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DHS trying to muscle Harvard now, just out and out weaponization of government
DHS trying to muscle Harvard now, just out and out weaponization of government
Their foreign students are breaking the law. Just because Biden let them get away with it has no bearing on Trump.DHS trying to muscle Harvard now, just out and out weaponization of government
Kick their violent asses out of this country.
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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...smid=url-shareThe 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.”
Last edited by Winehole23; 04-19-2025 at 12:20 PM.
RIF hits the Air Force Academy
https://gazette.com/military/propose...c54892af4.htmlThe 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 sop res 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.
Taking the educate out of education
https://gazette.com/military/propose...c54892af4.htmlThe 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.”
Trump's stop work orders can hit the bricks, Northwestern University will self-fund
https://wgntv.com/evanston/northwest...ration-freeze/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 earlier this month that the Trump administration planned to freeze $790 million 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 to the Northwestern community. “This support is intended to keep these projects going until we have a better understanding of the funding landscape.’
Bully, bully for Northwestern University!
Harvard sues Trumplandia
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...283718.1.0.pdf
sop to Silicon Valley techlords
Trumplandia aiming at college (and med school) accreditation
sharpening its eyes on the illegal political ideology (hitherto cons utionally protected political speech)
commonly referred to as DEI and diversity
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
and with this one Trumplandia seeks to dismantle the 1964 Civil Rights Act
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...d-meritocracy/
"I'm President...and their not."
is that bad?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-yOn 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.newsweek.com/scientists-...survey-2052067
The bestest of this campaign remains finding out the millions and billions these upper crust ins utions 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 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 in' line.........cept the old man.
Trump did that.
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
https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-c...lass-educationWhile 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, 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.
Trumplandia's highly-contrived and aggressively pretextual deployment of anti-antisemitism
apparently also includes anti-anti-antisemitism
https://forward.com/fast-forward/716...ss-jews-jesus/
Last edited by Winehole23; 04-29-2025 at 08:42 PM.
(eyebrows have been raised about the polls directed to Jewish individuals)
I thought it was A-OK to go overboard when rooting out antisemitism? What happened?
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.
Trump's war on education is a war on special ed and reasonable accommodations for kids with disabilities
https://www.propublica.org/article/d...bilities-trumpTime 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.
Trump ordering US agencies to terminate signed, compe ive grants has no valid legal basis
It's also a grotesque attack on the rule of law
Trump cancelling visa interviews will 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 ing boneheaded.
trade balance is much in our favor wrt education -- or has been up til now
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