Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    136·
    12 days ago

    Every major institution across the country should be ignoring Trump administration orders until the Trump administration stops ignoring court orders.

    • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca
      52·
      12 days ago

      We need a list of all the entities who are kissing the ring. I know there’s a number of Law Firms on this list already.

    • j0ester@lemmy.world
      7·
      12 days ago

      I’m sure many institution’s will follow. I know MIT and many others are together about other lawsuits. This will come soon.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        9·
        12 days ago

        Cornell had the attack on them happen at the same time as Harvard. They’re filing a lawsuit and did a similar website redesign as Harvard in the past few days. This implies a coordinated response

    • okgurl@lemmy.world
      51·
      12 days ago

      1000000%

      unfortunately most are already in bed with tripler

      so I doubt we’ll see this as the norm.

  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    223·
    12 days ago

    Why does Harvard need federal funding anyway, just be the organization you want to be, on your own!

    • entwine413@lemm.ee
      291·
      12 days ago

      They don’t need it, but federal grants help fund a bunch of really good research.

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        25·
        12 days ago

        And scholarship programs.

        Cutting federal funding will make it harder for anyone but the wealthy to access higher education.

        • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
          41·
          12 days ago

          My kids already couldn’t afford it. The costs are astronomical for a decent college. That was true before Trump was reelected. My kids are 20, 17 and 15 so this is relevant for me. Fixing college costs shouldn’t mean writing blank checks either.

    • courageousstep@lemm.eeEnglish
      131·
      12 days ago

      Government research money and other grants aside, if the government stops giving FAFSA money to a college, a massive source of the college’s income stream halts, preventing them from paying employees and keeping the lights on, and preventing a vast majority of students from stepping foot on campus.

      That being said, if the college can convince donors to reorganize endowment money in order to tell Trump to go fuck himself, I support that college 💯

    • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
      21·
      12 days ago

      Because science is really fucking expensive and the gov’t providing all that funding has been a fucking goldmine for America.

      Ask yourself: what the fuck is really behind this? Because it has fuck all to do with gov’t spending and revenues. Revenues from scientific funding dwarf expenditures.