[ClearCase_guy]

I can’t wrap my head around this sort of failed leadership.

These universities have billions in their endowments. Students across the country dream of going to an Ivy League School. Families are willing to shoulder enormous debts in order to pay $90,000 a year in tuition.

And the college presidents are afraid? They fear the students that have been accepted by the school and who have been attending class in hopes of getting a prestigious degree?

How about this — If you demonstrate, we kick you out. You fail all current classes. You get no degree. No money will be refunded. We can find more students to take your place.

Put the fear on the students.

[KevinB]

They fear the students that have been accepted by the school and who have been attending class in hopes of getting a prestigious degree?

That's not what the article says. The article says that they fear the people with actual brains who are waking up to the fact that these colleges are little more than a con game.

[Lurker]

“I can’t wrap my head around this sort of failed leadership.”

It’s not a failure. This was quite intentional. Lower the standards, quit teaching kids how to think but rather what to think, and you turn “higher education” into a propaganda center turning out hundreds of thousands of angry embittered leftist drones.

That’s always been the goal. It’s textbook Mao. “Long march through the institutions”. And they’ve succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

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[Mouton]

How about this — If you demonstrate, we kick you out. You fail all current classes. You get no degree.

Long ago when I went to college, 67 grad, my school had a policy:
Fall below a 2 GPA semester, probation. Two semesters in a row, gone. Any F regardless of GPA, probation also.

Strict attendance standards, Up to six absences per course per semester.

Jacket and tie required (until 1965 when that was relaxed as admitted women then).

ROTC required for two semesters.

School had a very small endowment, but tuition was minimal...18 per credit hour in 63 and 33 in 67. Costs low since Profs taught the courses and most had a side hustle.

[Jim Noble]

And the college presidents are afraid? They fear the students that have been accepted by the school and who have been attending class in hopes of getting a prestigious degree? How about this — If you demonstrate, we kick you out. You fail all current classes. You get no degree. No money will be refunded. We can find more students to take your place. Put the fear on the students.

Won't work.

The students are selected for high intelligence but also high academic achievement, which usually means conformity to "what THEY want".

The demonstrators aspire to rule the country, and they are simply conforming to what the silver ponytails who control their future expect.