| ▲ | rincebrain a day ago |
| There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back. Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values. |
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| ▲ | toddmorey a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is really well articulated. It's like how a company uses fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to justify a pivot away from some kind of principled stance. |
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| ▲ | Thorrez a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Biden was considering withholding federal funds from schools over their vaccine policies[1], and tried to withhold federal funds from schools based on how they treat transgender students[2], but that was blocked by a judge. Obama did a similar thing regarding transgender students[3]. Things like this are why Hillsdale College rejects all federal funds. So they can do what they want without threat of the government revoking funding[4]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccines-delta... [2] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/12/texas-title-ix-lgbtq... [3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477896804... [4] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/the-co... |
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| ▲ | rincebrain a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, but my argument was not "the federal government has never done this", but that "colleges have usually felt secure that this would not be done to them if they defended student protests", or at least, if we're being cynical, "that they would have an opportunity to walk it back if their calculations were incorrect". | |
| ▲ | Aeolun 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don’t feel like the reasons behind this are the same. Biden/Obama: We want you to accept and protect everyone Trump: I want you to deliberately reject certain races and nationalities, and close all the departments studying stuff I don’t like. | | |
| ▲ | Jensson 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Trump: I want you to deliberately reject certain races Which race are colleges not allowed to accept? Source for this? | | |
| ▲ | kevingadd 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean. See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/defense-depa... for one example where it's particularly blatant. | | |
| ▲ | Jensson 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | > The current administration refers to inclusion of PoC and women as "DEI", so when they talk about ending DEI, that's what they mean. I call bullshit on them wanting to ban women and black people from colleges, that is not what they mean when they say end "DEI", you are crazy. Can you post a single link where they even hinted at wanting to ban black people and women from colleges? That is such an egregious accusation that you need more than just that they took down a page about a black guy. |
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| ▲ | cess11 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Might have been a mistake to let some of them turn into real estate hedge funds. |
