Students and Faculty at Vanderbilt U. Protest Trump’s Higher Ed Compact
“This is appeasement, and if you’ve ever taken a World War II history class, you know what appeasement does.”
All the talking points are here. Fascism, authoritarian, etc. How much would you bet half of these people don’t even understand what Trump is trying to do here?
Campus Reform reports:
Vanderbilt students and faculty protest Trump’s Higher Ed Compact
A protest was recently held at a major Tennessee university over the possibility of the school signing the Trump administration’s higher education compact.
Over 300 Vanderbilt University students, faculty, and community members gathered on campus on Nov. 5 to protest the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
The university has not formally signed the agreement, but has signaled it will continue talks with the Trump administration, Campus Reform previously reported.
The compact would offer funding opportunities to schools in exchange for instituting a number of standards, including protecting free speech, taking action to prevent bias and violence against conservative students, protecting women’s intimate spaces, and more.
The recent demonstration saw protesters descend on the campus carrying signs with slogans such as “Reject the Compact” and “Protect International Students,” the latter referencing limitations the compact would put on the number of international students a school could enroll.
One student seemed to compare the Trump administration to the Nazi regime in Germany, saying, “This isn’t just an olive branch. This is appeasement, and if you’ve ever taken a World War II history class, you know what appeasement does.”
A graduate student also connected fascism to conservative ideology in his criticism of the compact, saying, “I have to talk about the history of fascism. It’s really concerning to me, this idea that I can’t belittle conservative ideas. I need to be able to openly discuss these histories to do my job.”
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What a bunch of snivelers, Let them all transfer to Oberlin.
300 students and faculty protesting is actually rather modest given that enrollment is over 13,000 students and 1800 faculty. One is likely to get more protestors against any declaration about day light savings time.
When I was an assistant professor at Vandy, I was appalled by the quantity of libtard faculty, their rejection of the scientific method and ignorance of history. After 5 years of purgatory I bolted to the private sector.