To be fair, the Civil Rights case which the Supreme Court decided against Harvard was decided in 2023, and it started in 2013. Trump isn't the one with the reckless behavior here. Harvard openly and actively discriminated against students because of race and ethnic background.
Trump gets the thankless role (in the eyes of the higher education industry) of trying to get Harvard to sort of/kind of comply with the law a bit rather than just going on with their discriminatory behavior. What is he supposed to do? It is a criminal misdemeanor, could start subpoenaing admissions officers and Harvard Admin and arrest the ones who are committing crimes, but it would sure be a lot easier if Harvard just complied with the Supreme Court decision.
When talking about the way Obama used the law to shape how universities would function, you also have to mention how he did the same thing to the US military. That's why sodomy statutes were removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice under Obama.
The problem is that all of the money flowing into the Ivy Leagues from the government neutered the alumni. An increasingly radicalized administration, no longer reliant on the largess of its graduates, indulged themselves in the most insane political and cultural experiments while the alumni stood by powerless to stop the trashing of their alma maters. Bizarre "studies" majors featuring nonsensical, self-referential position papers. DEI hires at the highest levels, not just checking the right race and gender boxes, but the most politically extreme boxes as well. Ever greater administrative staff expansion funded through aggressive "full-tuition" foreign student recruitment.
The alumni watched as their academic prestige was torched through plagiarism scandals, the fudging of published research results, and the allowed infantilization of the student body.
Does a Columbia graduate still hang his diploma where people can see it knowing he/she graduated from what is now ground zero for radical Islamic jihad? Does a Harvard graduate do the same, knowing the SCOTUS found Harvard guilty of Asian discrimination - and instead of fixing it, their school came up with ways to subvert the Court's decision? Maybe after a few strong drinks at the Yale Club they still can convince themselves it all mattered.
Respectfully disagree... Trump should have came out high on tariffs to China as a forcing function; it is too bad our 'businesses' here sold out to them instead of the American People.
China is asshole. Period. Not their folks at the ground level, but our folks have been paid by them for too long. Sorry.
If you read the JD Vance book, Hillbilly Elegy, you'll get an idea of one of the reasons why Trump chose him to be his Vice President. Both understand the significance of bringing manufacturing back to our shores and jobs into socioeconomically impoverished Appalachian like communities, because a powerful country cannot survive multiple generations with a primarily service oriented economy. Tariffs used as leverage, or more accurately, a fulcrum to leverage, bringing manufacturing back to our shores is an effective and powerful strategy to do so and a further deterrence from unfair trade policies that are much more numerous(and hurtful) than simply tariffs.
So thankful that we have an Administration in place that understands that discrimination and racism is multi-directional, not one directional, which seems to have escaped the grasp of Democrats, and that Harvard and other universities will be held to obeying the laws of title 6 and Title nine whether they like it or not. The punishments dealt out are just the tip of the iceberg. I am fortunate to have found responsive staff members on Representative Stefanik's and Representative Foxx's teams to call before Congress the Presidents of universities that were turning a blind eye to anti-semitism, most especially President Michael Schill of Northwestern, who was grilled, and shredded, by Foxx.
Leo Terrell and his team out of DOJ are truly remarkable and very responsive as well and they haven't even released their findings yet and when they do, there's going to be hell to pay for UCLA and many others who haven't been mentioned as often as Columbia and Harvard. Let's not forget that while Leo is investigating 10 universities currently, there will be more to follow, and the Department of Education is investigating 60 different universities. As the investigations conclude, many more universities will be punished severely and not just financially. It is entirely possible that multiple formerly prestigious elite academic institutions will not just lose money and lose tax exempt status - they will have their accreditations pulled. I have been very involved and on the front lines in fighting this anti-semitism and the woke ideology and I rarely if ever received a response from anyone in the previous administration, yet this Administration is boggling my mind and surpassing much of what I had actually expected.
Also, I would be remiss if I did not mention Bill Ackman and others associated with Alums For Campus Fairness, who brilliantly suggested that instead of withdrawing all private personal donations from universities, that it's best to donate $1 so that amount gets published and embarrasses the university by reminding people, because most people are quick to forget when you withdraw your donation.
We warned many institutions and they didn't want to listen - they were laughing then. Well, they're sure as hell not laughing now. As I said to a law school professor at UCLA who said his hands were tied and the administration at the University was throwing up obstacles:"Condescending arrogance is unbecoming of fair-minded educators and fair-minded educators are now in the minority." Most of them still are so condescendingly arrogant they don't believe they'll be punished and they're going to get it shoved up their backsides, deservedly so.
Last but not least, The Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation limit "incidental expenses" to between 10 and 15% on their grants for research and Stanford and Harvard and Yale have used anywhere between triple and quintuple that and that's about to stop. So any far left activists complaining about sick people suffering from the medical research punishments should ask the University where all that extra money went, when the average Nationwide for most universities is only 15%.
Your friend epitomizes the old saying 'the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with.' The existence of 'learning curve effects' shows that the Chinese did not have an intrinsic advantage in manufacturing, apart from a large pool of cheap labor and relatively lax regulation, and that it was US companies like your friend that helped China gain an advantage by shifting their production to China. Thanks a bunch. I've heard that some parts of China have bad air quality due to pollution. Should we get rid of regulations that keep pollution under control? China is run by the CCP, and the CCP will never give up its monopoly on political power. That's all I need to know. I have no interest in promoting democracy in China, or anywhere else, but allowing ourselves to become heavily reliant on China for manufactured goods was geopolitically stupid.
Most colleges up till now discriminated in favor of protected classes--or, should I say, against cis white males--to get the federal dollars. The uni where I worked in graduate ed. got a huge federal grant to help underserved classes like Hispanics. Trouble was, 90% of our grad students worked full time already, so nobody signed up for the subsidized TA jobs. What happened to all that money then? Who knows.
To be fair, the Civil Rights case which the Supreme Court decided against Harvard was decided in 2023, and it started in 2013. Trump isn't the one with the reckless behavior here. Harvard openly and actively discriminated against students because of race and ethnic background.
Trump gets the thankless role (in the eyes of the higher education industry) of trying to get Harvard to sort of/kind of comply with the law a bit rather than just going on with their discriminatory behavior. What is he supposed to do? It is a criminal misdemeanor, could start subpoenaing admissions officers and Harvard Admin and arrest the ones who are committing crimes, but it would sure be a lot easier if Harvard just complied with the Supreme Court decision.
When talking about the way Obama used the law to shape how universities would function, you also have to mention how he did the same thing to the US military. That's why sodomy statutes were removed from the Uniform Code of Military Justice under Obama.
The problem is that all of the money flowing into the Ivy Leagues from the government neutered the alumni. An increasingly radicalized administration, no longer reliant on the largess of its graduates, indulged themselves in the most insane political and cultural experiments while the alumni stood by powerless to stop the trashing of their alma maters. Bizarre "studies" majors featuring nonsensical, self-referential position papers. DEI hires at the highest levels, not just checking the right race and gender boxes, but the most politically extreme boxes as well. Ever greater administrative staff expansion funded through aggressive "full-tuition" foreign student recruitment.
The alumni watched as their academic prestige was torched through plagiarism scandals, the fudging of published research results, and the allowed infantilization of the student body.
Does a Columbia graduate still hang his diploma where people can see it knowing he/she graduated from what is now ground zero for radical Islamic jihad? Does a Harvard graduate do the same, knowing the SCOTUS found Harvard guilty of Asian discrimination - and instead of fixing it, their school came up with ways to subvert the Court's decision? Maybe after a few strong drinks at the Yale Club they still can convince themselves it all mattered.
Let’s just say I don’t exactly brag about having gone to a “Harvard of the Midwest” for undergrad.
If anything, it’s been out-Harvarding Harvard.
Respectfully disagree... Trump should have came out high on tariffs to China as a forcing function; it is too bad our 'businesses' here sold out to them instead of the American People.
China is asshole. Period. Not their folks at the ground level, but our folks have been paid by them for too long. Sorry.
If you read the JD Vance book, Hillbilly Elegy, you'll get an idea of one of the reasons why Trump chose him to be his Vice President. Both understand the significance of bringing manufacturing back to our shores and jobs into socioeconomically impoverished Appalachian like communities, because a powerful country cannot survive multiple generations with a primarily service oriented economy. Tariffs used as leverage, or more accurately, a fulcrum to leverage, bringing manufacturing back to our shores is an effective and powerful strategy to do so and a further deterrence from unfair trade policies that are much more numerous(and hurtful) than simply tariffs.
So thankful that we have an Administration in place that understands that discrimination and racism is multi-directional, not one directional, which seems to have escaped the grasp of Democrats, and that Harvard and other universities will be held to obeying the laws of title 6 and Title nine whether they like it or not. The punishments dealt out are just the tip of the iceberg. I am fortunate to have found responsive staff members on Representative Stefanik's and Representative Foxx's teams to call before Congress the Presidents of universities that were turning a blind eye to anti-semitism, most especially President Michael Schill of Northwestern, who was grilled, and shredded, by Foxx.
Leo Terrell and his team out of DOJ are truly remarkable and very responsive as well and they haven't even released their findings yet and when they do, there's going to be hell to pay for UCLA and many others who haven't been mentioned as often as Columbia and Harvard. Let's not forget that while Leo is investigating 10 universities currently, there will be more to follow, and the Department of Education is investigating 60 different universities. As the investigations conclude, many more universities will be punished severely and not just financially. It is entirely possible that multiple formerly prestigious elite academic institutions will not just lose money and lose tax exempt status - they will have their accreditations pulled. I have been very involved and on the front lines in fighting this anti-semitism and the woke ideology and I rarely if ever received a response from anyone in the previous administration, yet this Administration is boggling my mind and surpassing much of what I had actually expected.
Also, I would be remiss if I did not mention Bill Ackman and others associated with Alums For Campus Fairness, who brilliantly suggested that instead of withdrawing all private personal donations from universities, that it's best to donate $1 so that amount gets published and embarrasses the university by reminding people, because most people are quick to forget when you withdraw your donation.
We warned many institutions and they didn't want to listen - they were laughing then. Well, they're sure as hell not laughing now. As I said to a law school professor at UCLA who said his hands were tied and the administration at the University was throwing up obstacles:"Condescending arrogance is unbecoming of fair-minded educators and fair-minded educators are now in the minority." Most of them still are so condescendingly arrogant they don't believe they'll be punished and they're going to get it shoved up their backsides, deservedly so.
Last but not least, The Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation limit "incidental expenses" to between 10 and 15% on their grants for research and Stanford and Harvard and Yale have used anywhere between triple and quintuple that and that's about to stop. So any far left activists complaining about sick people suffering from the medical research punishments should ask the University where all that extra money went, when the average Nationwide for most universities is only 15%.
Your friend epitomizes the old saying 'the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with.' The existence of 'learning curve effects' shows that the Chinese did not have an intrinsic advantage in manufacturing, apart from a large pool of cheap labor and relatively lax regulation, and that it was US companies like your friend that helped China gain an advantage by shifting their production to China. Thanks a bunch. I've heard that some parts of China have bad air quality due to pollution. Should we get rid of regulations that keep pollution under control? China is run by the CCP, and the CCP will never give up its monopoly on political power. That's all I need to know. I have no interest in promoting democracy in China, or anywhere else, but allowing ourselves to become heavily reliant on China for manufactured goods was geopolitically stupid.
Most colleges up till now discriminated in favor of protected classes--or, should I say, against cis white males--to get the federal dollars. The uni where I worked in graduate ed. got a huge federal grant to help underserved classes like Hispanics. Trouble was, 90% of our grad students worked full time already, so nobody signed up for the subsidized TA jobs. What happened to all that money then? Who knows.
Harvard: Dont trust the experts. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/star-harvard-business-professor-who-studied-honesty-pays/