Recent content by LeoBloom

SACS has always tried to protect academic freedom and faculty being in control of the curriculum. I doubt either of those things will be priorities for this new accreditation body.

With people like DeSantis in favor of this move, it will be a horrible decision for academia. To argue that SACS is woke or ideological is, of course, absurd. Yet those buzzwords work.

So now, the Trump administration is just going to pressure universities to remove their presidents. This is happening at the University of Virginia. Scary times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html

True.

RFK Jr. accusing people of ignoring the science is the perfect encapsulation of the current time in our country. You accuse groups who actually do follow science of not doing their research because they ignore the crackpot research you support. Life through the looking glass.

Excellent point.

Thanks for the replies. I do get the populist slant of bashing the “elites.” I guess the spectacularly cynical nature of it is, well, not shocking or surprising, so obvious. Yet, once again, as we’ve seen countless times, it works. Trump loves to tout how he went Wharton, an elite business...

Clearly, to me, Trump hates these institutions because, in a broad and general sense, their leaders don’t like him. But what is the motivation for other Pubs? Punish the Harvards to do what? I get that they want to create an educational system that raises young MAGA believers, but sanctioning...

Another thing: I guess Vance is especially concerned about places like Liberty University given the one sided voting of people who work there.

Good point.

I suspect Vance and his ilk’s issue with biology at the university level is its emphasis on evolution. Those darn academics discriminate against creationism. Oh, and those darn University scientists actually think vaccines work.

This is the problem Vance and other MAGA have with universities and science- they disprove what they lie about.

These lies are so blatant. Yet so many swallow them whole.

This thread allows me to mention a couple of really good poets I actually know. Tyree Daye is a wonderful poet. He teaches at UNC. He is also such a nice person. Meg Day teaches at NC State. Again, a talented poet and nice person.

Some of the stuff on this thread. Wow.