Damn, Columbia already bent the knee. What more does this admin want?
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That's the problem. They bent the knee. You don't bend the knee to fascism. It's never enough.
This can’t be said enough!
All of their parents money and every brown and black person expelled from the country. Why? What did you think they wanted it? Because they’ve been extremely clear and obvious about what they want.
Have you been paying attention?
If you aplease fascists, they just ask for more. Because you already caved once, they'll expect you to again
That's the whole thing with the saying about "just give Poland to Hitler, that way he's happy".
Like, it's up there with "never start a land war in Asia" and "don't invade Russia in winter" on the list of cliche military lessons.
They obviously want to topple a top school to show the others what’s coming if they don’t submit totally and immediately.
Columbia is lost already. It’ll forever be a bitch school, if it continues to exist.
They were supposed to bend over not bend the knee.
They did that, too.
The lengths to which administrators have been willing to go also suggests their actions are not mere capitulation, but rather a strategic alignment with the Trump administration.
On March 5, nine Barnard students were arrested for staging a sit-in to demand the administration reverse the prior expulsions of three student activists. Soon after, Columbia updated its public safety protocols to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, on campus without a judicial warrant in the case of “exigent circumstances.”
Then, on March 8, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent master’s graduate who was a lead negotiator with the Columbia administration during the Gaza solidarity encampment, was detained by ICE.
Columbia never responded to his email pleading the university for protection the day before his detainment.
On March 11, Ranjani Srinivasan, an international graduate student whose visa was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security on the spurious charge of being “involved in activities supporting Hamas,” fled into hiding and eventually to Canada after Columbia withdrew her from her Ph.D. program and the university’s campus security allegedly allowed ICE into her apartment.
Two days later, Columbia allegedly allowed ICE into the dorm room of Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia who was arrested at a pro-Palestine protest.
That same day, 20 more students were expelled, including Grant Miner, the president of the student workers union.
The Trump administration had delivered what Katherine Franke, a Columbia faculty member forced into early retirement for her pro-Palestine views, called a “ransom note.”
It gave the university a week to, among other things, suspend or expel student activists, centralize disciplinary procedures in the Office of the Provost, implement severe restrictions on public assembly, adopt the definition of anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and impose administrative oversight of the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department as well as the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the university’s Tel Aviv program.
Columbia not only acquiesced to all the demands of said letter, but exceeded Trump’s dictates by suspending faculty governance of the Center for Palestine Studies
Cowards & bitches lacking principles & integrity.
EVERYTHING... And even more besides. 🤷♂️ 🤡 🖕 💩
Give them an inch, and they'll disappear people to a concentration camp on foreign soil without charges.
Never bend to a fascist.
They want: open the mouth
Power. Over everything.
But Columbia did LITERALLY EVERYTHING Trump asked them to Do! SURELY that WOULDNT Backfire!
“Appeasement”
I wasn't aware you were on Lemm.ee, BigMacHole! Glad to see you got your name on another instance! :)
I didn't know that the feds accredited universities. When I was in school, the one that mattered for engineering was ABET or somesuch.
Apparently they don’t. The feds recognize the independent agencies that accredit universities
The Department does not accredit individual educational institutions and/or programs and is not directly involved in the institutional or programmatic accrediting process. The Department recognizes only agencies that apply for recognition; many do not. Along with its recognition decision, the Department designates the scope of accrediting activities to which its recognition pertains.
So how he thinks he can force MSCHE to withdraw their accreditation, I don’t know.
I mean so threaten MSCHE with recognition withdrawal if they don't discredit Columbia. It's not like its a far reach for Republicans.
I mean he could threaten that, but that’s gonna piss even more people off. I’m not going to look through the whole list but at the top of the alphabet I spotted Bard, Barnard, Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell…
I don't think that matters when they're so anti higher education
They're not anti-higher education for all, just for liberals and those who are not part of the wealthy class. That's why they jacked the price up around the 1980s. Too many poors were going to school, competing with rich kids for high paying jobs, and cementing class-consciousness pushing for social change. They can't have that!
Raising the cost of tuition meant fewer families were able to attend college without financial aid, which has also been set up to be a lasting financial burden for us plebs. Couple that with better employment opportunities being largely reliant on the level of education obtained, and you have a system designed by the rich, for the rich, to ensure they're the only educated group, able to ascend to the upper echelons of power.
Also, they want smart people with college degrees (and sociopathic tendencies) to work for them and come up with new ways to manipulate/kill people! It's why so many Nazis were incorporated into US projects after WWII, rather than being hanged for the crimes they helped facilitate against humanity.
Edit: I forgot to include the racism part of the price hike, specifically aimed to prevent class mobility for people of color. Racism is just the worst!
That was my first thought too. “So?”
Columbia Journalism School is one of the best in the world, hence the targeting by the fascists. They want to discredit any quality journalism.
It shouldn't have caved.
Shut down the colleges first.
Gosh. Now WHERE have we seen this before?
Capitulate like weak-ass bitches, get treated like bitches.
Unlawful!? Coming from the gestapo government? That's fucking rich!
Where's that "small government" Republican voters always asked for?
Ah. Using reason and logic again, eh? Tch. Yeah it never helps.
Not to side with Trump, but Columbia coward and bent the knee. Fuck em, traitors. This is the chickens coming home to roost.
That's fascism.
Start buying guns and ammo.
Also, lesson to be learned here. Never bend the knee to fascists. It's never enough. It'll never be enough. Just like a bully on the playground. Deal with them the first day of school. Don't let them have power over you. We've already failed at that step and let them get a foothold. So, as mentioned above, buy guns and ammo.
This comment would earn you a suspension or ban on reddit. That's how I know you're right.
Hrh. Govt of no interference in business now interfering in education. What next? Trump declares no anal sex?
He's not brave enough to deprive Putin of his favourite activity like that.
Bold of you to assume he doesn't like it too.
The performance has to go on even the magician running out of rabbits. Desperate distraction for the endless tacos.
Their war on education is out in the open, and their voters are loving it. They're probably wondering why they didn't do this ages ago.
Do they not realize they're not in-charge of accreditation?
Pretty sure that is currently considered an upgrade on the global standing
Cool, make sure "accreditation" no longer means anything. Wonder why they'd want to do that.
I would love to see a national coalition of universities. “If one goes down, we all go down”.
Universities have clout; if they unified against the administration, they would have some serious leverage.
Well, thank goodness that the Democratic representatives are coming together and demanding impeachment. That’s what I expect of our representatives!
The party and the people are generally responding with the same vigour.
No fact checking, or even questioning how true it is that Jewish students were really harassed?
Yes, because that's a smart move that will totally work...