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America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. [6 minute video]
CNN via Twitter ^ | December 10, 2023 | Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria

Posted on 12/11/2023 2:47:20 PM PST by grundle

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To: grundle

CNN.


21 posted on 12/11/2023 3:24:03 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: grundle

That ship has launched—universities are totally dependent on government grants—and the government student loan program.

They are political—and hopefully someday they will face the consequences for that decision.


22 posted on 12/11/2023 3:26:04 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: grundle

Remove ALL FEDERAL and FOREIGN FUNDING. See how long any of the freakshows last.


23 posted on 12/11/2023 3:26:55 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: grundle

I was a Professor at University of Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s. They gradually transformed from “Milton Friedman” to the douche Austan Goolsby. Standards have fallen dramatically as leftist ideology dominates.


24 posted on 12/11/2023 3:35:35 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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Guess it was okay when they were attacking whites /Christians / American history/ males but now that a bunch of goons are protesting Jews I suppose it’s time to knock off all this politics


25 posted on 12/11/2023 3:43:43 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: grundle

in other words

admit its a porn industry.


26 posted on 12/11/2023 3:57:04 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: grundle

I was a Professor at University of Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s. They gradually transformed from “Milton Friedman” to the douche Austan Goolsby. Standards have fallen dramatically as leftist ideology dominates.


27 posted on 12/11/2023 4:07:20 PM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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I doubt if there is anyone on the administrative staffs and faculty that has any idea of what their respective universities “core strengths” use to be. And if they did, they probably consider them obsolete, racist, etc.


28 posted on 12/11/2023 4:12:28 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: grundle
Not gonna happen unless funding is pulled or lawsuits happen.

They are rotten to the core and democrap money laundering machines for people like Elizabeth Warren who gets her money from universities, wall st, and big tech censorship.

29 posted on 12/11/2023 4:13:50 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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I Ivy Leagues wall is finally falling :)

I am jumping with joy! I hate them with the intensity of 1000’s suns.


30 posted on 12/11/2023 4:19:37 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: grundle

Is this from a CNN in a foreign country?


31 posted on 12/11/2023 4:21:45 PM PST by Maris Crane
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That would be an interesting articke


32 posted on 12/11/2023 4:22:10 PM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: Dogbert41

Yup...what you said.


33 posted on 12/11/2023 4:32:27 PM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: grundle

But the real money is in politics, not learning and understanding.


34 posted on 12/11/2023 5:01:40 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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He actually said a white man studying presidential history would never get hired in any of the ivy league history departments. And it was a criticism. Pretty shocking coming from this guy.

Freegards


35 posted on 12/11/2023 5:06:17 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: grundle

And Republicans should radically change the tax code so their endowments are heavily taxed.


36 posted on 12/11/2023 5:31:47 PM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: grundle

The Universities are to our corrupt government what the Bamboo Lounge is to the mob in Good Fellas.


37 posted on 12/11/2023 5:40:10 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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Research and learning are diametrically opposed to DEI. Universities simply can’t do both. They simply have to choose one, or the other. It’s too bad their affirmative action DEI leaders will never understand that.


38 posted on 12/11/2023 6:45:45 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
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To: grundle

According to family records, one of my direct ancestors donated 95 bushes of grain for the creation of Harvard University because he wanted better educated Christian preachers. What a mistake!


39 posted on 12/11/2023 6:54:22 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sensesa to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: grundle

Yes, but it’s completely wishful thinking because political indoctrinated has become their core value.

And the incredible irony of Roger Waters’ lyrics:
We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control...


40 posted on 12/11/2023 8:06:57 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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