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Prairie Gates

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1. All the universities are going to fold

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:37 PM

Mar 2025

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.

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Columbia complies with Trump demands to regain $400 million in funding [View all] demmiblue Mar 2025 OP

All the universities are going to fold Prairie Gates Mar 2025 #1

Well said! AloeVera Mar 2025 #2

I wouldn't be surprised if you start to see more people sympathize with the Palestinians moving forward. OrlandoDem2 Mar 2025 #3

I got my graduate degree there. I used to be proud of that. Today I'm ashamed. Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #4

Apparently Columbia values $$$ over principle MichMan Mar 2025 #5

That money pays for people's jobs iemanja Mar 2025 #10

"Weren't you just supporting deportations of protestors, their expulsion, and revocation of degrees the other day?" MichMan Mar 2025 #11

No iemanja Mar 2025 #13

Students can be disciplined up to expulsion for various violations of college policy MichMan Mar 2025 #14

Capitulation is the wrong answer to a dictator. Universities are making a big mistake. Evolve Dammit Mar 2025 #6

I imagine for $400 million they have to dance to the tune whether they want to or not, unfortunately EX500rider Mar 2025 #12

Capitulation to authoritarians only results in more demands. TomSlick Mar 2025 #7

Doesn't Columbia have a multi-billion dollar endowment? Retrograde Mar 2025 #8

$14.8 billion MichMan Mar 2025 #9

I shudder to think of what he's gonna try with Yale. CTyankee Mar 2025 #15