Columbia U. kowtowing to Trump & announcing mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the administration in order to keep funding.
Columbia announced [...] multi-year suspensions and the temporary revoking of some graduates’ degrees
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Skyrmir @lemmy.world - 9mon
So never sending my kids to Columbia, got it.
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wwb4itcgas @lemm.ee - 9mon
Despite apparently being just the right place for it, Columbia won't be having "Dictatorship 101" courses.
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queermunist she/her - 9mon
I wonder if Trump will even rescind the funding cuts.
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Tatar_Nobility @lemmy.ml - 9mon
For all its often noted defects and problems, the American university—and mine, Columbia, in particular—is still one of the few remaining places in the United States where reflection and study can take place in an almost-utopian fashion.
This is what Edward Said wrote in the 70's. Aged like milk
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Gustephan @lemmy.world - 9mon
Honestly anybody involved in the US university system saw it coming. Academia has been run by a bunch of spineless cowards who will always look the other way if it gets them grant funding, at least for the decade I've spent in and around it. The Colombia thing is bad because it shows future potential students how spineless US universities are.
fossilesque in academia
Columbia U. kowtowing to Trump & announcing mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the administration in order to keep funding.
https://x.com/prem_thakker/status/1900343147130966397
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/4f0f2391-a9fa-4a84-b6ba-fe7fcd4766c2.webp
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/89cbe32e-5c1e-4f76-81d3-181c581bce74.webp
Y'all feeling the Freedom over there, Murica?
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/13/columbia-university-expels-students-revokes-degrees-of-hamilton-hall-protesters-gaza/
Holy crap, they actually did it
So never sending my kids to Columbia, got it.
Despite apparently being just the right place for it, Columbia won't be having "Dictatorship 101" courses.
I wonder if Trump will even rescind the funding cuts.
This is what Edward Said wrote in the 70's. Aged like milk
Honestly anybody involved in the US university system saw it coming. Academia has been run by a bunch of spineless cowards who will always look the other way if it gets them grant funding, at least for the decade I've spent in and around it. The Colombia thing is bad because it shows future potential students how spineless US universities are.