White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement

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Anonymous wrote:This is the kind of micromanaging that makes people incessantly complain about their bosses. Why can't he focus on the big picture?

The president of the United States probably couldn't get over a 30% percentile SAT or ACT score, so HTH is he to tell colleges to rescind test-option.

Also, UO has no tuition increases for 5 years -- Go Ducks!

He should be required to take a Constitution test (like juniors in my state are required to do), score a 1550+ on SAT and follow the fitness regime outlined by the Dept of War yesterday!

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Extortion is the rule of the day every day with this administration.

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Anonymous wrote:In theory, if they sign, they need to eliminate tuition for anyone studying the “hard” sciences such as Math, Biology et al.

I think this means anything they deem as a difficult science though last I checked, Math isn’t a science at all.

Guess everyone will double major in Math even if you are just getting Cs.

That's only for Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.

Huh?

The “free tuition for hard science majors” rule only applies if the endowment is over a certain size.

At less wealthy schools it would produce a very troubling effect, where most of the class is trying to major in hard sciences and the professors are required to fail a certain number or the college will be in the red. Weed-out courses on steroids.

Well it’s any school that has an endowment that averages $2MM per student or higher.

I think on the initial list it may be all of the schools…maybe not Arizona?

It uses undergrad population for the calculation so maybe more schools qualify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Extortion is the rule of the day every day with this administration.

Universities are among the biggest service "export" that the USA has with foreign countries. Trump is kililng the golden goose.

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Anonymous wrote:"Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official."

Who's going to sign this first? My bet: Vanderbilt.

This will never end until Trump extorts money out of all the universities (except the truly MAGA ones like Liberty and maybe some in the red states). Too bad the all didn't band together at the beginning to stop this when Columbia and U Penn were first attacked.

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We have a Government in shutdown and THIS is what Trump thinks is a priority? Smh.

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Why is Trump worried about using gender in admissions? Doesn’t he realize that the number of boys will go way down if colleges aren’t allowed to balance the class for gender?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Trump worried about using gender in admissions? Doesn’t he realize that the number of boys will go way down if colleges aren’t allowed to balance the class for gender?

Hilarious. If this is followed, elite math, physics, and engineering programs will be 90% male.

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Anonymous wrote:"Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official."

Who's going to sign this first? My bet: Vanderbilt.

This will never end until Trump extorts money out of all the universities (except the truly MAGA ones like Liberty and maybe some in the red states). Too bad the all didn't band together at the beginning to stop this when Columbia and U Penn were first attacked.

JD Vance wasn't lying when he said "Trump is an Opiode drug". Maga love the endorphins they get thinking that they are "owning the libs" only to wake up and find their livelihoods and future were eaten and discarded by greedy Trump and his mafia bros. So sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Trump worried about using gender in admissions? Doesn’t he realize that the number of boys will go way down if colleges aren’t allowed to balance the class for gender?

Hilarious. If this is followed, elite math, physics, and engineering programs will be 90% male.

Yes but there’s other majors- also not really. The top 10% of elite college stem majors would be men but there’s plenty of women at the top in these fields. Even if there weren’t, you’re neglecting biology, chemistry, neuroscience,…there are a lot less qualified men than women. Our admissions process isn’t just SAT scores- you have to actually be able to engage with community and write well.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Trump worried about using gender in admissions? Doesn’t he realize that the number of boys will go way down if colleges aren’t allowed to balance the class for gender?

Hilarious. If this is followed, elite math, physics, and engineering programs will be 90% male.

Why? I thought perfect math scores were like 2:1 male, not 9:1.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is Trump worried about using gender in admissions? Doesn’t he realize that the number of boys will go way down if colleges aren’t allowed to balance the class for gender?

Hilarious. If this is followed, elite math, physics, and engineering programs will be 90% male.

Why? I thought perfect math scores were like 2:1 male, not 9:1.

Because you’re talking to an unintelligent person, who holds on to sexist ideas about women’s abilities to explain their own mediocrity. Notice how they ignored 99% of majors and can’t generalize a statement that there’d be more men than women, because they know they’d be wrong. So they fixate on what men excel at and try to position that as some domineering point of significance when it’s hardly a footnote.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump and MAGA are so angry, so vindictive, so nasty. He is not trying to make America great again. He is just trying to make the other side miserable.

I am a broken record but I will say it again. There were a lot of problems in this country. DEI was overboard. Schools went to far policing thought. But this is not the solution. And anyone who thinks so is a brainwashed moron. The fact that tens of millions of Americans think that this is OK is truly scary.

Can we just secede and be done with it? Unfortunately Trump would see that as "losing" so would never let it happen. Despite being the biggest loser out there. And anyone who is OK with him is also a loser. He is a truly pathetic child. He can rot in hell.

+100000
Well said

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, this is the part that everyone should be focusing on:

The compact asks universities to ensure a “vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus” and to bar employees from expressing political views on behalf of their employer, unless the matter affects the school. It seeks to create a more-welcoming environment for conservatives, asking colleges to make governance changes and abolish departments that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

Free and academic speech implications are awful.

Right now, many conservatives, students and staff, in this area just keep their heads down on campus and go about their day.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, this is the part that everyone should be focusing on:

The compact asks universities to ensure a “vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus” and to bar employees from expressing political views on behalf of their employer, unless the matter affects the school. It seeks to create a more-welcoming environment for conservatives, asking colleges to make governance changes and abolish departments that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

Free and academic speech implications are awful.

Right now, many conservatives, students and staff, in this area just keep their heads down on campus and go about their day.

What would you like changed? Genuinely I don’t get all the rambling about nothing. There are a ton of tpusa and college republican chapters. You want conservative speakers? Sure. But lthee than spending a bunch of money to invite conservatives- what is your point.