Resistance - Harvard to Fight Back

Tell that to the accidentally deported dude in a El Salvadorian prison. The executive branch can pick and choose what to do. Look at all the illegally fired folks. Look at all the funding that Congress approved but Trump doesn’t liken so he cut. Look at the emergency declaration to execute a number of brain dead ideas by Trump. This will have lasting impact. The new rule is to break any rule you can.

 

Steve Bannon calls on the Trump administration to "get to the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin in Madison"

 

100%. His admin is an unmitigated disaster this far from my POV.

 

No doubt they want to perpetrate benevolent press. Less than 2k incoming freshman @$60k / year = 120m. They get that much from a handful of legacy kids donations. They get 1-1.5b in donations a year. They could 8X their admissions.

 

Tuition is largely unimportant to them, that is true. Same as most elite schools. The reason that they don't expand is that they wouldn't be able to do it while maintaining the exact same quality level. Major expansions would lead to lower quality students (even if only slightly) and would require hiring a lower quality of faculty or delivering lower quality classes or diminishing research resources (mostly, time and facility space).

 

I wish I had your optimism that the system will hold, but recent events seem to indicate that the country we'll have in 2028 will look a lot different than the one we've had for the past 250 years.

 

You still have faith in the system... how cute

 

Why would any school maximize their enrollment in a competitive university system, where schools look at degree "value," rankings, etc? Dont get me wrong, I'm not some big proponent of the excesses of competition ... but that is how things are. UF could admit 60,000 students if it wanted to ... but there are any number of reasons they arent going to with the incentives in place, and few of them have to do with tax status.

 

DeSantis is doing similar with State Universities and just starting with public school districts. Unk if religious institutions will get audited.

 

Yep. The grim reaper is undefeated.

 

We are likely both older and grew up in an analog world. Students have to adapt. I am of the view that education had a test run during Covid and failed. People lost a few years of quality instruction. Educators need to we learn from those mistakes. Online, videos, etc are all perfectly acceptable mechanisms. In classroom setting is more about collaboration, meeting others, and lab based learning. The physical barriers of dorms, buildings, and sidewalks (oh, Plaza of Americas I mourn) should melt away if done correctly. Rankings are important if you are competing for the top talent and research dollars.

 

Adapt to what exactly?

 

Ooooo the TH resistance fighters. As long as somebody else does your fighting now.

 

Im a bit confused by what you are saying.

On the one hand you say “education had a test run during covid and failed”.

On the other hand you seem to be saying we need more online and video learning. Isn’t that what “failed” during covid? Or at least showed to be less effective for many.

I also have no idea what you are saying with “physical barriers of dorms and buildings and sidewalks” should melt away. Soooooo…. students should be living and learning on the grass, under the stars? That sounds like some trippie hippie shit. But maybe you can explain….