Higher Education is Bracing for the Impact of Trump Being Reelected
“Given the stakes, it is time to look more closely at what Trump’s re-election could mean, and to be clear-eyed about the weaknesses a second Trump administration would exploit.”
Why do you suppose people in higher education would be so panicked about another Trump presidency?
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Trump and His Allies Are Preparing to Overhaul Higher Education
What if Donald Trump is re-elected as president? As unpleasant as it may be to contemplate, it’s an increasingly likely possibility that would be a disaster for higher education. Trump leads Biden, according to recent polling. And yet the sector’s response, so far, has been to sleepwalk into the election. It’s time for us to wake up.
For well over a year now, a small army of think-tankers, consultants, congressional aides, and campaign staffers have been at work crafting higher-education policies in anticipation of a Trump restoration. These efforts, if enacted into law, would radically change higher education in this country. Even more worrisome, Republican politicians have recently shown their skill at calling attention to campus problems that resonate strongly with the public. A Trump presidency with a Republican legislative majority could remake higher education as we’ve known it.
Given the stakes, it is time to look more closely at what Trump’s re-election could mean, and to be clear-eyed about the weaknesses a second Trump administration would exploit. Put simply, changes in academic leadership style will be necessary if the sector is to defend itself effectively.
The December 5 congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses offers a preview of what’s to come. When we pull ourselves away from the partisan melee and the fallout, including the resignation of two Ivy League presidents, we can see the outlines of a thus far one-sided battle. The maladroit responses of the presidents provided the necessary pretext for advancing the Republicans’ attempt to punish parts of the academic enterprise they disdain and to redirect university efforts along the lines they champion. But the right’s interest goes well beyond anything discussed by the three university presidents who were grilled by Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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lefty doesnt fear trump
they need him for more fund raising and rating points on their worthless media shows
they only fear violence being used against them
and thats not likely to happen
Remember, speech is violence, canning their sorry asses is violence. Truth is violence. Alternatives to use of their services are violence.
Their lives are about to be living hell.
“As unpleasant as it may be to contemplate…” – unpleasant for whom? Not for the majority of voters who view the current educational system as one that is anti-US, anti-common sense, anti-logic, and one that pushes gender insanity, supports communism, ignores real science in favor of any “science” that allows the elites to control the masses.
We need change and that becomes more evident daily as we see the lack of value many of todays graduated bring to the workforce.
…it’s an increasingly likely possibility that [the election of Donald Trump] would be a disaster for higher education.
Not “covid” or the response thereto.
Not political correctness.
Not “woke” policies.
Not rampant DEI.
Not laughable academic standards.
No, the REAL problem that’s destroying higher ed is the Great Orange Satan.
Please don’t sell me on Trump anymore. I’m going to vote for him, ok?
Trump would do what to the university system?
Crush their student loans, see their faculties driven before him, and hear the lamentations of their crazy Marxist chicks?
The Gateway Pundit now has a Spanish-language spinoff.
Any American teen who wants to optimize their future chances of obtaining food, clothes, shelter
..will learn Spanish.
It’s not a game. There are no do-overs.
It’s not about what is fair or what is not fair.
It just is.
For hundreds of years it was necessary to be able to ride a horse. Today? Not so much.
Take a year or two and become fluent. It’s not that difficult. You start on-line. Five days per week. A couple hours per day.
A year or two from now, you progress to living or going to school in Puerto Rico or south of the border.
I’ve seen it done. It’s not that difficult. (Honestly, there are plenty of mentally retarded people around the world who are bi- and tri-lingual, so you really don’t have any excuse.)
George W. Bush (2001) tried to make Spanish language instruction in his No Child Left Behind – prior to Nine Eleven.
Obama (2008) advised American children to learn Spanish and whatever else you may think of him , his daughter is apparently fluent.
Quit whining.
Life is not kind to those who live in the past.
Grow the fook up.
“Fat, drunk, and unilingual is no way to go through life, son.”
{If you have decent parents, they’ll get you started before your high school graduation. The sooner the better. There are afterschool programs, there are summer immersion programs.}