This may be an instance where having a conservative chancellor helps us. Hopefully it will be harder to target the university being run by a good-looking blonde male who famously marched to the flagpole last spring and restored old glory to her rightful place while authorizing a crackdown on the unlawful encampments.Universities Scramble to Avoid Being Trump’s Next Target
Amid DEI backlash and funding threats, universities nationwide cancel events, rescind grad school offers
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“Ohio University suspended next month’s Black alumni reunion. The University of Massachusetts revoked admission offers to biomedical graduate students. And new hiring freezes are stalling universities nationwide, from Stanford to Cornell and Harvard.
After initial cosmetic steps like renaming DEI offices and scrubbing website language, schools now are making deeper, tangible changes in response to government spending cuts and President Trump’s campaign against elite universities. Schools are nixing events and rejecting previously accepted graduate students as federal funding hangs in the balance and anything perceived as “woke” becomes a no-go.
… The Justice Department recently said a task force will visit 10 universities, including Northwestern, Harvard and UCLA, to “bring the full force of the federal government to bear” on its bid to eradicate campus antisemitism. Meanwhile, the Education Department sent similar warning letters to 60 universities [including UNC]. …”
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rodoheel
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The plan to Make America Hungary continues apace. I really hope most of the universities will stand up to this and call it the bullying/protection racket that it clearly is. The Trump admin will continue to take as much as they can in terms of academic freedom, curriculum control, etc until someone stands up to stop it.Universities Scramble to Avoid Being Trump’s Next Target
Amid DEI backlash and funding threats, universities nationwide cancel events, rescind grad school offers
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“Ohio University suspended next month’s Black alumni reunion. The University of Massachusetts revoked admission offers to biomedical graduate students. And new hiring freezes are stalling universities nationwide, from Stanford to Cornell and Harvard.
After initial cosmetic steps like renaming DEI offices and scrubbing website language, schools now are making deeper, tangible changes in response to government spending cuts and President Trump’s campaign against elite universities. Schools are nixing events and rejecting previously accepted graduate students as federal funding hangs in the balance and anything perceived as “woke” becomes a no-go.
… The Justice Department recently said a task force will visit 10 universities, including Northwestern, Harvard and UCLA, to “bring the full force of the federal government to bear” on its bid to eradicate campus antisemitism. Meanwhile, the Education Department sent similar warning letters to 60 universities [including UNC]. …”
My concern is that Lee Roberts will quickly bend the knee at UNC to whatever the Trump admin might demand. Many university administrators are going to justify obedience on grounds of self-preservation but it won't take long for them to regret it.
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We should not be a Woke target under Art Popes friend Lee roberts
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LOL no it won't. Having a conservative chancellor simply means we will bend the knee to whatever Trump demands (and the general assembly will likely echo those demands), whether it's eliminating academic programs or banning Muslim students or whatever.
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This is certainly possible
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Every undocumented person should simple leave ( I know it's not that simple) and show the maga cult the full force of the FO part of FAFO.
Right now the cult sees this as reality TV, their favorite, and they are not feeling the full impact.
They need to feel the full impact.
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Yea, he's not a white nationalist...
I think the concern for the next four years is maintaining funding (research and otherwise). Our survival as an elite academic institution is at stake. Of course, other elite universities are having the same issues that we are, but with a Pope boy at the helm we might be a lesser target now. We can survive cracking down on protests and getting rid of DEI for four years. We can't survive having our funding gutted because we are perceived as "woke".
Also, the school of public discourse (or whatever it is called) that opened recently might help us as well. The conservatives seem to really like that thing.
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A reason why old laws should be removed from the books.
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Another Upside-Down Day of Trump Diplomacy
The president threatened allies with an invasion and hit them with tariffs. For Putin, he had only praise.GIFT LINK
—> Another Upside-Down Day of Trump Diplomacy“… “We don’t need anything that they got. We [buy Canadian goods] because we want to be helpful, but it comes a point when you just can’t do that. You have to run your own country,” Trump said today. “And to be honest with you, Canada only works as a state.”
Trump delivered that ominous observation in his first meeting of his second term with Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general.
… But Trump further poked at NATO by suggesting that he also has his eye on another piece of land—Greenland, a territory of Denmark—and hinting that he may even send troops there.
“We really need it for national security. I think that’s why NATO might have to get involved in a way, because we really need Greenland for national security,” Trump said.
“You know, we have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and we have quite a few soldiers, and maybe you’ll see more and more soldiers.”
… Even as Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff traveled to the Kremlin to see if Russia would agree to the 30-day cease-fire proposal developed by the U.S. and Ukraine, the president declined to say today that he would push Putin to take the deal or to make any concessions.
“I don’t want to talk about leverage, because right now, we’re talking to them, and [the talks] were pretty positive,” Trump said.
“I hope Russia is going to make the deal too, and I think once that deal happens … I don’t think they’re going back to shooting again. I think that leads to peace.”
Moments later, Trump went on to declare that he “got along very well with President Putin.” This time, Rutte didn’t laugh.”
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Dude this isn't just about "cracking down on protests and getting rid of DEI." What do you think is going to happen if the Trump admin calls and tells us to disband the Muslim Students Association and expel its members from the university, and that we'll lose funding if not? Or if they tell us to disband the AFAM department, with the same threat? Or if they tell us to close the law school because some of its professors have been critical of the legality of Trump admin actions?
That is the kind of stuff that is coming. The Trump admin just demanded that Columbia put a supposedly "deviant" academic department under government control for a period of five years. The Trump admin wants to control university curriculum and silence opposing voices - both students and faculty. They want to torch academic freedom. That is the kind of stuff I am worried Roberts is not going to stand up for. The concern isn't that they will target UNC because they see it as a bastion of "woke" - the problem is that they will see a potentially compliant administration as the reason to push the envelope farther here so they can point to it as an example when other schools resist.
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And this is taken exactly from the Orban handbook in how he took over Hungary. Go after "liberal" universities and gradually take them over from the inside and outside, remove tenure and fire anyone who disagrees with you or criticizes you, ban all student protests of any kind, threaten to withhold funding if universities don't do exactly what you want, rewrite their curriculum and remove gender studies, women's studies, or anything that might be a threat to your power base and/or supports liberalism, diversity, and tolerance at your university, and make sure that trustees and school administrators are on your side. In Hungary they even went after private universities and gained control of them as well.
American Conservatives are absolutely convinced that universities and colleges are one of the hearts and wellsprings of modern liberalism, so if you can remove and destroy liberalism there you can literally destroy American liberalism and progressivism generally. And that's what this is ultimately about - the permanent destruction of American liberalism via in part a government-led Republican takeover of universities. And they're well on their way to doing it, imo.
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It's ironic that "bending a knee" means respect to the point of groveling, but not during the national anthem.
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LOL at her invocation of "anyone with a basic understanding of the law," and then a few words later, an obvious mistake.
There's no such thing as a "low level district court judge." There are only district court judges. Their orders are every bit as binding as a "high level" appeals court.
It's hard to say whether this is more bluffing or if they are going to follow through with this threat. Needless to say, if the president doesn't reverse course in the face of the injunction, rule of law is done. I would expect the market to crash more than it is doing already.
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Leavitt is an idiot mouthpiece for the Idiot and Liar in Chief. There is no "one ring to rule them all" EO to usurp the US Constitution.
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LOL. She apparently failed her high school civics class.
Duke Mu
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Correct. The Federal Courts interpret the Rule of Law. Not the President.
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Well, this is quite a simplification. First, the courts interpret the law, not the rule of law. Second, the president also interprets the law, and on certain issues, that interpretation is subject to so much deference that it's functionally as if the discretion is unchecked.
What's supposed to happen, and what has happened for 225 years, is that the executive branch yields to the authoritative rulings of the judicial branch. It remains to be seen if that continues to be the case.
Bullshit Barbie back at it.