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NY Times: Northwestern’s President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure​

Michael Schill’s difficult tenure included cuts by the Trump administration that forced the university to lay off hundreds of people. He also endured attacks from Republicans in Congress, part of a broader campaign by the party to take American universities to task.

Craig234 said:

NY Times: Northwestern’s President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure​

Michael Schill’s difficult tenure included cuts by the Trump administration that forced the university to lay off hundreds of people. He also endured attacks from Republicans in Congress, part of a broader campaign by the party to take American universities to task.

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Apparently, the University of Texas, the University of Georgia, Auburn, Florida State, and Ole Miss don't have a single radical on campus.

Craig234 said:

NY Times: Northwestern’s President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure​

Michael Schill’s difficult tenure included cuts by the Trump administration that forced the university to lay off hundreds of people. He also endured attacks from Republicans in Congress, part of a broader campaign by the party to take American universities to task.

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I think we should be discussing the big guy and his crime family instead of focusing on convicted felon trump and this whole epstein covfefe.

Trump is coercing academia into accepting his social policies or risk the withdrawal of federal funding.

Otherwise known as extortion.

Rogue Valley said:

Otherwise known as extortion.

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No, it's called a conditional grant, and it happens all the time. A good example is when fedgov threatened to withhold highway money unless states raised their drinking age to 21. The supremes upheld it.

Craig234 said:

NY Times: Northwestern’s President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure​

Michael Schill’s difficult tenure included cuts by the Trump administration that forced the university to lay off hundreds of people. He also endured attacks from Republicans in Congress, part of a broader campaign by the party to take American universities to task.

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...The attacks on Northwestern have been part of a broader campaign by Republicans to take American universities to task, claiming that the schools mistreated Jewish students. Mr. Schill’s resignation is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the leadership of elite institutions that have stemmed, at least in part, from a Republican pressure campaign that started in 2023, in the wake of protests over the war in Gaza.

In a message to Northwestern students, employees and alumni that was issued Thursday, Mr. Schill alluded, but only glancingly, to the troubles of the last two years. “Our community has made significant progress while simultaneously facing extraordinary challenges,” he said. “Together, we have made decisions that strengthened the institution and helped safeguard its future.”

Attacking elite colleges has become central to Mr. Trump’s agenda in his second term. The administration has frozen millions, and even billions, of dollars in federal research funds in order to push schools to adopt its preferred policies. It has broadened the reasons it states for going after schools, and expanded its focus beyond elite private universities to include public institutions like the University of Virginia, whose president, James E. Ryan, resigned earlier this year under pressure from Trump officials....

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Attacking universities....in order to get them to toe the line and do what the Republican President says they should do.

This doesn't make us "MAGA". Not in any way. Is MAGA so anti-education, so opposed to research, it sees trump's actions as "winning"?