He says this as if it’s a bad thing. Trump should take a wrecking ball to higher education.The College Fix reports:
‘We must not be neutral’: Wesleyan president slams Trump as ‘threat to higher ed’Wesleyan University President Michael Roth calls Trump a “threat to higher education” and urges schools to avoid being “neutral” this election season in a new op-ed.Many universities have recently embraced “institutional neutrality,” but “this is exactly the wrong time for such a retreat,” Roth states in an op-ed Wednesday.“As one of the most consequential elections in American history approaches, we must do everything we can to help students work on campaigns and facilitate voting,” he states.Roth urges academic leaders to oppose the Trump campaign, stating:
Although academic leaders usually stay neutral about a candidate’s political statements, today’s campaign rhetoric is not politics as usual. The threats to higher education made by former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance are not subtle.Although for decades schools have interacted well with Republican and Democratic representatives, the brazen VP candidate has declared that “universities are the enemy.” The Trump agenda promises to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion departments and to punish those schools who do not live up to a right-wing version of civil rights standards.Trump has promised to close down the Department of Education and fire the accreditors who now certify which schools are eligible for governmental support…We must not be neutral about this.
Roth also urges “institutional leaders” to condemn the “mass deportation the Republican nominees threaten,” as “schools have made a place for Dreamers.”
He further calls on educators to “give up the popular pastime of criticizing the woke and call out instead the overt racism that has rippled through the Trump campaign over the past few months.”
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