Dartmouth College Profs Denounce Trump Admin’s Higher Ed Compact as ‘Fascist’
“egregious attack on First Amendment rights”
Of course they do. How original of them. This is just the left defending turf that they think belongs to them exclusively.
Campus Reform reports:
Dartmouth faculty denounce Trump admin’s higher ed compact as ‘fascist’ and ‘unconstitutional’
More than 575 Dartmouth College professors have signed a petition urging President Sian Leah Beilock to reject the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a federal agreement that would tie university funding to new academic and administrative standards.
The petition accuses the compact of being a “direct threat” to academic freedom, claiming it would place “state control over admissions, tuition, grades, hiring, teaching, and research.”
Faculty members behind the petition—many of them from the school’s gender and cultural studies departments—warned that signing the agreement would represent an “egregious attack on First Amendment rights,” The Dartmouth reported.
History professor Pamela Voekel, one of the petition’s authors, said the deal represented the “absolute constitutional illegality of any deal being made with the [Trump] administration,” calling it an “egregious attack on First Amendment rights.”
Voekel told The Dartmouth that the petition broke a record for faculty signatories in the past decade.
Her co-author, history professor Bethany Moreton, called the compact “unlawful and unconstitutional,” claiming the Trump administration had “identified Dartmouth—and the eight other universities who received the Compact—as a potential weak link.”
Moreton warned that the deal could allow the administration to “use this small group as proxies to enforce on American higher education itself.”
Meanwhile, conservative students on campus say the outrage is overblown. Dartmouth Conservatives president Jack Coleman told The Dartmouth he “wholeheartedly supports” many of the compact’s “common sense” provisions.
Coleman added that “the federal government has the ability to put conditions on taxpayer dollars,” saying he would support voluntarily adopting many of the compact’s principles.
Other faculty members, however, described the proposal in extreme terms. One student activist called the compact a “very clearly fascist document” that would “gut” Dartmouth’s women’s, gender, and sexuality studies department.
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“Fascist” is it also racist? And Nazi? May as well get Al of the words in that are used by those with no real argument.
“Everything I don’t like is Fascist!”
Yes, reject it.
Please.
Then we can move onto Trump’s second offer, which (as anyone who has been paying attention knows by now) is never as sweet as the first one was.
Alumni should stop donating to these colleges until their houses are completely swept clean of all these intolerant buffoons and administrators.
Federal funds should also be withdrawn completely. They don’t like it – too f’g bad. Take federal money obey federal rules. This is kinder than what the democrats would do.
The Left seem to believe that anyone trying to get into the ‘Reichstag’ after their fire is a fascist, but those already in the building, or newly appointed fellow travellers, are pure as the driven snow.