201d said Dr. Damasio, who said he had never received any money from Mr. Epstein.Image\u201cAs I have said for years, engaging with Jeffrey Epstein was in service of one agenda, which was fund-raising for Bard,\u201d the college\u2019s president, Leon Botstein, said in a statement.Credit...Richard Beaven for The New York TimesMr. Epstein\u2019s motives for connecting with college professors and presidents were not always clear. He gathered celebrities and power brokers into his network; a Harvard professor who benefited from the Epstein largess once noted that the financier also collected scientists.Mr. Epstein rarely followed through with the multimillion-dollar contributions he suggested were on offer, but he drew people in and appeared attentive to academia\u2019s unending quest to pay its bills. Private philanthropy has long been an essential part of higher education\u2019s business model, and some college presidents say they spend at least a quarter of their time fund-raising.Much of the money that is collected goes toward endowments. Although the most recent federal data shows American colleges and universities collectively have more than $927 billion across their endowments, many of those funds have severe restrictions, limiting how they may be used and leaving academia more financially squeezed than the headline figure suggests. That is one reason researchers jockey ferociously for grant money and other gifts.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBut reliance on private money, industry officials say, leaves schools vulnerable to soliciting or accepting contributions from sources that might be unsavory.Rarely do the overtures blow up as spectacularly as the ones involving Mr. Epstein have. (The authorities have not accused any of the academics whose names have surfaced in the files of wrongdoing related to Mr. Epstein.)Academia has been awash in speculation over Mr. Epstein\u2019s motives for floating possible donations.Mr. Botstein said in 2023 that Mr. Epstein \u201cenjoyed humiliating and dangling prospects\u201d and had \u201cabsolutely strung me along.\u201d Others have wondered whether he luxuriated in conversations with some of the world\u2019s brightest minds. Many also believe that Mr. Epstein sought to leverage academia\u2019s reputation to clean up his own.ImageThe Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.Credit...Sophie Park for The New York TimesFor example, a Harvard professor, whose program received millions from Mr. Epstein, greenlit proposals made by the financier\u2019s publicist to feature Mr. Epstein on a university website. In a report Harvard issued in 2020, the university said the requests \u201cappeared to be part of a larger effort to rehabilitate\u201d Mr. Epstein\u2019s image. (The university also noted that Mr. Epstein\u2019s foundation\u2019s website overstated its gifts to Harvard by tens of millions of dollars.)AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cHaving one of these universities as part of your philanthropic portfolio adds a tremendous amount of credibility, and I think that\u2019s what a university should be worried about: Is an unsavory character using me to whitewash a lifestyle?\" said Nicholas S. Zeppos, a former Vanderbilt University chancellor.Universities have long debated approaches to so-called tainted money. Some academic leaders have argued that it is better for the money to be spent by universities, where the public good can be advanced, than for it to remain with nefarious sources.\u201cIt\u2019s a tough area for institutions,\u201d said Gene Tempel, the founding dean emeritus of Indiana University\u2019s School of Philanthropy and a former president of the university\u2019s foundation. \u201cThey are in search of money, and the old saw about tainted money is tain\u2019t enough of it.\u201dIt was not always clear how much administrators knew about Mr. Epstein\u2019s contacts with their schools. Most due diligence policies, industry officials said, are usually built around gift acceptance, not solicitation.And with some notable exceptions \u2014 particularly Dr. Botstein and Lawrence H. Summers, who led Harvard \u2014 Mr. Epstein\u2019s contacts with academia happened at the lower ranks of universities, in part because his potential gifts, while large, were not usually enough to merit the attention of campus leaders.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt the most elite universities, according to current and former industry officials, presidents rarely become substantively involved with wooing a prospective donor unless a contribution could amount to $10 million or more.In many cases, it appears that Mr. Epstein was engaging with individual professors, sometimes without the knowledge of university fund-raising executives who might have been more skeptical.\u201cEven a dollar from someone with that background is not acceptable,\u201d Mr. Zeppos said. \u201cBut to get presidential involvement requires a much higher threshold of potential gift activity.\u201dEven apart from Mr. Epstein\u2019s 2008 conviction, James M. Langley, the president of a philanthropy consultancy, said the donor\u2019s limited giving record should have raised alarms.\u201cOne does want to be alert to all possibilities,\u201d said Mr. Langley, who had held top posts at Georgia Tech, Georgetown and the University of California, San Diego. \u201cBut here\u2019s something you learn from fund-raising, and that is if it\u2019s too good to be true, it usually is.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Langley said he nevertheless understood why professors engaged with Mr. Epstein.\u201cAll of a sudden, this person of means is coming to you, so in some ways that may reinforce your view that the larger system doesn\u2019t appreciate you as well as it should,\u201d said Mr. Langley, who said Mr. Epstein\u2019s apparent interest may have been \u201cseductive\u201d to researchers.Dr. Damasio, the U.S.C. scientist, told a student publication there that he had been \u201clooking for a prestigious philanthropist, not a criminal.\u201dUniversities and professors are scrambling to manage the backlash from their associations with Mr. Epstein. The online presences and class schedules of some professors have vanished, and some schools, like Harvard, are exploring the ties of their major donors to Mr. Epstein.Haverford College has come under pressure to rename the Lutnick Library after the extent of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s ties to Mr. Epstein emerged. The college\u2019s president, Wendy Raymond, said in a community email that the school was \u201ccommitted to our core values and cognizant of broader ethical implications raised by these disclosures\u201d and that she and board members would \u201ccontinue to monitor the situation.\u201dSome industry officials expect the Epstein disclosures to usher in new protocols regarding potential donors, though there is debate about whether they would prove effective.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Zeppos, the former Vanderbilt chancellor, argued that the episode had exposed \u201ca vulnerability in the system.\u201d\u201cSometimes,\" he said, \u201cthese things are just like airline crash cases that could be prevented \u2014 a set of circumstances that should set off alerts to everybody, but the system just fails.\u201dAlan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education.See more on: Harvard University, Bard College, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence SummersShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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