cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/79744
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university to reject President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which critics have called an “extortion” agreement for federal funding. MIT and eight other schools — the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern…
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The Virginia Senate is getting on about states’ rights again. They issued UVA an ultimatum: if UVA accepts the Trump compact, they lose all state funding.
That is an awesome and admirable move. Even if Trump was right he shouldn’t be dictating what state universities do.
Even if the state university wants to discriminate against black people? The federal government does control funds for compliance with things like civil rights.
It does feel odd to conflate discrimination with whitewashing history