They are led by Quisling administrators and governed by comfortable idealists. The only sustainable revolutionary element (adjuncts and grad students) are bought off year by year, and have mostly accepted management paternalism rather than actual labor struggle, which was defeated through concerted intervention by union breaking law firms and vicious admins.

The fact that Trump managed to have a vice provost installed over the Center for Palestinian Studies at the institution where Edward Said spent his career is telling. It's a shocking abrogation of the basic principles of academic freedom, but it's where we are now.

It's absolutely dismaying from many perspectives.

Hillsdale told the Feds to shove it back in the late 70's

Hillsdale refused to submit Title IX compliance data because they said since they received no federal funding of any kind they weren't required to do so. The Federal government didn't back down and said in that case, no student attending could receive any Federal student aid, grants or loans. Hillsdale told them they would fund it themselves, which has continued to this day.

And I don't mean faculty. Georgetown had to lay off 2000 staff after their AID grants ended with the abolition of AID.

Weren't you just supporting deportations of protestors, their expulsion, and revocation of degrees the other day? That is directly connected to this. The protests are the origin of Columbia's problems. You refused to acknowledge the larger picture when I pointed it out to you. This is authoritarianism in action, and Columbia had little power to resist it. The deal also cedes control over one of their academic departments--which includes Middle-Eastern Studies. The Trump administration doesn't want free thought or speech, and Israel's supporters agree with them. In fact, a group is busily assembling the names of protestors to deport. You can't agree with that without understanding that this is the other part of it.

Yes, when they damage school property, occupy buildings, take employees hostage or terrorize Jewish students.

Don't you?

No more than I justify this aspect of fascism. This is all part of the same fascist action by Trump.

I explained my views to you at great length, and you continue to refuse to understand them, acknowledge the wider issue, or the implications of your own position. Your pretense of crimes is a ruse. The students are not currently facing charges of any crimes, and you have no evidence those particular students ever were. The penalties were issued months after the events.

Nor are those students charged with terrorizing Jewish students. That is your own invention. Khalil is charged with no crime. The grounds for his deportation is disagreeing with US foreign policy, what should be free speech. You made clear that speech you disagree with is not free but should be considered illegal.

By your supposed stand against civil disobedience, civil rights protestors should have faced the same consequences. The only difference is the content of their speech, another point that exposes your true objection to the free Palestine protestors.

Crimes have nothing to do with it. It isn't necessary that charges be filed and convictions occur. Just like I could be fired at work for sexual harassment, or racial comments without charges being filed.

If you are here on a student visa, getting expelled would certainly be grounds for revocation of the visa and likely deportation. There have been numerous instances of all the violations I mentioned at various colleges; isn't specific to just one student.

No one would have any issues at all with someone associated with a white supremacy group who was intimidating black students by burning a cross, or displaying a noose being expelled, would they? Why should Jewish students, who are subjected to anti semitic chants and glorification of Hamas terrorism, not be given the same respect?

Someone marching and hold a Free Palestine sign is free speech. Occupying buildings, vandalism and hate speech is a completely different story. All those things and more have occurred at different colleges in the last year. Frankly, they should have been prosecuted criminally as well, but Columbia and other colleges weren't willing to press charges. Some supporters of the Weather Underground characterized planting bombs in Government buildings as free speech, but that doesn't make it so.

I doubt their budget can take a almost 1/2 a billion dollar hit.

Columbia will come to rue this decision.

Or am I confusing them with Harvard?