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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the criminal who was fined $25 million for running a fake "university" should be able to tell Harvard what to teach?
That seems like a stretch ... even for a cult.
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So the criminal who was fined $25 million for running a fake "university" should be able to tell Harvard what to teach? (Original Post)
11 Bravo
23 hrs ago
OP
A criminal who cannot read, think, or understand anything is lecturing Harvard
Irish_Dem
23 hrs ago
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Not only that, he's issued an "executive order" saying he's going to "reform" college accreditation
muriel_volestrangler
23 hrs ago
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Irish_Dem
(68,580 posts)1. A criminal who cannot read, think, or understand anything is lecturing Harvard
and other universities.
Beachnutt
(8,667 posts)2. And the 6 time bankrupt failed business owner
telling successful company CEO's how to run their business.
muriel_volestrangler
(103,480 posts)3. Not only that, he's issued an "executive order" saying he's going to "reform" college accreditation
and "reform" means "the fix is in":
President Trump is tackling the broken accreditation system that has left students with soaring debt, low graduation rates, and degrees of questionable value. Hoo boy is that rich, coming from the guy who was found to have defrauded students with Trump University, which was not a University, but expensive talks online and in hotel ballrooms that promised to turn anyone into a successful real estate investor, including you.
So now he wants to be able to take accreditation from colleges that are suspected of doing DEI and not prioritizing intellectual diversity among faculty so Linda McMahon will choose new accreditors to do the blessing and/or yanking. For a department he just executive-order closed a month ago, hes sure keeping rasslin Linda busy.
Colleges need to be accredited to access Title IV funding, the $120 billion in federal financial aid thats doled out to about 10 million students each year, so this is a way to effectively drown in a bucket whatever colleges they would like to without going through the hassle of yanking their funding one by one. Accreditation started in an official kind of way with the GI Bill in the 1950s, because the government wanted to make sure that veterans using GI Bill funds to go to college werent getting ripped off by some kind of early version of Trump University. What Congress maketh, Executive Orders cant taketh away, so, see you in court! Hope all you colleges have a lot of lawyer money.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hear-ye-hear-ye-new-holy-executive
So now he wants to be able to take accreditation from colleges that are suspected of doing DEI and not prioritizing intellectual diversity among faculty so Linda McMahon will choose new accreditors to do the blessing and/or yanking. For a department he just executive-order closed a month ago, hes sure keeping rasslin Linda busy.
Colleges need to be accredited to access Title IV funding, the $120 billion in federal financial aid thats doled out to about 10 million students each year, so this is a way to effectively drown in a bucket whatever colleges they would like to without going through the hassle of yanking their funding one by one. Accreditation started in an official kind of way with the GI Bill in the 1950s, because the government wanted to make sure that veterans using GI Bill funds to go to college werent getting ripped off by some kind of early version of Trump University. What Congress maketh, Executive Orders cant taketh away, so, see you in court! Hope all you colleges have a lot of lawyer money.
https://www.wonkette.com/p/hear-ye-hear-ye-new-holy-executive
So the guy who abused the concept of a "university" the most is now going to say what are real universities.
0rganism
(25,010 posts)4. Clearly $25 Million was not nearly enough
We're all stuck in Trump U now, getting our degrees in "living with dictators" -- a BS, naturally.