Thanks Obama (Harvard) rule
Thanks Obama (Harvard) rule
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Unfortunately Harvard is one of the few places that can afford to reject federal funding.
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What was he congratulating Harvard for?
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Republicans were like, do these crazy things or we'll cut your funding. Harvard said no. This comes after Columbia mostly acquiesced to similar demands.
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ah, more modern dystopian bullshit, got it
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More like Harvard said: "We get fifty times that much money from elsewhere - go ahead and try me." They also issued a pretty scathing justification, but they really are standing tall on independent funding.
I applaud what they're doing but I fear that this approach isn't viable for the majority of universities.
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Trump "cancelled" DEI in all American Universities by saying federal funds would be cancelled if the programs were not eliminated. Nearly all major universities did it, because they really had no choice.
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It is about time he said something about the new administration.
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I just find it kinda weird to describe masked government agents showing up to drag people away to a prison in another country where they disappear as "stifling academic freedom".
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Maybe brain drain is the best messaging here.
We can import the shitholers and make them work CHEAP on smart people stuff, but it’s like hunting, make too much noise and you don’t get the kill
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He was chuckling next to Trump during his inauguration.
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Trump hadn't fucked up anything yet (in this term) and Obama was being polite.
I have chuckled with people I hate because it made it easier for me to quickly be done with them.
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I would wait a couple of months to see if they bend the knee and suck the dick before singing their praises.
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I miss having our nation represented by a person with strong command of his tongue and pen.
Hear, hear. Well said.
I grew up poor in a poor area of the country. I also moved around a lot. I went to public schools throughout. While there were certainly a few subpar circumstances in the education system, on the whole, I got a good education, one that equipped me well once I got out of my "young adult with a chip on my shoulder" phase.
What astounds me is that it appears that a vast majority of the country did not receive an education that equipped them for adulthood. That we would even need to consider that we have to lower our standards and write at a 4th grade level. To me it's like argumentum ad absurdum.
There was a podcast that I listened to recently, where the islanders mentioned that they knew of the white plantation owners progeny as the dumb and lazy ones - resting on their laurels over generations had made them stupid and ill equipped.
So perhaps this is the circle of life, the meek shall inherit the Earth. All I can think is that the system has failed us, or maybe we have failed ourselves. I dunno.
That’s a very valid point. They shouldn’t be perceived as talking down to the average person, and the bar is quite low with our public education system.