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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 months ago

Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump?

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Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump?

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 4 months ago
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Rich universities can afford to push back against the administration. Here’s why they aren’t.
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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
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    Ivory tower life for university admins soaks up endowments.

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    Because rich people are on the same team

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    Because for some reason our schools are run like businesses instead of government institutions. Sure, let any random goober decide what can and can’t be taught. Great idea. Let’s also charge money to make society more educated, and then wonder why society chooses to be stupid. Honestly as somebody who goes to college, much of the info can be found on google anyways (Tech professors even told me to just do pluralsight tutorials instead of their own lessons). Unless you’re getting hands-on training, the no-child left behind style of teaching is a complete joke. Just quiz after quiz, forget it all, nab degree and run into the brick wall of job hunting.

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      Can confirm that most of what I do on a daily basis I learned on Pluralsight.

      Hard to say whether I would have been able to get as much out of Pluralsight without a college education though.

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    Because universities want violence and fascism

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      Honestly, that’s a terrible ass take.

      It’s been the opposite of that - on the whole - like forever.

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        Oh well good thing it’s siding with fascists then.

        So smart.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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      The post-secondary administrators love funding Israel’s carnage.

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        Ya and we’ve been doing it for decades

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    Idk but I’m trying to think of any examples where the universities themselves put up resistance. https://theconversation.com/universities-in-nazi-germany-and-the-soviet-union-thought-giving-in-to-government-demands-would-save-their-independence-252888

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