That’s fascism.
Start buying guns and ammo.
Also, lesson to be learned here. Never bend the knee to fascists. It’s never enough. It’ll never be enough. Just like a bully on the playground. Deal with them the first day of school. Don’t let them have power over you. We’ve already failed at that step and let them get a foothold. So, as mentioned above, buy guns and ammo.
This comment would earn you a suspension or ban on reddit. That’s how I know you’re right.
Unlawful!? Coming from the gestapo government? That’s fucking rich!
Where’s that “small government” Republican voters always asked for?
Ah. Using reason and logic again, eh? Tch. Yeah it never helps.
But Columbia did LITERALLY EVERYTHING Trump asked them to Do! SURELY that WOULDNT Backfire!
“Appeasement”
I didn’t know that the feds accredited universities. When I was in school, the one that mattered for engineering was ABET or somesuch.
Apparently they don’t. The feds recognize the independent agencies that accredit universities
The Department does not accredit individual educational institutions and/or programs and is not directly involved in the institutional or programmatic accrediting process. The Department recognizes only agencies that apply for recognition; many do not. Along with its recognition decision, the Department designates the scope of accrediting activities to which its recognition pertains.
So how he thinks he can force MSCHE to withdraw their accreditation, I don’t know.
I mean so threaten MSCHE with recognition withdrawal if they don’t discredit Columbia. It’s not like its a far reach for Republicans.
I mean he could threaten that, but that’s gonna piss even more people off. I’m not going to look through the whole list but at the top of the alphabet I spotted Bard, Barnard, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell…
I don’t think that matters when they’re so anti higher education
They’re not anti-higher education for all, just for liberals and those who are not part of the wealthy class. That’s why they jacked the price up around the 1980s. Too many poors were going to school, competing with rich kids for high paying jobs, and cementing class-consciousness pushing for social change. They can’t have that!
Raising the cost of tuition meant fewer families were able to attend college without financial aid, which has also been set up to be a lasting financial burden for us plebs. Couple that with better employment opportunities being largely reliant on the level of education obtained, and you have a system designed by the rich, for the rich, to ensure they’re the only educated group, able to ascend to the upper echelons of power.
Also, they want smart people with college degrees (and sociopathic tendencies) to work for them and come up with new ways to manipulate/kill people! It’s why so many Nazis were incorporated into US projects after WWII, rather than being hanged for the crimes they helped facilitate against humanity.
Edit: I forgot to include the racism part of the price hike, specifically aimed to prevent class mobility for people of color. Racism is just the worst!
They want the kind of higher education that gave legacy admissions and gentleman’s C’s.
And while they are motivated by racism as well as class prejudice, they also hate poor white people gaining class mobility. Actual meritocracy makes the dimwitted offspring of the upper class look as dimwitted as they are. I’m a working-class white guy who went to an elite university on a full scholarship-- the dolts with surnames for first names assumed I was a preppie like them, since I was literate and did well in my classes. Most of them weren’t and didn’t.
After seeing what the privileged classes are like, it’s a miracle I didn’t become a bolshevik.
That was my first thought too. “So?”
Hrh. Govt of no interference in business now interfering in education. What next? Trump declares no anal sex?
He’s not brave enough to deprive Putin of his favourite activity like that.
Bold of you to assume he doesn’t like it too.
Their war on education is out in the open, and their voters are loving it. They’re probably wondering why they didn’t do this ages ago.
Pretty sure that is currently considered an upgrade on the global standing
Not to side with Trump, but Columbia coward and bent the knee. Fuck em, traitors. This is the chickens coming home to roost.
Columbia Journalism School is one of the best in the world, hence the targeting by the fascists. They want to discredit any quality journalism.
It shouldn’t have caved.
No fact checking, or even questioning how true it is that Jewish students were really harassed?
Shut down the colleges first.
Gosh. Now WHERE have we seen this before?
I would love to see a national coalition of universities. “If one goes down, we all go down”.
Universities have clout; if they unified against the administration, they would have some serious leverage.
Well, thank goodness that the Democratic representatives are coming together and demanding impeachment. That’s what I expect of our representatives!
The party and the people are generally responding with the same vigour.
Do they not realize they’re not in-charge of accreditation?
The performance has to go on even the magician running out of rabbits. Desperate distraction for the endless tacos.
