Trump's war on education: gutting the US university system

[Winehole23]

the NIH grants were just the tip of the spear, direct censorship of curriculum and ideological purges of faculty and administration are coming

the right wing lost the culture war, so they're going to impose theirs by political force


I don’t know how these legal battles are going to play out, but if the cap on indirect costs is sustained, it will have profound effects on balance sheets. Columbia, for example, is expected (https://standcolumbia.org/2025/02/08/issue-028-federal-funding-cuts-shake-higher-education-and-could-cost-columbia-over-200-million/)to lose over 100 million dollars a year from this one change alone, and twice as much if other federal agencies follow suit. Stanford’s projected losses (https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/09/stanford-to-lose-160-million-in-nih-funding-change/) are in the same ball park. Other major research universities, including flagship state schools, all face roughly the same fate.

The last time there was a fiscal shock of comparable magnitude was during the pandemic, when Columbia faced (https://provost.columbia.edu/news/university-fiscal-update) about 300 million dollars in net losses over two years due to reduced occupancy in housing units, a precipitous drop in the number of international students, lower revenues from medical procedures, and new expenditures on testing, tracing, student evacuation, and upgraded classroom technologies. The university responded with employee furloughs, hiring and salary freezes, temporary reductions in retirement benefits, depletion of cash reserves, and new debt issuance.

The difference this time is that the fiscal shortfall is of indefinite duration, and cannot be addressed by temporary measures. Harvard’s president has argued (https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/indirect-costs-and-their-impact-on-our-research-mission/) that the proposed cap “would slash funding and cut research activity at Harvard and nearly every research university in our nation.” He predicts the following consequences:


The discovery of new treatments would slow, opportunities to train the next generation of scientific leaders would shrink, and our nation’s science and engineering prowess would be severely compromised. At a time of rapid strides in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, brain science, biological imaging, and regenerative biology, and when other nations are expanding their investment in science, America should not drop knowingly and willingly from her lead position on the endless frontier.


For reasons discussed below, such arguments are unlikely to sway those responsible for higher education policy in the current administration.
https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-golden-goose (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/the-golden-goose-the-consequences-of-trumps-war-on-american-universities.html)

[Winehole23]

JD Vance would purge US universities -- or wreck them entirely -- merely for not being politically aligned with him


It’s important to understand that the NIH announcement is just the opening salvo in an all-out assault (https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-storm-ahead) on universities that has yet to begin in earnest. Other initiatives currently being contemplated (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856114715694444856) include the leveraging of the accreditation process to force major changes to the curriculum, the filing of federal civil rights cases, and the taxation and partial confiscation of endowments. We may also see selective denials of visas for foreign students and the targeted freezing of federal grants and contracts.

The sitting Vice President has described (https://www.chronicle.com/article/j-d-vance-is-coming-for-higher-ed) American universities as the enemy. To get a clear sense of what he means by this, consider the following remarks made about an hour into a podcast episode (https://youtu.be/ohqaH3ABiHg?si=uSbQaeMnDbXUD12W&t=3637) recorded in 2021 (emphasis added):2 (https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-golden-goose?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=225020&post_id=156744394&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=bzs8&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email#footnote-2-156744394)


Universities I really believe are the gatekeepers. Everything runs through the universities… Everything that is broken about our society—from Fauci’s authority to the things that our kids are being taught in the sixth grade—runs through the university system. There is no way for a conservative to accomplish our vision of society unless we’re willing to strike at the heart of the beast. That’s the universities.

So the idea that we get a little bit more diversity at Harvard or Yale or Ohio State, or we maybe make things a little bit nicer for conservatives, or we found some conservative clubs on campus, no no no no no. Unless we’re willing to de-institutionalize the left in those institutions—or destroy the institutions absent that—we are going to continue to make the most powerful academic actors in our society actively aligned against us. The only way to work is to actually take some of these institutions over.

[koriwhat]

Sounds great! :tu

Seeth and cope WH!

[Winehole23]

Sounds great! :tu

Seeth and cope WH! just following political news like I always do

[SnakeBoy]

JD Vance would purge US universities -- or wreck them entirely -- merely for not being politically aligned with him

We can only hope

[ChumpDumper]

We can only hope

Why do you hope that?

[Winehole23]

We can only hope...to wreck the US University system entirely

...or take it over for a political ideology

[Yonivore]

...to wreck the US University system entirely
It's already wrecked and a cesspool of Leftist Wokism.


...or take it over for a political ideology
I'd settle for just retaking it for higher education.

[Winehole23]

It's already wrecked and a cesspool of Leftist Wokism.


I'd settle for just retaking it for higher education.Totally disagree, the US university system is still the envy of the world-- except maybe for China

[Winehole23]

we aren't a shithole county yet, Yoni

:lol

[ducks]

...to wreck the US University system entirely

...or take it over for a political ideology

It is already for the left …..

[ducks]

we aren't a shithole county yet, Yoni

:lol

Pretty shitty of funding other countries to teach their people about transgender junk

[Winehole23]

It is already for the left …..that wasn't a top down political imposition, it was just the culture

[Winehole23]

Pretty shitty of funding other countries to teach their people about transgender junktrans people exist. it's just a fact.

[ChumpDumper]

It's already wrecked and a cesspool of Leftist Wokism.


I'd settle for just retaking it for higher education.
From which university did you graduate?

[SnakeBoy]

...to wreck the US University system entirely

...or take it over for a political ideology

Either will do

[ChumpDumper]

Either will do

Why?

[Winehole23]

the friend/enemy distinction is key

for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

Snacks doesn't want a proper country for all Americans, just ones that agree with him.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Even in 2013 when I graduated from UNT it was a liberal shithole where conservative, heteronormative, libertarian thinking (not the shitass bible cult clubs) was pretty much nonexistent outside of the fraternity chapters. Affirmation action crap was rampant not just for ghetto blacks who a bunch of them belonged in a jail cell or in a street basketball game and not in college courses, but also for the gay-ass faggots who took over the university-hosted dance party scene back then. If you agreed with Scalia in your paper you got a "C" from the professor, Dr. Thomas Miles, at best...while if you agreed with Stephen Breyer that we should have a "living constitution" then you get a solid A+.


trans people exist. it's just a fact.
how many "trans people" exist in 2025 compared to, say, 1925 or even 1975?

gay is natural.... trans is a mental illness.


It's already wrecked and a cesspool of Leftist Wokism.

This, and the only conservative options are the bible thumper crowd or a fraternity. If you're an average looking dude without connections you've got to pay extra to buy a bid if you want in because their budgets are terrible because the left-wing boards of regents have neutered greek life and by the way, pledge, you're still getting hazed but the university can't know about it. I'd still take getting paddled on the butt, holding a match reciting the greek alphabet, making those homecoming pomps again & crawling through mud with dirty panties in my mouth over the woke shit though.

[ChumpDumper]

Even in 2013 when I graduated from UNT it was a liberal shithole where conservative, heteronormative, libertarian thinking (not the shitass bible cult clubs) was pretty much nonexistent outside of the fraternity chapters. Affirmation action crap was rampant not just for ghetto blacks who a bunch of them belonged in a jail cell or in a street basketball game and not in college courses, but also for the gay-ass faggots who took over the university-hosted dance party scene back then. If you agreed with Scalia in your paper you got a "C" from the professor, Dr. Thomas Miles, at best...while if you agreed with Stephen Breyer that we should have a "living constitution" then you get a solid A+.Did it make you feel bad?



how many "trans people" exist in 2025 compared to, say, 1925 or even 1975?
How would anyone know for sure. You'd be out to murder them.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Did it make you feel bad?



How would anyone know for sure. You'd be out to murder them.
Well, I held my proverbial nose and picked the Breyer side, because, I wasn't about to let my GPA slip. But it's a problem. And it's just about every professor.

How would anyone know for sure? Basic statistics. Sure there have always been gays, but part of trans is a mental illness of wanting to feel accepted by people who were otherwise homophobic. Realistically, most people aren't homophobic as long as you're a "normal" gay/lesbian and not a faggy fag like a femboy or a bull dyke type.

[Millennial_Messiah]

the friend/enemy distinction is key

for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

Snacks doesn't want a proper country for all Americans, just ones that agree with him.

:lol


Note after the 2024 result, how few board left wing liberals remain, you guys used to dominate us now we probably outnumber you... haven't heard from DoK/@will hunting since the election, spurraider barely posts, baseline bum/benefactor are on sporadically, the trolls like pavlov, titan, ef-man, spurs homer are gone because they have to eat a shit salad... boutons_deux (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=16047) is a communist TOSB...... all that granted that means a deader board. All we need is Spurtacular (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=49615) to come back. :lol #FreeDerp2025

[ChumpDumper]

How would anyone know for sure? Basic statistics.Statistics gathered by whom?

Who would self-report as trans while you wanted to kill them?

[Winehole23]

Rutgers got a backbone


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[Winehole23]

Princeton too


The University has announced that it is considering (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lMcl57cAQD0Sd8snA0QDGmGpaJPKOpCO/view?usp=sharing) selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The sale, first reported on (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-01/princeton-mulls-320-million-bond-sale-as-agencies-freeze-funds) by Bloomberg on Tuesday afternoon, follows the Trump administration’s freezing (https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-federal-government-trump-administration-funding-pause-antisemitism-investigation) of several dozen Princeton research grants. The notice itself does not mention the funding cuts but states that the bonds will serve the University’s “general corporate purposes.”


The bonds, index-eligible with a maturity of five years, are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate (https://disclosure.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/type/HTML/id/3125397) University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-issuing-bonds-same-day-federal-government-pauses-grants

[Thread]

Princeton too

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-issuing-bonds-same-day-federal-government-pauses-grants

In other words...they're selling their shit.
ha, ha.

[Winehole23]

Universities: cringing in advance, mostly

States and localities: bowing up, somewhat


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[Thread]

Universities: cringing in advance, mostly

States and localities: bowing up, somewhat

We shall see.

[Winehole23]

Trumplandia folds on NIH lawsuit by 22 states so it can appeal


A federal judge on Friday ordered a permanent injunction blocking a Trump administration policy that would slash billions in research overhead payments to universities, academic medical centers, and other grant-receiving institutions.


Paradoxically, the Trump administration had requested that very verdict earlier in the day, as it needs a final ruling in order to file an appeal. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/nih-indirect-costs-federal-permanent-injunction/

[Winehole23]

exempted, but unable to access funds, and hit by RIF and consolidation


The federal Head Start outpost in New York City has been shuttered and staff laid off as part of the Trump administration’s recent health department cuts (https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57485/hhs-fda-layoffs-doge-cdc-nih) — worrying preschool leaders about the future of child care for families in poverty.

On Tuesday, providers learned that half of the agency’s regional offices were closed (https://apnews.com/article/head-start-office-closures-hhs-trump-00b1a6b33ef918cb66e59b7ffb07ac13) effective immediately, including the headquarters in New York. Staff based in lower Manhattan were responsible for oversight and guidance for programs statewide and in New Jersey (https://acf.gov/oro/regional-offices/region2).

Federal health officials insisted that consolidating the offices will not impact services while saving taxpayers money. But operators fear the loss of support could have a very tangible impact on their programs.

Angela Terry, executive director of the Bedford Stuyvesant Early Childhood Development Center, which enrolls 247 children through Head Start, was scheduled to connect with a regional office staffer on the day of the layoffs — only to find she was unable to join the Zoom meeting. The specialist told her she was affected by the federal government’s reduction in force.

It was not the first time Head Start programs have been caught in the crossfires of federal changes under President Trump. In January, his administration announced a blanket freeze on federal funding. The White House quickly clarified that Head Start was exempt, but programs reported being unable to access funds (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/head-start-childcare-programs-are-still-unable-access-federal-money-tr-rcna190791) and the consequences of much uncertainty.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/05/nycs-regional-head-start-office-shuttered-as-part-of-trump-admins-health-cuts/

[Winehole23]

Harvard declines Trumplandia's offer to remake it in their own image

Princeton bowed up similarly a week or so ago

Rutgers and a bunch of land grant universities are banding together too


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[Thread]

Harvard declines Trumplandia's offer to remake it in their own image

Princeton bowed up similarly a week or so ago

Rutgers and a bunch of land grant universities are banding together too


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The kicker, Winestern, the absolute livin' end? All these years I just took it for granted that Harvard, Princeton, and Rutgers were owned and operated by super rich people endowing the Universities with boundless cash. LMFAO! The whole fuckin' time they've been getting hand downs by the U.S. gov't, ie., us.

Fuck me!!!

[Winehole23]

MIT flips Trumplandia the bird

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[Blake]

Retard felon dumbfuck Trump taking on the Ivy League schools it's truly a sight to behold.

[Thread]

Retard felon dumbfuck Trump taking on the Ivy League schools it's truly a sight to behold.


The kicker, Blake, the absolute livin' end? All these years I just took it for granted that MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and Rutgers were owned and operated by super rich people endowing the Universities with boundless cash. LMFAO! The whole fuckin' time they've been getting hand downs by the U.S. gov't, ie., us.

Fuck me!!!

[Winehole23]

Retard felon dumbfuck Trump taking on the Ivy League schools it's truly a sight to behold.they're not gonna let some rich asshole from Queens, NY boss them around

(Harvard University is 140 years older than the USA)

[ChumpDumper]

:lol both Trump and Vance are Ivy Leaguers.

How bad could they think the schools are?

[Winehole23]

:lol both Trump and Vance are Ivy Leaguers.

How bad could they think the schools are?Obviously, they'd very much like to take the Ivy League over

They want it for themselves

[Thread]

they're not gonna let some rich asshole from Queens, NY boss them around

(Harvard University is 140 years older than the USA)

And finally 140 years in we find old Harv has been on the public dole all 140 years.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[Thread]

Obviously, they'd very much like to take the Ivy League over

They want it for themselves

...you mean [ourselves] where (it) came from for over 140 years.

[Winehole23]

https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-16-at-13.21.46.png

[Blake]

"...Early Targets of Harvard Funding Cuts: Tuberculosis, ALS Research

The university is learning which projects will be hit as the emails arrive...."

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-funding-cuts-targets-b794e431

[Thread]

"...Early Targets of Harvard Funding Cuts: Tuberculosis, ALS Research

The university is learning which projects will be hit as the emails arrive...."

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-funding-cuts-targets-b794e431

Hallelujah!!!

[SnakeBoy]

Harvard University may lose its tax-exempt status after refusing the President Donald Trump's wide-ranging demands for changes at the private Ivy League university, CNN and the Washington Post reported on April 16.

According to the Post, the Trump administration asked the IRS to revoke the Cambridge, Massachusetts university's tax-exempt status. CNN reported that the agency is making plans to do so.

https://media.tenor.com/EZtOA2gY9VIAAAAM/find-out-fuck-around.gif

[ChumpDumper]

Harvard University may lose its tax-exempt status after refusing the President Donald Trump's wide-ranging demands for changes at the private Ivy League university, CNN and the Washington Post reported on April 16.

According to the Post, the Trump administration asked the IRS to revoke the Cambridge, Massachusetts university's tax-exempt status. CNN reported that the agency is making plans to do so.

https://media.tenor.com/EZtOA2gY9VIAAAAM/find-out-fuck-around.gif
All they need to do is say they're a church.

You can't touch them.:tu

[Thread]

All they need to do is say they're a church.

You can't touch them.:tu

True, and they're already crawlin', that Harvard belly? It's a draggin'. Go on, Harv, crawl some more...

Let us proceed...

[Winehole23]

In 1998 (https://bsky.app/profile/smbrnsn.bsky.social/post/3lmxlgx4pok2o), Congress explicitly provided that the President could not, directly or indirectly, request that the IRS start or end an audit or other investigation of a taxpayer. www.taxnotes.com/research/fed... (https://www.taxnotes.com/research/federal/usc26/7217) 1/


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[Winehole23]

Why did Congress enact this law? Literally to prevent what Trump is doing here. Like, this is precisely the kind of behavior Congress wanted to prevent. 2/ www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-105JPRT52240/pdf/CPRT-105JPRT52240.pdf)


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[Winehole23]

(I'll note that violating this subjects a person to up to a $5,000 fine and/or up to five years in prison.)

[baseline bum]

Trump's reason to tax them is bullshit, but Harvard is a hedge fund that on the side offers classes for the silver spoon Jared Cuckners of the world and absolutely deserves to be taxed. As do the rest of the Ivies.

[Thread]

Trump's reason to tax them is bullshit, but Harvard is a hedge fund that on the side offers classes for the silver spoon Jared Cuckners of the world and absolutely deserves to be taxed. As do the rest of the Ivies.

bum

[Winehole23]

DHS trying to muscle Harvard now, just out and out weaponization of government


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[Thread]

DHS trying to muscle Harvard now, just out and out weaponization of government


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Their foreign students are breaking the law. Just because Biden let them get away with it has no bearing on Trump.

Kick their violent asses out of this country.

[Winehole23]

kind of hilarious apart from the fact it's a blatant abuse of power

according to anonymous sauces

Trumplandia started a war with Harvard by mistake but were insulted by Harvard's response, so they're going to sue them and withhold the money anyway


The letter was sent by the acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services, Sean Keveney, according to three other people, who were briefed on the matter. Mr. Keveney is a member of the antisemitism task force.

It is unclear what prompted the letter to be sent last Friday. Its content was authentic, the three people said, but there were differing accounts inside the administration of how it had been mishandled. Some people at the White House believed it had been sent prematurely, according to the three people, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal discussions. Others in the administration thought it had been meant to be circulated among the task force members rather than sent to Harvard.

But its timing was consequential. The letter arrived when Harvard officials believed they could still avert a confrontation with President Trump. Over the previous two weeks, Harvard and the task force had engaged in a dialogue. But the letter’s demands were so extreme that Harvard concluded that a deal would ultimately be impossible.

After Harvard publicly repudiated the demands, the Trump administration raised the pressure, freezing billions in federal funding to the school and warning that its tax-exempt status was in jeopardy.

A senior White House official said the administration stood by the letter, calling the university’s decision to publicly rebuff the administration overblown and blaming Harvard for not continuing discussions.

“It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A08.GUc4.IOal nrHNXLuy&smid=url-share

[Winehole23]

RIF hits the Air Force Academy


The loss of professors holding doctoral degrees could lead to programs losing their accreditation and make it tough to attract top engineering candidates, professors said. There is also fear that the top freshmen and sophomores might transfer out of the programs, they said. The instructors spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation.

The loss of accredited programs also could hurt cadets’ chances at getting into graduate school, professors said.


https://gazette.com/military/proposed-civilian-faculty-cuts-at-air-force-academy-raise-alarms-over-critical-engineering-programs/article_c577aa52-7873-4dfe-b2ba-359c54892af4.html

[Winehole23]

Taking the educate out of education


The Air Force Academy has rolled out a new mission statement that drops the word “educate” and adds in a focus on winning wars.
The statement was posted recently on the academy’s website.

The new mission is: “To forge leaders of character, motivated to a lifetime of service, and developed to lead our Air Force and Space Force as we fight and win our Nation’s wars.”

An academy spokesperson said the statement reflects the priorities outlined by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to develop warrior-leaders prepared to lead warfighters.

The previous mission statement was: “To educate, train and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the U.S. Air Force and Space Force in service to our nation.”

The older mission statement is closer to the one at West Point.

The U.S. Military Academy states its mission is: “To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and nation.”

The Naval Academy places emphasis on ideals, as well as a well-rounded education, in its statement.

The academy’s mission is: “To develop Midshipmen morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to graduate leaders who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for future development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.”
https://gazette.com/military/proposed-civilian-faculty-cuts-at-air-force-academy-raise-alarms-over-critical-engineering-programs/article_c577aa52-7873-4dfe-b2ba-359c54892af4.html

[Winehole23]

Trump's stop work orders can hit the bricks, Northwestern University will self-fund


Northwestern University is planning to self-fund research projects targeted to be stripped of federal funding.

While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 federal grants. The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html) earlier this month that the Trump administration planned to freeze $790 million (https://wgntv.com/evanston/northwestern-prepares-for-trump-administration-to-freeze-790-million-in-funding/) in funding that had been earmarked for the Evanston university.

“The University, after consultation with the Board of Trustees, will fund research that is subject to stop-work orders or the federal funding freeze,” Board of Trustees Chairman Peter Barris and President Michael Schill wrote in a Thursday letter (https://www.northwestern.edu/leadership-notes/2025/enabling-vital-research-to-continue.html) to the Northwestern community. “This support is intended to keep these projects going until we have a better understanding of the funding landscape.’
https://wgntv.com/evanston/northwestern-university-funding-research-trump-administration-freeze/

[Thread]

Trump's stop work orders can hit the bricks, Northwestern University will self-fund

https://wgntv.com/evanston/northwestern-university-funding-research-trump-administration-freeze/

Bully, bully for Northwestern University!

[Winehole23]

Harvard sues Trumplandia


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sop to Silicon Valley techlords


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Trumplandia aiming at college (and med school) accreditation

sharpening its eyes on the illegal political ideology (hitherto constitutionally protected political speech)

commonly referred to as DEI and diversity

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... (https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reforming-accreditation-to-strengthen-higher-education/)

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and with this one Trumplandia seeks to dismantle the 1964 Civil Rights Act

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/

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"I'm President...and their not."

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is that bad?


On March 13, Nature encouraged its readers to take part in a survey to determine whether scientists are planning to leave the U.S.

The first question asked "are you a researcher in the U.S. who is considering leaving the country following the disruptions to science prompted by the Trump administration?

The survey's questions were also shared on social media and in the Nature Briefing email newsletter.

Of the 1,608 respondents who answered whether they are researchers planning to leave the U.S, 75 percent responded "yes."

The results show that those who have recently started their scientific careers or studies are especially eager to leave. Of the 690 postgraduate researchers who responded, 548 said they were considering leaving, as well as 255 of 340 Ph.D. students.

When asked about preferred destinations, the most popular choices were Canada and Europe.

One respondent said that if they left the U.S., they would like to go "anywhere that supports science."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-leave-us-over-trump-nature-survey-2052067

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The bestest of this campaign remains finding out the millions and billions these upper crust institutions have been getting for decades! Big shots, Winester, huh? Had their noses in the air all these decades and they was on the gov't tit the entire time. And the kicker, the livin' end? One administration after another, R & D alike never uttered a peep, no matter their differences with one another's administration, they held that fuckin' line.........cept the old man.

Trump did that.

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will top-notch talent attend service academies if they can't get a good education for free?

fundamentally misguided recruitment strategy, seems to me

but maybe the service academies are getting ideologically streamlined rn



While the Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week reassuring them of a quality education at the school, a definitive plan for layoffs among faculty and staff is still in the works.


According to our news partners at The Gazette (https://gazette.com/military/air-force-academys-staff-cuts-unclear-amid-mass-resignations-cadets-assured-of-world-class-education/article_68d431ec-c9fd-4dab-8092-e731ec99f4e2.html), among the academy's civilians around 140 have resigned through the federal government's two deferred resignation programs, but the school is expected to lay off a significant number of additional civilians, according to internal communication and professors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity after attending presentations on cuts.



As a result of the cuts, the academy may need to eliminate majors and minors and cut the number of hours required to graduate, the internal communication said.


During a presentation on April 11, Superintendent Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind said that the Air Force is expected to cut 5,000 civilian positions in the 2025 must-pass legislation known as the National Defense Authorization Act, according to a detailed account of the event.
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/air-force-academys-staff-cuts-unclear-amid-mass-resignations-cadets-assured-of-world-class-education

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Trumplandia's highly-contrived and aggressively pretextual deployment of anti-antisemitism

apparently also includes anti-anti-antisemitism

https://forward.com/fast-forward/716347/antisemitism-bill-congress-jews-jesus/

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(eyebrows have been raised about the polls directed to Jewish individuals)

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Trumplandia's highly-contrived and aggressively pretextual deployment of antisemitism

apparently also includes anti-anti-antisemitism

https://forward.com/fast-forward/716347/antisemitism-bill-congress-jews-jesus/

I thought it was A-OK to go overboard when rooting out antisemitism? What happened?

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The expulsion of expertise from government and academia during Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated China for decades, particularly in science and technology. That profound harm led the country to take education as seriously as it does today.

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Trump's war on education is a war on special ed and reasonable accommodations for kids with disabilities


Time and again, the U.S. Department of Education has been the last resort for parents who say the state of Idaho has failed to educate their children. The federal agency in 2023 ordered Idaho to stop blocking some students with learning disabilities, like dyslexia, from special education. That same year, it flagged that the state’s own reviews of districts and charters obscured the fact that just 20% were fully complying with the federal disability law. Last year, it told the state it must end long delays in services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, which could include speech or physical therapy.

Now President Donald Trump has pledged to dismantle the department.

Idaho’s superintendent of public instruction Debbie Critchfield has celebrated the proposal. She insisted that the move would not change the requirement that states provide special education to students who need it. That would take an act of Congress.

But parents and advocates for students with disabilities say they are worried that no one will effectively ensure schools follow special education law.

“Historically, when left to their own devices, states don’t necessarily do the right thing for kids with disabilities and their families,” said Larry Wexler, a former division director at the federal Office of Special Education Programs, who retired last year after decades at the department.
https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-idaho-students-disabilities-trump

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Trump ordering US agencies to terminate signed, competitive grants has no valid legal basis

It's also a grotesque attack on the rule of law

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Trump cancelling visa interviews will fuck up a lot of colleges and universities. J- visitors include resorts and summer camps.

If Trump is trying to make the USA a much poorer garrison state he's well on the way. Wrecking education is fucking boneheaded.

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trade balance is much in our favor wrt education -- or has been up til now

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there were about 1.1 million foreign university students in the US for the 2023-2024 school year

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Barack Obama: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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(oh wait, that was Linda McMahon)

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Rubio announces official crackdown on Chinese students in the US

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Rubio announces official crackdown on Chinese students in the US

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Rubio knows what they're doing to foreign students is incredibly stupid and bad for the country but he has to do whatever Trump wants or be fired.

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Rubio knows what they're doing to foreign students is incredibly stupid and bad for the country but he has to do whatever Trump wants or be fired.what a coward

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from the Harvard Crimson



Recently, the Harvard administration has engaged in an admirable strategy which might be summarized as: “We shall fight in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/05/Harvard-Visa-Complaint.pdf). We shall fight in mild-mannered Jewish doctor (https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-president-alan-garber-trump-fight-5082903a) interviews with the Wall Street Journal. We shall fight in the court of public opinion by subtly taking on (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/29/harvard-oedib-renamed/) many of the reforms that are being asked of us, but claiming we were going to do it all along (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/27/harvard-suspends-birzeit-partnership/#:~:text=Simon%2C%20the%20HSPH%20spokesperson%2C%2 0said%20the%20FXB%20Center%20review%20came%20as%20 part%20of%20the%20school%E2%80%99s%20regular%20pra ctice%20of%20conducting%20periodic%20reviews%20of% 20its%20centers.).”

It is hard to tell which approach, exactly, would land with the Trump administration. Some have argued that the MAGA right only respects self-respect, and that in order to win against Trump we need to stand up and be strong. (That hasn’t worked yet (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/funding-freeze-april-trump/).) Some argue that there is no way to win, and universities must swallow major concessions in order to retain their funding. (So far that hasn’t worked, either (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-administration-columbia-accusation.html).)

I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.

Linda — can I call you Linda? — I’ve spent weeks trying to get into your head. My Google Docs is littered with abandoned drafts for every time you have promised this is really it (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/1/trump-review-harvard-funds/), you are really taking Harvard’s funding this time (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/6/no-more-federal-grants/), no please notice me (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/13/second-federal-funding-cut/), here goes another $60 million (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/20/hhs-60-million-cut/).

But I have been met with failure. Maybe it’s because I didn’t get married at 17 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrismarsicano/2024/11/21/who-is-linda-mcmahon-president-elect-trumps-choice-for-ed-secretary/#:~:text=At%2013%2C%20she%20met%20Vince%20McMahon% 2C%20the%20man%20who%20would%20become%20her%20husb and%20and%20business%20partner.%20The%20two%20marr ied%20when%20Linda%20was%2017%2C%20and%20she%20fol lowed%20Vince%20to%20East%20Carolina%20University) , or because I’ve never witnessed my husband get his head shaved (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsrwH9I9vE) by Donald Trump on national television, or because my pedagogical experience leans more front-of-classroom, rather than distributing-bookmarks-featuring-scantily-clad-lady-wrestlers. Some way or another, I’ve never been quite able to figure out how you think.

Until now.

Secretary, you spent nearly three decades as a WWE executive, where you orchestrated such spectacles as “The Undertaker vs. Kane: WrestleMania XIV” and “WWF Badd Blood: In Your House.” Suffice to say, you respect a good fight. And thus I say: Come at me, bro.

In my Jewish name you and your entourage have destroyed research on cancer and heart disease (https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/#:~:text=A%20form%20of%20cancer%20immunotherapy%20 called%20checkpoint%20blockade%20developed%20by%20 HMS%20scientists%20is%20currently%20used%20for%20t he%20treatment%20of%20at%20least%2012%20types%20of %20cancer), threatened to essentially deport my friends (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/trump-admin-revokes-sevp/), and tried to increase Harvard’s tax burden (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html#:~:text=Not%20satisfied%20with %20these%20punishments%2C%20the%20administration%2 0just%20moved%20to%20stop%20Harvard%20from%20enrol ling%20foreign%20students%20and%20has%20threatened %20to%20multiply%20the%20tax%20on%20its%20endowmen t%20as%20much%20as%20fifteenfold%2C%20as%20well%20 as%20to%20remove%20its%20tax%2Dfree%20nonprofit%20 status) fifteenfold. Stop it. Put that down. Let’s settle this like biological women: knock-down, TKO, cage match.

Each of us will get a backup. I choose Joe Blitzstein, he’s huge. You can have Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem; I’ll be sure to hide my dog (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book). If Harvardians are really the lib wimps you say we are, surely you aren’t afraid to throw hands (https://youtu.be/sEIVzBvK3Cw).

Some might argue that putting somebody in a figure-four leg lock has little relevance to “combating antisemitism” or “encouraging common-sense reforms of disciplinary procedures and ideological bias in hiring.” I would argue, though, that choreographed physical violence has about as much to do with the issues at hand as the current strategy of slashing research funding via Twitter diatribes and Canva graphics. Cut the political kayfabe (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/donald-trump-pro-wrestling-wwe-00298303). You want to make us bleed? Then why not just throw a chair at us.

I know, I know, that all this is really because Harvard is the symbol of everyone’s least favorite concept: the elite. But why don’t we make this whole punching bag metaphor literal? I understand if lucha libre is too ethnic for you; Anarchy in the Arena works too.

Right now, as a (non-Marxist) friend of mine wisely pointed out, “this is like in elementary school when one person doesn’t clean up snack so they take away snack for everyone.” We don’t need to indulge this ridiculous collective punishment, which if anything, is more similar to when one person doesn’t clean up snack, so they demolish the part of the classroom where that kid never plays anyway. I promise you, the “Free Palestine” people aren’t spending all their free time in the protozoa lab.

And I know, I know, you love the bit where you’re like “I am working tirelessly to protect the Jewish students abandoned by rabid antisemite Alan Garber (https://forward.com/news/712471/harvard-alan-garber-trump-funding-antisemitism/)!!!” But let me tell you, missy, when you threaten to deport my co-conspirator in writing the weekly Shabbat joke newsletter, along with the literal Israelis who I practice my literal Hebrew with on literal Wednesday mornings, then you really start to lose whatever credibility you had left.
Enough (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/4/harvard-federal-funding-demands/) is enough (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/11/congress-antitrust-probe/) (is enough (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/21/harvard-1-billion-funding/)). I’ll see you on the mat.



Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot House. Like Secretary McMahon, she too sometimes wonders (https://youtu.be/Me6t05z1s_U), “Why is there so much HATE? (https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1919517481313427594?lang=en)”???https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/27/sperling-milner-linda-mcmahon-harvard-wwe/

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State Dept vetting all visa holders at Harvard for "antisemitism"

Having nonpublic social media pages will be considered "evasion"




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US/Texas collusive lawsuit repeals in-state tuition for 20,000 Texas dreamers

ruling reportedly came within seven hours of the lawsuit being filed

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.405008/gov.uscourts.txnd.405008.8.0_1.pdf

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using antisemitism pretextually to wreck institutions and thousands of people's lives puts a target on the backs of Jews

so does conflating criticism of a political state with antisemitism


https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/enhancing-national-security-by-addressing-risks-at-harvard-university/

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Trump cancelling visa interviews will fuck up a lot of colleges and universities. J- visitors include resorts and summer camps.

If Trump is trying to make the USA a much poorer garrison state he's well on the way. Wrecking education is fucking boneheaded.

Picture Trump was a foreign asset working for a hostile nation. What would he be doing any differently?

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Picture Trump was a foreign asset working for a hostile nation. What would he be doing any differently?Nothing

Trump hates America and Americans

He is wrecking shit radically

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Picture Trump was a foreign asset working for a hostile nation. What would he be doing any differently?

Are you think of Russia? This seems to be more about Israel interests.

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https://x.com/DoggyDog1208/status/1933573669596610688

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hRguZr0xCOc

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"You got the papers the Chinaman gave you?"

"Here they are, Dad"

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https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-16-at-13.21.46.png

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censorship and ideological vetting at the water's edge

"no criticizing the US"


The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for government review (https://apnews.com/article/harvard-visa-applicants-social-media-d871408efca521e2dee038da2f22f8c7).

The department said consular officers will be on the lookout for posts and messages that could be deemed hostile to the United States, its government, culture, institutions or founding principles.
https://apnews.com/article/student-visas-trump-social-media-6632a2c585245edcd6a63594345dd8c7

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in the Trump regime, free speech and universities take it on the chin


There are going to be big changes for this university, and the pace at which this is being pushed through is not designed for positive outcomes,” she said. “I have to say that my faculty colleagues are in panic to a degree that I have never seen before.”

Most of the low enrollment degrees are in the humanities and languages. Jewish Studies, Classical Studies and multiple language departments could lose their main offerings.


From 2020 to 2022, IU Bloomington conferred more humanities doctorates than any other university in the country, according to data from Carnegie Classifications (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982683-wtiuesandweiss15mar2024-final/). It also ranks first for number of languages taught (https://web.archive.org/web/20250624180658/https:/bloomington.iu.edu/about/ranking-statistics.html), for now.


New STEM programs in areas deemed critical to the state (https://web.archive.org/web/20250429012539/https:/iub2030.indiana.edu/implementation/research.html) also failed to reach the threshold in 2022-23. Those included artificial intelligence, microbiology and cyber operations and warfare.

https://wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/hundreds-of-iu-degree-programs-at-risk-of-disappearing/

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The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France

MARSEILLE, France — The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump's America for France have arrived.

Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the institution's “Safe Place for Science" program, which aims to woo researchers who have experienced or fear funding cuts under the Trump administration. AMU offers the promise of a brighter future in the sun-drenched Mediterranean port city.

While both France and the European Union have launched multimillion-euro plans to woo researchers across the pond since Trump assumed the U.S. presidency in January, AMU's initiative was the first of its kind in the country — meaning the eight researchers who were welcomed are the first academic refugees planning to trade the United States for France.

Speaking from the university’s hilltop astrophysics lab, AMU President Eric Berton likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II.

“What is at play here today is not unrelated to another dark period of our history,” he said.
...



https://www.politico.eu/article/meet-first-academic-refugees-fleeing-us-france-science-program/

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Trump's war on civilization and US prosperity


https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-16-at-13.21.46.png


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Columbia caves

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Linda McMahon admits that the controversy is about revenge for disfavored speech, not antisemitism


"This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."

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with the precedent established at Columbia, Trump is now shaking down other colleges and universities pretextually



White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent
The Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitismhttps://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-columbia-trump-white-house-fines-payment-deal-settlement-d61aa9c6

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For instance, the agreement marks the first time that antisemitism and DEI have been invoked as the basis for a government-enforced restructuring of a private university. The agreement was engineered by a novel collaboration (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/18/antisemitism-task-force-dei-universities-trump/) among the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, and the White House, which pooled their resources to ratchet up the pressure on Columbia (with some help on the side (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/justice-department-investigates-columbia-university-amid-growing-deportation-crackdown) from the Department of Justice). The agreement is also the first to require a university to fork over money to the government as a condition of receiving money from the government, bringing a new brand of pay-to-play into the world of scientific and medical research.


In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme—the first of its kind!—that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First Amendment.

There is another unprecedented feature of the situation that is so obvious it is easy to overlook, and that might ultimately prove the most consequential of all: the way in which the federal government is seeking to reshape the internal operations of universities not through generally applicable directives, but rather through a series of bilateral “deals.” The Trump administration has made clear (https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/columbia-university-deal-trump-funding) that while Columbia is first in line, it intends to reach comparable agreements with other schools—to scale the Columbia shakedown into a broader model of managing universities deemed too woke. As has already occurred with law firms, tariffs, and trade policy, regulation by deal is coming to higher education.https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html

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This emerging model raises profound concerns not just for universities’ budgets and independence but also for the rule of law. By relying on “particular transactions to effectuate government policy,” scholars have observed (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/07/Transactional-Administration.pdf) in other contexts, regulation by deal bypasses all of the “notice, comments, [and] due process standards that we ordinarily expect from public administration.” While guidance documents may share some of these deficits, they are not actually binding (https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-19000-limitation-issuance-guidance-documents-1) on regulated parties and at least aspire to uphold bedrock legal principles (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rule-of-law/) of “generality, clarity, publicity, stability, and prospectivity.” The style of regulation reflected in the Columbia deal is at once far more coercive and far more arbitrary—opaque in development, unpredictable in application, deeply susceptible to personalism and corruption, and only contingently connected to the laws Congress has written. As compared to the familiar fare of public administration, “one-off dealmaking is more about back-door terms, forceful results, and unequal application of standards, to the extent standards exist at all (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-law-journal/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/07/Transactional-Administration.pdf).”

[Winehole23]

I cannot hope to convince those who are determined to “dismantle (https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/opinion/columbias-campus-hate-starts-with-faculty-reform-it-first/)” universities like Columbia and Harvard that the ends don’t justify the means here. (Nor can I offer an assessment of the precise terms (https://president.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/July%202025%20Announcement/Columbia%20University%20Resolution%20Agreement.pdf ) of the Columbia agreement, which I have not yet had a chance to study.) All I hope to convey is that the means being used to push through these reforms are as unprincipled as they are unprecedented. Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself.

[Winehole23]

during the last week, Brown and Cornell paid heavy tributes and bent the knee to Trump

now Trump's policing "antisemitism" at UCLA

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-31/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-ucla

[koriwhat]

Imagine being this upset when education was already at an all-time low and pushing retards out into the work force who can't even do basic math. Fuck the education department and glad it's getting eradicated!

[Winehole23]

Resegregation is the order of the day


Scenario modeling based on a potential 30-40 percent decline in new international student enrollment in the United States this fall could result in a 15 percent drop in overall enrollment. This drop would result in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

[Winehole23]

Wants to fine UCLA a billion dollars, wants to strip Harvard of its patents to force it to pay tribute money to Trump

How is any of this lawful, needful or proportionate?

Free speech/academic freedom crew, wherre arre you now?

[Winehole23]

whither goes the reason to register technical innovation and discovery when the government can seize it to extort the holder?

[SnakeBoy]

Free speech/academic freedom crew, wherre arre you now?

Libs told them to fuck off so they did

[Winehole23]

Libs told them to fuck off so they didoh right, mean talk from libs is the worst thing in the world for tuff guise like you

and must be ruthlessly quashed

[Winehole23]

no principles, only tactics

[Winehole23]

free-speech frens, where did you go?

[Winehole23]

What Trump is doing to higher education is stupendously unpopular

Dems need to start identifying hills they're willing to fight on, this might be a good one, Republicans are wrecking future prosperity and degrading US quality of life



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[koriwhat]

free-speech frens, where did you go?

Why would I advocate for rights guaranteed to Americans for you commie bastards? Fuck them all!

[ChumpDumper]

Why would I advocate for rights guaranteed to Americans for you commie bastards? Fuck them all!

Fuck all Americans?

Really showing your ass here, pedo.

[Winehole23]

one thing that stands out for me is the extent to which MAGAs are apparently willing to see Trump set their own futures on fire -- so long as an extraordinary example is made of uppity women, minorities and gays

[Winehole23]

Gleichschaltung -- ideological streamlining

German universities were the best in the world before they did it in the 1930s

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[Winehole23]

more coercion and ideological streamlining


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[Winehole23]

DEI for conservatives, with enforcement mechanisms


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[Winehole23]

shame on UT-Austin



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[Winehole23]

US states have power to incentivize institutions too


“If any California (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california) University signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom,” Newsom said in the statement. Cal Grants is the state’s $2.8bn student financial aid program.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/02/california-university-funding-trump-compact

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

The standard is not what was said, but whether it became the object of political outrage....Faculty and staff must assume that any statement — even one squarely protected by the First Amendment —could lead to dismissal if it attracts the wrong attention.https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-will-clemson-censor-next

[koriwhat]

one thing that stands out for me is the extent to which MAGAs are apparently willing to see Trump set their own futures on fire -- so long as an extraordinary example is made of uppity women, minorities and gays

I'd rather Trump get the job done already; should've killed all involved with the Weathermen/Weather Underground when we had a chance decades past. Fuck all them affluent bitches and their junkie counterparts.

[Winehole23]

I'd rather Trump get the job done already; should've killed all involved with the Weathermen/Weather Underground when we had a chance decades past. Fuck all them affluent bitches and their junkie counterparts.^^^Trumpy blackshirt making a blacklist

[koriwhat]

^^^Trumpy blackshirt making a blacklist

WTF are you even talking about... "I'm so cool with my cryptic bs."

[Winehole23]

got u

[ChumpDumper]

I'd rather Trump get the job done already; should've killed all involved with the Weathermen/Weather Underground when we had a chance decades past. Fuck all them affluent bitches and their junkie counterparts.

^ has no future

[Winehole23]

blackshirts like kw are glad to see their own future incinerated by Trump, so long as exemplary punishment is visited on women, minorities and gays

and of course the dirty fucking liberals

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Brown,Virginia and Penn have also turned down Trump's offer of coercive funding

[GAustex]

Cut em off

[Winehole23]

Dartmouth turns Trump down

[GAustex]

Cut em off

[ChumpDumper]

Cut em off

Why are you afraid of Brown?

[Winehole23]

And Dartmouth?

[Winehole23]

Trump's ill-health and mental decline figure in here

Institutions can outlast him

[Winehole23]

University of Arizona turns down Trump's compact for preferred spending

[Winehole23]

UVA bends the knee



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[Winehole23]

UVA has acquiesced to Trump's demand that it discriminate against people and deny them public accommodations


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[Winehole23]

the large monetary figure on p.3

https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/confidential-rule-408-communication-ucla-08-08-25.pdf

[Winehole23]

Cornell paid a fine to get their funding back

The government can start investigations at will



It's a brutal environment

UCal system just axed postdoc spending

[Winehole23]

Coercive funding and unconstitutional enforcement are approximately Trump's whole deal

[BadMotorscooter]

Mental decline bad now?.....lmao

[ChumpDumper]

Mental decline bad now?.....lmaoYou want people to be as stupid as you.

[koriwhat]

blackshirts like kw are glad to see their own future incinerated by Trump, so long as exemplary punishment is visited on women, minorities and gays

and of course the dirty fucking liberals

Your Communist Party smears don't work bro. I am not against women, minorities, nor the gays, not in the least. If I was Black, you'd call me an Uncle Tom, wouldn't you?

Dirty fucking liberals isn't a descriptor I'd attach to those Liberals of the past but most definitely to the Progressives of today who hide behind such a pleasant moniker in order to hide their nefarious Communist ties.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol you don't know what communism is

[Winehole23]

prior restraint of speech at Texas A&M

so much for academic freedom at A&M


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[Winehole23]

24/7 snitch lines at Texas A&M for students to correct the professor's accuracy and expertise

I don't know why any professor would willingly abide these work conditions


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[Yonivore]

24/7 snitch lines at Texas A&M for students to correct the professor's accuracy and expertise

I don't know why any professor would willingly abide these work conditions
I agree, they should resign in protest.

[Blake]

24/7 snitch lines at Texas A&M for students to correct the professor's accuracy and expertise

I don't know why any professor would willingly abide these work conditions


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[Winehole23]

Prior restraint of speech at universities good

Republican speech codes are becoming more widespread

[ChumpDumper]

I agree, they should resign in protest.

What is the students are wrong?

[Blake]

I agree, they should resign in protest.

Yoni wants real experts to bend the knee to Bible beating politicians.

[koriwhat]

Yoni wants real experts to bend the knee to Bible beating politicians.

"real experts", let me share an anecdotal experience when I was in college many moons ago. Took computer graphics, photoshop 101, one of my last semesters to earn an easy A and I came out with a B+ unfortunately. My grade had nothing to do with the fact that I was top of class but more to do with my professor's lack of being an "expert" seeing how he wasn't trained in computing whatsoever and came from a illustration background, I should know because I took a course with him a few semester's back. He was appointed to the class due to a shortage of professors and not because he knew anything he was to "teach".

I got the grade I did because he was outraged that all the students would come to me to learn while he just read out of the book instead. Running up to the finals, I had a D+ that is until we had surveys issued to us by the Admin and I asked a simple question, "Why am I almost failing when I am basically the teacher in this class?". My only saving grace was all the students who stood up and voiced their frustrations too and had my back confirming I was teaching them all. The Admin had a little talk outside with my professor, the "expert", and I ended up with a B+. Guess an A+ would've been too generous... :lmao

Your same "experts" told us to stand 6ft apart during covid and that turned out to be complete horse shit. Same "experts" claimed Russia, Russia, Russia. Same "experts"...

Not everyone is an "expert" just like you're not an "expert" on marriage. :tu

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^ Never provides any links or evidence to anything. Just pulls shit out of his high school drop-out drugged-up ass.

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^ Never provides any links or evidence to anything. Just pulls shit out of his high school drop-out drugged-up ass.

What evidence would I have for an anecdotal experience? Are you this dumb, BlaKKKe? Sorry I asked because I already know the answer.

Btw, thanks for assuring us all how you "ignore" my posts. :lmao

Why are you such a bitch? :lol

[koriwhat]

We really should cull bitch males like you BlaKKKe. That should be our Nation's number one issue.

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Lol uneducated rants

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Lol uneducated rants

Uneducated? I don't see you calling your eGF uneducated when that dumb bitch claimed Commies weren't carrying party cards, why is that? Is it because, clearly I'm more educated on the subject than either of yall? What else, computers? Keeping a relationship? Other misc subjects?

Bro, you can beat that drum all you'd like and hope everyone here buys your bs but at the end of the day, no man takes you seriously. You're a fucking bitch male and nothing is going to change that reality for you.

Educate me then you fucking low info low iq retard, BlaKKKe! :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Joey thinks there are still cards

[Blake]

:lol Joey thinks there are still cards

:lol just another reason why no one takes him seriously.

[koriwhat]

:lol just another reason why no one takes him seriously.

No one takes you seriously, not even your Ex. You're a shell of a man, a "man" who can not refute most of what's said and contributes nothing but your tantrums, bitch boy BlaKKKe.

Btw, since you quoted Brooke, no I am not under the impression commies carry party cards today, I'm not sure of it though, but that dumb bitch didn't even know they carried party cards in the past and yet here she is pretending otherwise. She's the fucking retard! Dumb bitch!

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Lemme guess: angry hate filled rant.

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Lemme guess: angry hate filled rant.

Why don't you ever contribute? Nada... Nothing... Just bs because you're a frail retard.

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Lemme guess: angry hate filled rant.

[koriwhat]

Let me guess, BlaKKKe contributes nothing once again... :lol

[ChumpDumper]

lol another Joey meltdown

[Winehole23]

UCLA profs get a preliminary injunction against Trump trying to extort UCLA to turn civil rights upside down and institute speech codes

No doubt it will be appealed


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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

the finding of coercive conduct by the government could turn out to be significant

[Winehole23]

I agree, they should resign in protest.the college where undergrads can veto the professors is a college of idiots

[Winehole23]

during the last week, Brown and Cornell paid heavy tributes and bent the knee to Trump

now Trump's policing "antisemitism" at UCLA

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-31/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-uclabully on UCLA and AAUP for turning this over

[Winehole23]

legal US permanent resident and Texas A&M scientist Will Kim freed after months of abusive and arbitrary ICE detention

every US officer who touched this should go to prison


https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/immigration/article/texas-am-student-released-immigration-21190951.php

[Winehole23]

former DOJ lawyers spill the tea



The prime example I saw was the investigation into the U.C. school system about allegations of antisemitism on campus. In March, Andrea Lucas, who Trump appointed to be acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, filed what’s called a Commissioner’s Charge, which is essentially a complaint of employment discrimination. It was my section’s job to investigate it. We were told: “You have 30 days to do an investigation and give us a Justification Memo” — which is what we write after we conclude there is a legal violation.

Multiple teams of attorneys went to Berkeley, U.C.L.A., U.C. Davis and U.C.S.F. Mostly they didn’t find sufficient evidence to bring suit. The teams were so scared that in real time, every day, they were summarizing and reporting up to office management, back to Michael Gates, the deputy assistant attorney general, to create a paper trail for how they were not finding evidence.

Julia Quinn, Civil Rights Division: Leo Terrell, who ran the antisemitism task force, sells merch, and one of the very few people in our office who stayed behind, who got in with the administration, bought a hat, one of his “Leo 2.0” hats. He had it in the background of a Zoom.


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Protesters at U.C.L.A. in March after the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University. Daniel Cole/Reuters

Ejaz Baluch: The only school, it became clear, where there might be a violation was U.C.L.A. One colleague said, “We have to feed something to the wolves.” The team concluded that the complaint process at the school was broken. Some professors we interviewed really did suffer on campus. They were harassed by groups of students.

But the D.O.J. demand letter to U.C.L.A. asked for $1 billion in damages. We thought, $1 billion? They are making that up out of thin air. There is no way the damages we found added up to anything like that amount.
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[Winehole23]

only Congress can dismantle US agencies created by law

Trump gunning for Special Ed this way is an abdication of good governance and frankly tyrannical


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[Winehole23]

Universities with fair hiring policies targeted

Resegregation of the workforce is the order of the day


The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices, according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.


The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices – if they “openly engage in DEI hiring practices” or set DEI objectives for candidate pools.



Elite institutions including Stanford University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and the University of Southern California are among those marked for suspension, effective 1 January 2026. Other targeted schools include American University, George Washington University, Syracuse University and several University of California campuses.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/universities-state-department-dei-research-program

[Winehole23]

Prior restraint of speech and state control of curriculum at Texas A&M



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[Winehole23]

Foreign students pay higher tuition, making more room for US students at universities

Foreign students spend about $55B a year into the US economy -- ~1/4 of all foreign consumer expenditures in the US

The WH just blasted this out as "good news you might have missed"


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[Winehole23]

valid H-1B visa holding prof at OU arrested


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.


College of International Studies professor Joshua Landis wrote in a Monday post (https://x.com/joshua_landis/status/1993028597960016204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1993028597960016204%7Ctwgr% 5Ecdc54fcb7f0094686b2568a672f58320dddb60b8%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Furl %3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjoshua_landis%2Fsta tus%2F1993028597960016204) on the social platform X that Vahid Abedini (https://www.ou.edu/cis/people/faculty/vahid-abedini), an Iranian Studies professor, was boarding a flight on his way to attend the Middle East Studies Association (https://mesana.org/) in Washington, D.C. Abedini was then detained and placed in jail, according to Landis.



“We’re waiting for him to get in front of a court. We were hoping (it) would be today, but of course, the lawyers say, ‘Oh, that’ll never happen,’” Landis said. “Because it evidently just takes forever to get a court hearing, so you just languish in jail.”

Landis, who also serves as the co-director of the Center for Middle East Studies (https://www.ou.edu/cis/research/center-for-middle-east-studies), said he helped Abedini with his legal documentation, and believes Abedini has followed all necessary steps to lawfully stay in the country.

“This guy is illegally detained. He's following all the laws. The university has been following the laws. He's been impeccable about doing everything and signing papers, and I was deeply involved in that process,” Landis said. “The university has been extremely diligent in doing its duty.”https://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-professor-arrest-ice-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/article_22f9ca06-9ed3-4df2-8f3d-08a5464d017f.html

[Blake]

Foreign students pay higher tuition, making more room for US students at universities

Foreign students spend about $55B a year into the US economy -- ~1/4 of all foreign consumer expenditures in the US

The WH just blasted this out as "good news you might have missed"

Fucking morons.

[Winehole23]

Texas Tech flow chart illustrates what state control of curriculum looks like

So much for academic freedom and free speech for instructors


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library agency snapped back


December 3, 2025
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersedes any prior notices which may have been received related to grant termination.

Grantees should access the agency's electronic grants management system for further information.

https://www.imls.gov/news/statement-agencys-reinstatement-terminated-imls-grants

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valid H-1B visa holding prof at OU arrested



https://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-professor-arrest-ice-immigration-and-customs-enforcement/article_22f9ca06-9ed3-4df2-8f3d-08a5464d017f.htmlreleased after three days in ICE detention, more or less without explanation

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Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return

WASHINGTON – Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.

A Dec. 5 email obtained by USA TODAY shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back later this month. In the "return to duty" directive, officials acknowledged they're facing a sizable caseload of civil rights complaints, and they underscored a need to utilize every resource at the government’s disposal to work through them.

The agency said the request applies to roughly 250 workers who've been on administrative leave for months amid legal challenges to their March firings. Julie Hartman, the Education Department's press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren't any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.

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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/06/education-department-civil-rights-office-trump/87643095007/

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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/06/education-department-civil-rights-office-trump/87643095007/The Trump/DOGE mass firings eliminated necessary state capacity, not waste and fraud. Begging fired civil service to come back to work proves it.

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completely optional civilizational deteriorationModern industry does not so much depend upon factory workers as engineers, suppliers and technicians supervised by very highly qualified people

The new pattern of automation and productivity in the USA is college-heavy, not blue collar heavy

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one thing that stands out for me is the extent to which MAGAs are apparently willing to see Trump set their own futures on fire -- so long as an extraordinary example is made of uppity women, minorities and gays

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(and poor people)

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(greedy bastards)

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OU students have veto power over professors


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OU telling OU student journalists to file open record requests to find out about university policies


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pretextual investigation of colleges, deprofessionalization of the DOJ continues apace


Four attorneys said they were particularly troubled by two matters. First, they were asked to write up a “j-memo” — a justification memorandum — that explained why UC should face a lawsuit “before we even knew the facts,” one attorney said.


“Then there was the PR campaign,” the attorney said, referring to announcements beginning with a Feb. 28, 2025, press release (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-task-force-combat-antisemitism-announces-visits-10-college-campuses-experienced) saying investigators would be visiting UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC and seven other universities nationwide because the campuses “have experienced antisemitic incidents since October 2023.”


“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Jen Swedish, a former deputy chief on the employment discrimination team who worked on the UCLA case, said “virtually everything about the UC investigation was atypical.”


“The political appointees essentially determined the outcome almost before the investigation had even started,” said Swedish, referring to Trump administration officials who declared publicly that punishing colleges for antisemitism would be a priority. She resigned in May.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucla-antisemitism-investigation

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this article by Charles Ornstein is only tangentially about education and more about the official change in demeanor under Trump 2.0

to hostility, peevishness and self-pity


This summer, my colleagues were reporting out a story about the Department of Education’s “final mission,” (https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump) its effort to undermine public education even as the Trump administration worked feverishly to close the agency.

As we do with all stories, the reporters reached out to those who would be featured in the article for comment. And so began a journey that showed both the emphasis we place on giving the subjects of our stories an opportunity to comment, as well as the aggressively unhelpful pushback we’ve faced this year as we’ve sought information and responses to questions.

Megan O’Matz, a reporter based in Wisconsin on ProPublica’s Midwest team, first asked the department’s press office for an interview in mid-August. At the same time, we emailed top administration officials who were making crucial decisions within the agency, including Lindsey Burke, deputy chief of staff for policy and programs, and Meg Kilgannon, director of strategic partnerships.

In response to the outreach to Kilgannon, department spokesperson Madison Biedermann told O’Matz to “Please direct all media inquiries to [email protected].” Reached on her cellphone that day, Biedermann said she was happy to look into the request. We asked for a response within a week.

At that time, the published press phone number for the department appeared, at all hours, to be a black hole, with a recorded message saying it was “temporarily closed.” (It still indicates that.)

Hearing nothing more, O’Matz emailed the press office again Aug. 18. And again Aug. 28 with detailed questions. She left follow-up messages on Biedermann’s cell. And on Burke’s cell, including once on her husband’s cell as ProPublica tried to find a direct way to contact Burke. To ensure fairness and accuracy, it is our long-standing practice to try to reach those who are part of our stories so that they have an opportunity to respond to them. We’d rather get responses before we publish an article than after.

Reached on her cell Aug. 29, Kilgannon said she had no comment and hung up before O’Matz could explain what we planned to publish about her and her work. She did not respond to a subsequent email with those details.

On Sept. 8, still hearing nothing from Burke, O’Matz reached out to the department’s chief of staff, writing: “We have been seeking to talk to the secretary and to Dr. Burke. … Can you help us arrange that?” A week later, ProPublica arranged for a letter to be delivered via FedEx to Burke’s home outlining what our reporting had found so far and to let us know if anything was inaccurate or required additional context. We invited her again to talk with us, to comment or provide any additional information.

Finally, on Sept. 17, Biedermann wrote: “Just heard from an ED (Education Department) colleague that you sent these inquiries in writing to their home address. This is highly inappropriate and unprofessional. You have also reached out to employees on their personal cell phones, emails, and even reached out to employee’s family members. This is disturbing. Do not use an employee’s home addresses or relatives to contact them.” (The emphasis was hers.)

ProPublica replied the following day that it’s common practice for journalists to reach out to people we are writing about. “In fact, it’s our professional obligation,” O’Matz wrote.

Biedermann responded: “Reaching out to individuals about a work matter at their private address is not journalism — it is borderline intimidation. In today’s political climate it is particularly unacceptable. We received your inquiries (via email, phone calls, text messages, both on work and personal email address) and made a conscious decision not to respond, as we have every right to do.”

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” Biedermann wrote.

To be clear, at no time prior to this email did the department tell O’Matz that it had received her inquiries and would not comment. The article ran on Oct. 8, about two months after we first contacted the department. (I would highly encourage you to read it (https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump).)
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reaching-out-reporting-obstacles

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official animus to the public stands out

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US universities slipping in global rankings


Harvard is #3


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Texas A&M banned Plato last week and business ethics this week



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Trump TACOs on Harvard

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UCLA profs get a preliminary injunction against Trump trying to extort UCLA to turn civil rights upside down and institute speech codes

No doubt it will be appealedTrump administration drops the appeal


The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a decision Friday that blocked it from demanding a $1.2 billion settlement from UCLA.


The federal government froze $584 million in research funding to UCLA in late July, alleging that the university allowed antisemitism, affirmative action and “men to participate in women’s sports.” The Trump administration sent a letter to UCLA on Aug. 8 demanding that, in exchange for the restoration of the funds, the university pay a $1 billion fine and $172 million in a claims fund for people impacted by alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://dailybruin.com/2026/02/13/trump-administration-drops-appeal-of-order-blocking-1-2-billion-ucla-settlement

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UT and Texas A&M will suffer generational reputational harm within 5 years if Rs stay in charge

Free speech Czar opening announced at UT-Austin

https://www.higheredjobs.com/region/details.cfm?JobCode=179363335&Title=Assistant%20Dean%20for%20Expressive%20Activi ty%20Support%20and%20Engagement

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fondest regards from the erstwhile University of Texas


Texas Gov. Greg Abbott confirmed Sunday that UT Austin professor Art Markman has been dismissed from his administrative role as senior vice provost for academic affairs because of “ideological differences.”https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/2025/10/21/533834/ut-austin-professor-dismissed-from-administrative-duties-for-ideological-differences/