Leaders at Elite Schools Form ‘Private Collective’ to Resist the Trump Admin
“The group comprises figures at the highest levels, including individual trustees and presidents.”
Remember when the left insisted that the ‘Deep State’ doesn’t exist? How does this help with that argument?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration
Leaders of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have assembled a private collective to counter the Trump administration’s attacks on research funding and academic independence across higher education, according to people familiar with the effort.
The informal group currently includes about 10 schools, including Ivies and leading private research universities, mostly in blue states. Strategy discussions gained momentum after the administration’s recent list of demands for sweeping cultural change at Harvard, viewed by many universities as an assault on independence.
The collective, as some are calling it, represents a separate, quiet and potentially more potent effort than recent public resolutions from university-aligned groups.
The group comprises figures at the highest levels, including individual trustees and presidents. Maintaining close contact, they have discussed red lines they won’t cross in negotiations and have gamed out how to respond to different demands presented by the Trump administration, which has frozen or canceled billions in research funding at schools it says haven’t effectively combated antisemitism on their campuses.
The group’s aim is to avoid the fate of some top law firms, where one deal led to others following suit. The universities want to make sure other schools don’t go so far as to strike deals that create a worrisome precedent that others would be under pressure to follow, say the people familiar with the effort.
The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front, according to a source familiar with the government task force. Within the past two months the task force warned leadership at at least one school not to cooperate with other schools to defend against the task force demands, said one person familiar with the warning.
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trumps gold card ..or get the f out
They are jealous of European Universities where persecuting Jews is a centuries-old tradition.
and an art form to some.
Stop negotiating. State what you want specifically. Stop the money now. Wait for full compliance.
Don’t wait. There are others than can do similar research.
It’s not the universities it’s the people at the universities and their associated hospitals so no others can’t easily do it in many cases.
Are they using Signal?
Can’t wait for that membership list to get leaked.
“Here’s your sign,” guys.
Yes, it would be so difficult to detect who they were. One would have to look no further than an org chart at any major university to have a good idea of who most of the major players at that institution where….
Conspiracy to violate civil rights….
I am sure Cornell is a charter member but I suspect Dartmouth has opted out.
Why, when did Dartmouth suddenly become virtuous at all? Built on a campus that was funded (probably with public money) to be an Indian school, then amazingly it became something else.
I reckon the “resistance” will cease when the federal money spigot is completely turned off
Is this legal? It certainly isn’t the behavior of people who should be eligible to receive federal funding.
Identify the schools, add a condition that such collusion against the government is obviously inconsistent with the cooperative spirit in which grants are awarded, and formally cancel the grants.
The faculty can move to other schools that will benefit instead. It was a good run for the Ivy League football conference, but pretty much all good things come to an end.
I remember that collusion on undergraduate admissions among the Ivies was illegal. Is this better?