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Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
« on: December 09, 2024, 06:22:39 am »
Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
 
University leaders are bracing for an onslaught of aggressive legislation and regulations amid growing hostility from an ascendant Republican Party that depends less and less on college-educated voters.

For years, conservatives have seen colleges and universities as unwelcoming and disdainful of their values. Tensions between Republicans and higher education have been rising over questions of free speech, the cost of college, diversity, race and more.
 
Now that rift has become a rupture.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many colleges are preparing for threats to research funding, endowments, diversity efforts, student financial aid, visas for foreign students and more.

“I think it’s an extremely worrisome time for universities, extremely so,” said L. Rafael Reif, the president emeritus of MIT.

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Re: Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2024, 06:40:13 am »
How many staff are conservative?
Just how much balance and discussion of differing viewpoints actually takes place in those bastions of 'higher education'?
I think there are quite a few college educated Republicans, but I think you will find them in fields where there is no denying reality. (STEM)
Other fields can ignore all or part of reality, and even get away with it for a while, but in these, reality rears its unforgiving head with amazing regularity.
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