Harvard pushed back--now Trump's ramping up his war on higher education

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Within hours of Harvard University telling the Trump administration to take its authoritarian wishlist and shove it, President Donald Trump froze $2.3 billion in federal funds.

The trigger for Trump’s latest temper tantrum was Harvard’s refusal to cave to his list of overreaching demands sent under the pretense of fighting antisemitism. Some of those “requests” include eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and screening international students for their political views.

On Monday, Harvard said no.

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a message to the university community.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/15/2316592/-Harvard-pushed-back-now-Trump-s-ramping-up-his-war-on-higher-education

How many pairs of Depends did you soil Donny?

[Nululu]

1. Surrendering to Dictators never works

https://www.alternet.org/universities-in-nazi-germany-and-the-soviet-union-thought-giving-in-to-government-demands-would-save-their-independence/

Universities thought surrendering their independence to Nazi Germany would save them, it did not.

The transformation of German academia was not a slow drift but a swift and systemic overhaul. But what made Hitler’s orders stick was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order. Each decision – each erased name, each revised syllabus, each closed program and department – was framed as necessary, even patriotic. Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge – they served power