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1 posted on 02/06/2025 7:58:44 AM PST by MtnClimber
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Too many universities have decided that their highest goal is training the next generation of communists to attack our country.


2 posted on 02/06/2025 7:59:02 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Easier still. Take the federal government completely out of the school loan business.
3 posted on 02/06/2025 8:04:10 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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He talked about this during the campaign. He was going to change the way they were accredited so that current schools would lose their accreditation if they didn’t change. I’m sure this is still an issue on his plate but it might not be as high of a priority as the current ones he’s working on.


5 posted on 02/06/2025 8:12:52 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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Where universities really cost us is not as much in cash outlays but in the way they abet regulatory racketeering.


6 posted on 02/06/2025 8:13:22 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Lose funding?

Hell, lose the land.

Most of the big universities - University of California for example - are Land Grant universities. They owe the ground they sit on to the Federal government.

They used to have to incorporate ROTC as a condition of holding the land. The beginning of the end of that started in ‘61 with the screaming children of Berkeley throwing that off, even when there wasn’t a nasty war to go to. Then it spread.

Now they are openly hostile to the Americans ourselves. They give preference to “first generation” applicants and anyone who isn’t White in general. A lawsuit on that was filed yet again just yesterday. They ignored the SCOTUS ruling on AA.

So take the dirt back. Turn it into barracks. If Nero Newsom and Burnout Bass want to keep turning out Bolshevik Cadres, let them build up new camps out in the sticks...like Indio.


7 posted on 02/06/2025 8:13:48 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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We can chip away, but as long as the schools are flooded with unprepared and only marginally able students, it’ll continue to be a fraudulent business.


9 posted on 02/06/2025 8:16:34 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Much needed.


11 posted on 02/06/2025 8:17:36 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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The point of these proposals isn’t to punish universities but to improve quality and reduce costs.


eyes on the ball, MAGA


15 posted on 02/06/2025 8:24:34 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Other than the service academies like West Point, the Federal government should have zero involvement in higher education. Except for schools for the children of military parents, the Federal government should not be involved with K-12 education.


19 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:34 AM PST by Wallace T.
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End the mandate that all elective courses must be liberal woke classes. Usually the options are all bad.


20 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:45 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Ban college sports! Make the kids study! Now watch the flames!!!


21 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:45 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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It’s simple. Defund. Why are any federal government funds needed at all? They can be anything they want. Teach whatever they want. On their own dime.

Not a penny. No matter how Trumpy or conservative or Christian they may be.


26 posted on 02/06/2025 8:38:42 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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While I was teaching, Shell Oil was giving the College of Business a grant for entrepreneurial programs. Shell found out that the “administration fee” was 50% of the grant total. They told the university to reduce this to 25%, which still seems generous to me, and the university said No!. Shell threatened to withhold the grant money and still the university wouldn’t budge. Shell withdrew the grant.

How stupid can you be? They lost about $120,000 in grant money trying to argue it takes $60,000 to track the money. Bullcrap! Ten minutes to write some debit/credit entries and your done. Totally bureaucratic stupidity!


27 posted on 02/06/2025 8:38:57 AM PST by econjack
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Don't care if they reform. But they should receive no government funding.

Problem solved.

28 posted on 02/06/2025 8:47:53 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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Let's see how long the Ivy League schools last once the Feds pull the plug on funding. Are the big New York City-based hedge funds willing to take up the slack?
29 posted on 02/06/2025 8:59:03 AM PST by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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"...the administration could demand internal admissions data, such as students’ SAT scores, GPAs, and class ranks..."

WTH? What this writer wants is big government.

Colleges only ask for SAT scores and class ranks if you apply as a FRESHMAN.

Why? Bragging rights. The average SAT score of a college's FRESHMAN class counts toward its ranking.

Most colleges don't even ask for an SAT score if you TRANSFER from another college, such as a community college.

Many people go to community college first and then transfer to a university.

30 posted on 02/06/2025 10:39:20 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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A fourth general goal to shape the universities into a more American posture: rid them of Chinese influence and infestation.


32 posted on 02/06/2025 10:56:55 AM PST by Migraine
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bump for later


35 posted on 02/06/2025 4:51:30 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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Simple. No federal loans.

If you want to go to college, go to State U.

Or even better, go to your local community college and learn a trade.

36 posted on 02/06/2025 4:53:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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