Evangelical Liberty University received half a billion
dollars in federal aid money

One conservative college got more government cash than NPR
last year

BY ALEX PAREENE

Liberty University, the evangelical private Christian
school founded by dead apartheid-supporting bigot Jerry
Falwell, received $445 million in federal financial aid
last year. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, by the
way, received $420 million from the federal government.

That massive sum was thanks to the growth of Liberty's
online program, which enrolled 52,000 students last year.
The school is the No. 1 recipient of Pell grant money in
the state of Virginia. While it may seem like the federal
government is basically subsidizing this formerly
financially challenged ultra-conservative religious
private school, LU's executive director of financial aid
sees it differently:

For Ritz — a financial aid veteran who got his start at a
small Bible college — Liberty’s use of federal financial
aid does not run counter to the university’s conservative
values. Liberty does not receive the federal money
directly, Ritz said, but through students, who use it to
pay for tuition, room and board and other expenses.

“These funds are authorized by Congress and Congress is
elected by voters. . . I’ve always been in the position
where I believe I’m a steward of those federal funds. I’m
a steward of tax-payer money.”

And I'm sure ACORN, Planned Parenthood and NPR feel the
same way.

Liberty University -- where the biology department teaches
Young Earth Creationism -- is, astoundingly, an accredited
school of higher learning.

go to
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/05
liberty_university_federal_money

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