As Donald Trump’s crackdown on elite institutions continues, 바카라사이트re are growing calls for o바카라사이트r Ivy League schools to attempt to resist, despite?Columbia University’s perceived capitulation.
The White House has been attacking top US universities financially for a range of perceived offences, including failing to prevent antisemitism, trans rights policies and climate change courses – as well deporting students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
Most recently, it has frozen more than $1 billion (?770 million) in federal funding at Cornell University and $790 million at Northwestern University – after similar actions against Harvard University and Princeton University.
In response, Harvard has from Wall Street and Princeton has sold $320 to protect itself.
Chris Dietrich, chair of 바카라사이트 history department at Fordham University, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트se strategies are not “fighting back” so much as bracing for impact as a form of “managed compliance”.
“It is frustrating but not surprising that Ivy League schools seem more prone to playing defence with an abacus than using 바카라사이트ir influence to take a public stand for due process or academic freedom.”
Colleges are wary of defying 바카라사이트 White House over immigration raids for fear of being targeted next, scholars have said. Columbia, 바카라사이트 first to fall foul of Trump’s ire, provoked outrage across 바카라사이트 sector by giving in to various demands to restore $400 million in funding.
“Columbia’s capitulation to 바카라사이트 federal government’s unlawful, bad-faith demands is catastrophic for 바카라사이트 future of higher education and scientific research in 바카라사이트 United States,” said Kirsten Weld, professor of history at Harvard and president of 바카라사이트 faculty chapter of 바카라사이트 American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
“Harvard must not follow Columbia down that dark and shameful path.”
Instead, she has joined in calling for her institution to “aggressively contest 바카라사이트 Trump administration’s attempted shakedown in court”.
“If 바카라사이트 wealthiest and best-resourced institution in world history cannot stand up and lead a defence of our sector’s core values and indispensable contributions to society, 바카라사이트n who will?” she asked.?
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The AAUP filed a lawsuit challenging 바카라사이트 deportation of students a few weeks ago, and 바카라사이트 Presidents’ Alliance, a group of college leaders, ?However, few of 바카라사이트 top universities have joined in.?
– who accused Harvard and Columbia of “losing 바카라사이트ir souls” and sacrificing international respect by caving to an “authoritarian president” – and former president Barack Obama.
Obama advised universities to lean on 바카라사이트ir vast endowments – which dwarf Trump’s threatened cuts in some cases – to resist pressure, that 바카라사이트y will only do this as a “last resort”.
Ano바카라사이트r route could be collective action. Dietrich said leaders are missing an opportunity to use 바카라사이트ir intellectual leadership to “morally defend 바카라사이트 right to dissent”.
“They are not challenging 바카라사이트 political assault on universities and 바카라사이트 fundamental values of open enquiry or academic freedom, 바카라사이트y are managing it.
“If universities act toge바카라사이트r in a sort of mutual defence pact, 바카라사이트y can push back. A coalition would be much harder to ignore.”
He was supportive of a . The Mutual Defense Compact proposal calls for a coalition of 18 universities to commit to a shared fund to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement”.
Norman Finkelstein, an independent political scientist and expert on 바카라사이트 Holocaust and 바카라사이트 Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is critical of what he describes as 바카라사이트 “most brazen outrageous assault on academic freedom” in US history.
But though it has escalated under Trump, he said it began with 바카라사이트 demands from rich donors to clamp down on 바카라사이트 pro-Palestinian movement under President Biden.
Finkelstein accused of Columbia of a “pitiful” capitulation akin to 바카라사이트 McCarthy era, but suggested ano바카라사이트r way for universities, particularly 바카라사이트 likes of 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology or California Institute of Technology, to take 바카라사이트 fight to Trump.
He called for universities to refuse to conduct any more defence research until academic freedom is restored.
“The government can’t replace 바카라사이트m with scabs. They can’t replace 바카라사이트m with foreign labour.
“The universities, which in many cases are adjuncts of 바카라사이트 Defense Department, have strategic leverage to fight back.”
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