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wrecking universities without any clear plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...smid=url-share
or you could amplify that, actually say what you're trying to say
wrecking universities without any clear plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...smid=url-share
They're like any other business...COMPETE, or PERISH.
The Dept of Ed helps:
- 26 million children from poor families
- 7.5M children w/disabilities- 5M English language learners
- 9M students go to college or trade school
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"no statistics? no problem!"
The NCES, among other things, tracks how well school children read
I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.
"people will have more babies if we take away opportunities for higher education"
https://www.heritage.org/education/r...ied-birth-ratereducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families.
Highest cost per pupil.
Last place in the world.
Done is didPERIOD
Looks like Trump is using antisemitism and terrorism as levers to take over Columbia University
I think there are like 60 other colleges and universities on Trumplandia's current hit list
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-...5cbda790846324The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of antisemitism.
iirc, Columbia fired their president, sicced the cops on their own students and student groups, surveilled and disciplined them after the protests, and severely curtailed on campus protesting
I guess they didn't grovel hard enough
Trump basically wants Columbia U to agree to receivership and give it control of curriculum without any guarantee that it'll get back the $400M that is being withheld, or control of the university
Trump is threatening to withhold $175M to Penn, his alma mater, because it had one trans athlete four years ago
Penn has zero trans athletes now
gutting health sciences research
Experts predict the face of university research could be permanently changed, affecting work on treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, among other conditions, along with studies on the underpinnings of disease.https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/uni...cuts-nih-trump
- "There are no other revenue sources that could cover those costs," said Jonathan Teyan, CEO of the Associated Medical Schools of New York. The National Ins utes of Health "is the single-largest funder of science in the nation and you can't just sort of shift costs from other areas to cover this."
State of play: The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School rescinded provisional offers to dozens of biomedical Ph.D. students this month, "to ensure that our current students' progress is not disrupted" amid funding uncertainties, a spokesperson told Axios.
- Johns Hopkins University last week moved to eliminate more than 2,200 staff positions, including 247 in the U.S., following the termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding, primarily to its school of public health and a global health affiliate.
- The termination of more than 400 NIH grants to Columbia University over its handling of Gaza protests will directly impact Alzheimer's and cancer research, Notus reported. It also likely tanked a landmark 30-year-diabetes prevention study, Stat reported.
- Elsewhere, Stanford announced a hiring freeze tied to NIH cuts, Baylor's College of Medicine said it will scale back expansion plansand trim its incoming graduate school class while Emory's public health school warned of "potentially radical adjustments."
the correspondence ratio between the Trump administration and corruption approaches one
It’s another corrupt quid pro quo like the one behind Trump’s 'perfect phone call' to Zelenskyy. Here, Columbia only gets federal funding if it agrees to violate the cons utional rights of both faculty and students on Trump's behalf.
Calabresi is a former FedSoc president, Eugene Volokh is nobody's lib
Trumplandia is using le VI -- illegally --to chill speech
But it's naive for law profs to ask Trump to follow the law
...the First Amendment of course doesn’t protect antisemitic violence, true threats of violence, or certain kinds of speech that may properly be labeled “harassment.” le VI rightly requires universities to protect their students and other community members from such behavior. But the lines between legally unprotected harassment on the one hand and protected speech on the other are notoriously difficult to draw and are often fact-specific. In part because of that, any sanctions imposed on universities for le VI violations must follow that statute’s well-established procedural rules, which help make clear what speech is sanctionable and what speech is cons utionally protected.
Yet the administration’s March 7 cancellation of $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University did not adhere to such procedural safeguards. Neither did its March 13 ultimatum stipulating that Columbia make numerous changes to its academic policies—including the demand that, within one week, it “provide a full plan” to place an entire “department under academic receivership for a minimum of five years”—as “a precondition for formal negotiations regarding Columbia University’s continued financial relationship with the United States government.”
Under le VI, the government may not cut off funds until it has
- conducted a program-by-program evaluation of the alleged violations;
- provided recipients with notice and “an opportunity for hearing”;
- limited any funding cutoff “to the particular program, or part thereof, in which…noncompliance has been…found”; and
- submitted a report explaining its actions to the relevant committees in Congress at least thirty days before any funds can be stopped.
These requirements aim to ensure that any withdrawal of funds is based on genuine misbehavior on the university’s part—on illegal toleration of discriminatory conduct, not just on allowance of First Amendment–protected expression. The requirements aim to make clear to recipients of federal funds just what behavior can form the basis for sanctions. And each of the requirements aims to make sure that the sanction fits the offense.
Yet here the sanction was imposed without any agency or court finding that Columbia violated le VI in its response to antisemitic harassment or discrimination. Even to the extent that some protesters’ behavior amounted to illegal harassment of Jewish students, no agency and no court has concluded that Columbia illegally failed to reasonably respond to such discriminatory behavior—much less failed to act at a level justifying withdrawal of nearly half a billion dollars in funds. The government’s action therefore risks deterring and suppressing cons utionally protected speech—not just illegal discriminatory conduct.
And this danger extends beyond universities. The safeguards and limits that the administration has ignored are designed to protect all recipients of federal funding from unwarranted or excessive sanctions. They protect recipients of federal funding across the ideological spectrum, including K-12 schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and business and agricultural initiatives. The administration’s failure to honor the le VI safeguards creates a dangerous precedent for every recipient of federal financial assistance.
Steven G. Calabresi
Clayton J. and Henry R. Barber Professor of Law, Northwestern Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School
David Cole
Hon. George J. Mitc Professor in Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
Michael C. Dorf
Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Richard Epstein
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Owen Fiss
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale Law School
Aziz Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Pamela Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
Randall Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Genevieve Lakier
Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School
Michael McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Michael Paulsen
Distinguished University Chair and Professor, St. Thomas Law School
Robert Post
Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
David Rabban
Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas Law School
Geoffrey R. Stone
Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Nadine Strossen
John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita, New York Law School
Eugene Volokh
Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow, Hoover Ins ution, Stanford University
Keith Whittington
David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Trumpies don't believe disabled kids deserve an education
https://bsky.app/profile/nikkimcr.bs.../3lktmfsv77a2aJessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.
Greg: Because we're against it.
The states will handle it just fine.
Dept of Education grift is over
Gutfeld got you outraged?
You never knew anything about the DoE.
Hogwash.
Texas has been ing it up for decades already
It doesn't help that you're trying to turn the damn thing every day that ends in (y).
None of these ivy league schools should get a dime of fed aid.
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