ACLU Urging Brown University to Reject Trump Deal
“the group accused the administration of weaponizing federal funding to force universities into compliance and undermine higher education”
Brown may not have much of a choice here. They have a major deficit problem right now.
Campus Reform reports:
ACLU urges Brown University to reject and forcefully resist Trump deal
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is urging Brown University to reject President Donald Trump’s new higher education plan, warning that signing it would amount to endorsing political censorship and government overreach on campus.
In a letter sent Friday to Brown President Christina Paxson, the ACLU of Rhode Island condemned the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a federal initiative offering universities preferential access to funding if they agree to a series of sweeping reforms.
The Trump administration’s compact was unveiled last week, outlining ten requirements that institutions must meet to qualify for the program. The plan calls for eliminating race and sex preferences in admissions and hiring, reinstating standardized testing, capping international student enrollment, and abolishing departments accused of promoting hostility toward conservative views.
Schools that sign on would receive “substantial” federal grants, invitations to White House events, and direct access to administration officials. Brown was among the first nine universities approached with the administration’s deal.
The ACLU, however, said the plan represents a direct attack on academic freedom.
In its letter, the group accused the administration of weaponizing federal funding to force universities into compliance and undermine higher education.
“Among other things, agreeing to this compact would restrict university employees from speaking out on political issues, limit the enrollment of foreign students, and once again require the university to essentially deny the existence of transgender students,” the letter said, adding that the compact’s restrictions “prohibit anything that would ‘belittle’” conservative ideas.
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“the group accused the administration of weaponizing federal funding to force universities into compliance and undermine higher education”
Hillsdale College has entered the chat.
ACLU – Yet another organization that has been captured and lost its ways. Can they provide Brown with the funds it will lose if it doesn’t agree?? Didn’t think so.
Wow, how many things the wacko left would have to fund by themselves once the fedguv stops funding them. It’s enough to make you spasm in joy.
Of course, they’ll never succeed at it, because they have the attention span of fleas and the loyalty of praying mantises:
(from MediaITE, would you believe it.)