{"id":1986561,"date":"2023-07-31T05:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him-biden-seeks-to-end-legacy-admissions-after-generations-of-his-own-family-benefited-from-it\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:14:10","slug":"pulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him-biden-seeks-to-end-legacy-admissions-after-generations-of-his-own-family-benefited-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him-biden-seeks-to-end-legacy-admissions-after-generations-of-his-own-family-benefited-from-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden aims to end legacy admissions, despite his family&#8217;s past benefits."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him-biden-seeks-to-end-legacy-admissions-after-generations-of-his-own-family-benefited-from-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Biden Administration Investigates Elite Universities for Preferential \u2064Treatment<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration is currently investigating whether \u200c<a title=\"Biden aims to end legacy admissions, despite his family's past benefits.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pulling-up-the-ladder-behind-him-biden-seeks-to-end-legacy-admissions-after-generations-of-his-own-family-benefited-from-it\/\">elite universities \u2064violate federal civil\u200c rights law<\/a> by giving \u2062preferential treatment\u2063 to the children of alumni and\u200c donors.<\/p>\n<p>This opposition to legacy\u200c admissions, however, may be an awkward \u2062policy position for President Joe \u2064Biden to embrace, considering that his own family has benefited from this practice. Five members of\u2063 the\u2063 Biden clan, including two of Biden&#8217;s\u2064 children\u200c and three of his grandchildren, have graduated \u2063from the \u2064University of Pennsylvania. In at least <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/joe-biden-wants-to-crack-down-on-privilege-in-education-he-called-upenns-president-to-get-his-granddaughter-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one instance<\/a>, Biden used\u2064 his influence to secure his \u200dgranddaughter&#8217;s admission by calling in a special favor with the university&#8217;s\u2064 president.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the \u200cpresident wants\u2062 to address\u200b this issue. The Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights recently \u2063informed Harvard University that it is under\u200c investigation for \u200cpotentially discriminating against <a title=\"D.C. Public Schools Use Black Lives Matter Curricula To Teach Black History Month\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-public-schools-use-black-lives-matter-curricula-to-teach-black-history-month\/\">minority students<\/a> by admitting allegedly underqualified white applicants from wealthy and connected families. This investigation follows a lawsuit filed by liberal groups,\u200c claiming that Harvard&#8217;s legacy admissions practices \u200bviolate\u2064 the Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=msbdHWHy5Q0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> that the president \u200cbelieves &#8220;legacy admissions hold back our ability to build \u200ddiverse student bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s\u200d Personal Connection to Legacy Admissions<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, \u200bjust five years ago, Biden \u200chimself hoped that\u200b legacy admissions \u2062would benefit his granddaughter, Maisy Biden.\u200b Despite lacking\u2062 the \u200ctypical 4.0-plus GPA required \u2062for a school with a 5.9 percent acceptance \u2063rate, \u200ccommunications from Hunter Biden&#8217;s\u200b laptop reveal that Biden frequently communicated with the University of Pennsylvania president, Amy Guttman, about Maisy&#8217;s application. Guttman even \u200cprovided updates on\u200b the <a title=\"Biden\u2019s Justice Department Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Yale\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-justice-department-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\">admissions process<\/a> and offered\u2062 tips to boost Maisy&#8217;s application. Biden \u200dwas so involved that he\u2063 expected to\u2062 hear about Maisy&#8217;s acceptance before she did.<\/p>\n<p>This special \u2062treatment stands in stark contrast to the typical college application\u200c process, which often leaves high \u200cschool students \u2064stressed and disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>These practices are\u200b also \u200bthe same ones that left-wing groups criticized\u200b in their\u200b lawsuit against Harvard. They argue that legacy and donor\u200d admissions are granted without considering the applicant&#8217;s\u200c credentials or merits, solely based on being born into a particular family.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2062University of \u2062Pennsylvania\u200c has not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Close Relationship with\u2063 the University of \u2063Pennsylvania<\/h3>\n<p>Few politicians in \u2064recent\u2063 history have had a closer relationship with a university\u2062 than Biden and the \u2063University of \u200cPennsylvania.\u2062 After leaving the\u200b White House in 2016, the \u200cuniversity became his de-facto base camp, housing a lavish office that contained <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-think-tank-that-housed-classified-docs-also-hosted-event-that-pushed-greater-engagement-with-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">classified documents<\/a>. Biden often refers to himself as a\u2063 former &#8220;professor&#8221; at the university, despite never teaching\u2064 a class. He was\u2062 paid nearly\u200b $1 \u200dmillion\u2064 for a series of lectures and events.<\/p>\n<p>In \u20622018, the\u200c Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and \u200dGlobal Engagement \u200dwas\u2063 established, aiming to strengthen American global leadership \u2064and\u200d engage a new generation. However, this think tank&#8217;s inauguration led\u200b to an <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/upenn-raked-in-over-1-billion-in-foreign-funding-since-opening-biden-think-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influx of donations<\/a> from foreign nationals, including Chinese nationals linked to Hunter Biden&#8217;s <a title=\"Biden bows to China, shows weakness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-bows-to-china-shows-weakness\/\">past business dealings<\/a> and\u2062 the Chinese\u200b Communist Party, who \u2062have donated at least \u2064$105 million to the school from \u20642018\u2064 to mid-2022. Both \u200dthe White House and UPenn \u200bhave\u2064 refused \u2062to\u2064 disclose the Biden Center&#8217;s donors.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden&#8217;s election, he \u200bappointed\u2062 Amy Guttman as ambassador \u2062to Germany in 2022, further solidifying\u200d their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>In total, \u200dtwo of the president&#8217;s children, Ashley\u200b and the late Beau, attended the University of\u2064 Pennsylvania. \u2064Additionally, \u200ball three of Hunter&#8217;s children with his first wife, Kathleen Buhle, also \u2063attended the university.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden was so \u2063confident in his family&#8217;s connection to the university that he even\u200d planned to\u200c join the faculty\u200d himself. In a text \u2062message to his uncle Jim Biden,\u2063 he expressed his\u2063 desire to work as\u200d a \u200cprofessor at the University of Pennsylvania \u2062after overcoming\u2063 his addiction to \u200ccrack cocaine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is examining if prestigious universities breach civil rights law by favoring alumni and donor children. President Biden&#8217;s stance on legacy admissions may be challenging as his own family has gained advantages from this practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1986562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden aims to end legacy admissions, despite his family&#8217;s past benefits.","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden aims to end legacy admissions, despite his family&#8217;s past benefits.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}