I was facetiously quoting Trump. I thought the clown face would convey the sarcasm, but I guess not.
Posted on 03/21/2025 6:05:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
Columbia University agreed on Friday to overhaul its protest policies, security practices and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which has refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funds without major changes.
The agreement, which stunned and dismayed many members of the faculty, could signal a new stage in the administration’s escalating clash with elite colleges and universities. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and dozens of other schools face federal inquiries and fear similar penalties, and college administrators have said Columbia’s response to the White House’s demands may set a dangerous precedent.
This week, the University of Pennsylvania was also explicitly targeted by the Trump administration, which said it would cancel $175 million in federal funding, at least partly because the university had let a transgender woman participate on a women’s swim team.
Columbia, facing the loss of government grants and contracts over what the administration said was a systemic failure to protect students and faculty members “from antisemitic violence and harassment,” opted to yield to many of the administration’s most substantial demands.
The university said it had agreed to hire a new internal security force of 36 “special officers” who will be empowered to remove people from campus or arrest them. The wearing of face masks on campus will also be banned for the purpose of concealing identity during disruptions, with exceptions for religious and health reasons.
Columbia will also adopt a formal definition of antisemitism, something many universities have shied away from even as they, like Columbia, faced pressure to do so amid protests on their campuses over the war in Gaza. Under...
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Cut them off completely, association with hussein barry as a foreign aid with cover is excuseless.
Finally.
In before the GOP TDS folks chime in a about judges.😂
NO Judge has stopped this Man yet. Deal with it.
No reason to trust those marxist scumbags. Go Reagan, semi trust but verify.
Why do any of these overly well endowed universities get even i cent of taxpayer money?
Why do any of these overly well endowed universities get even i cent of taxpayer money?
See post 2—a judge already tried...
but Columbia capitulated so his decision was irrelevant.
“Columbia has agreed to support democracy, oppose obligatory Marxist indoctrination and end its support for anti-American terrorism in exchange for a resumption of federal aid.”
“Wow, I didn’t realize Bogota had gotten so bad!”
“Bogota? I mean Columbia University.”
“Any hope for the District of Columbia?”
Trump could prevent Columbia from admitting foreign students; no more students visas, DHS via INA can keep them out. That would cost Columbia even more.
The corrupt leftist academic institutions are out for power and increase in wealth.
“Take the cash and let the credit go,
nor heed the rumble of a distant drum.”
——The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Trump should add one final provision in order to restore funding.
“You must cease to be a Hate-America/Anti-America organization.”
Checkmate!
I guess we should give Columbia U. credit where credit is due.
Thank you, Columbia, for making a complete fool out of U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian!
“Please, sir, no more winning!”
err, umm, wrong. “Please, sir, may I have some more !!”
-fJRoberts-
“Please, sir, no more winning!”
err, umm, wrong. “Please, sir, may I have some more !!”
-fJRoberts-
I was facetiously quoting Trump. I thought the clown face would convey the sarcasm, but I guess not.
I’ve been getting the impression that it’s ALL of them. :(
Money talks.
More winning!
It would be great if half the faculty (mostly humanities) who wanted to hold out resigned in protest, but we will not get that lucky. They don’t want to lose the sinecure jobs and would otherwise be unemployable
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