Posted on 04/15/2025 7:22:44 AM PDT by DallasBiff
John S. Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and a three-time Harvard graduate, didn’t shy away from the topic, stating, “From even a casual read of the Trump administration’s bizarre demands, any reasonable person would fully expect Harvard University to articulate the kind of clear and compelling objection they announced on Monday. Had Harvard leadership done otherwise, it would merely be the first of many bows to a chainsaw-wielding authoritarian regime.” He continued, "In fact, it might have been the first step toward Harvard University declining and deforming into something more akin to Trump University. Instead, Harvard now has an opportunity to help lead the rest of higher education to the high road of insisting that human progress is still more about discovery than it will ever be about recovery. The greatness of Harvard and America is ahead of us, not behind us."
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What hypocrites.
I see a diploma from Harvard or any other Poison Ivy League school as a detriment to being hired any place but DC or NYC. I avoid them like the plague.
Who really cares what they think?!?!
Higher Ed?
It is to laugh.
Harvard brand used to be associated with intellect.
Now it’s up there with Fonzie Aaa! T shirts.
Forbes has really collapsed into the “urinalism” sewer over the last 10-15 years. And on top of that a paywall??!? Go figure.
I’m all for Harvard University telling the federal government to butt out of all school affairs, keep their money and just leave Harvard alone.
Frankly, all universities should do the same. Compete for students and private donations on a cost/value basis.
Fine for Harvard. They could well become the Hillsdale of the East—and pass on taxpayer funds completely.
Its an elite club. Like a secret handshake. Every Harvard grad has instant credibility. Utterly undeserved since some of the dumbest most misguided people have that Harvard credential. But, it works.
Will it fade?
Only in a meritocracy which we are far from achieving.
I don’t think it is hypocritical for a champion of big gov’mt like this TWOT to demand/defend gov’mt monies.
Trump with his unerring political instincts will again be on the 80 side of an 80/20 issue.
The fact that Harvard with it’s $53 billion endowment and $60,000/yr tuition needs hard earned taxpayer dollars is a joke in and of itself.
They will find little sympathy outside of the bluest enclaves.
Harvard University finished last for the second year running in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) “College Free Speech Rankings.”The report, released on Thursday, marks the fifth consecutive year in which FIRE has released its rankings. At the bottom along with Harvard are Columbia University and New York University. All three of the schools received “Abysmal” speech climate ratings.
Let Harvard fund itself and its own demise.
Yaaaaas, a brave new world in which all babies are conceived in test tubes, gestated in artificial wombs, and assigned to same-sex or trans couples, throuples or “parenting pods.” Sexual intercourse between males and females will be outlawed as inherently oppressive. You will own nothing, and happiness is too bourgeois to be tolerated.
More places to cut funds. Cool!
Harvard has a 53.2 BILLION endowment. They don’t need taxpayer money!
A bit late for that. However, it's fine if you don't want to play nice with the government on DEI and foreign students citing the First Amendment, then we the people don't have to continue to fund you, QED.
It’s a bizarre demand when Harvard is asked to follow the law and not discriminate against Whites and Asians.
All federal funding should be cut off unconditionally, and not as a way to get them to do something.
Threats to funding of universities or to any schools at any level should not be made. Government funding of any level of education should simply be stopped, eliminated, terminated along with the Department of Education. Government funding of local school districts imposes more costs on those units for programs that they often did not want in the first place. For every “free” dollar of Fed money the schools are required to make changes that cost the local district or university more money than they are receiving “free.” Government money for universities, especially the government guaranteeing student loans causes tuition to rise much faster than inflation. When prospective students have nearly unlimited access to government money as gifts or as loans it floods the market for students and tuitions rise. That is the market. Government grants to universities warp science because government grants for research are payment for results desired buy the government, not real world results. Government aid to schools and students is unrelieved harm.
Harvard has remedial math. They are only an Ivy League school in name.
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