Do you think our graduating seniors will have a normal college experience?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as they're not hoping to engage in research while in college, should be fine.

What does this mean? Why not research?

He's cutting all the funding and grants. Anything with the word "woman" or "female" or "diverse" or "environment" especially. I guess anything with the word "male" may survive as long as no "females" are studied or referenced in the same work. Nearly all NSF grants and other grants are frozen or "paused".

Honestly it’s worse than that. Sometimes words like “diversity” are used in a scientific context and not at all pertaining to people and those are flagged and rejected. And here’s an example, albeit in a different setting: there was a neuroscience conference recently and there was a researcher’s poster about “diversity of afferent firing in the cochlea”. What that means is how nerves fire inside the ear in varying ways. Dudes in MAGA hats tore down the posters just because they saw the word, “diverse”. It’s just madness.

So anyway stem is out. I don’t know what a safe major is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

It’s so school dependent. Private schools will need to reach into their coffers and use their endowment.

Now, if you attend a school without a hefty endowment well sure, then you’re screwed. If your children have options, this spring enroll at the wealthiest school you can afford. The resources they are will matter more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

The dean of U-Michigan LSA is a women’s studies major.
This whole cost-cutting exercise will be way more nuanced than people realize. Universities are savvy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

It’s so school dependent. Private schools will need to reach into their coffers and use their endowment.

Now, if you attend a school without a hefty endowment well sure, then you’re screwed. If your children have options, this spring enroll at the wealthiest school you can afford. The resources they are will matter more.

There is zero talk of using endowment, that wouldn’t work. Endowments are restricted funds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

The dean of U-Michigan LSA is a women’s studies major.
This whole cost-cutting exercise will be way more nuanced than people realize. Universities are savvy.

That isn’t what I hearing. Cuts are going to be too deep for just changing titles.

[Anonymous]

Would it be inappropriate to reach out to a school and ask if they will be able to honor the merit aid scholarship for 4 years? If not then we have to choose state even with potential cuts.

[Anonymous]

At least trump will be gone by the time they graduate college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least trump will be gone by the time they graduate college.

But not Vance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

The dean of U-Michigan LSA is a women’s studies major.
This whole cost-cutting exercise will be way more nuanced than people realize. Universities are savvy.

That isn’t what I hearing. Cuts are going to be too deep for just changing titles.

A university will have to get back to bare bones. You will only have the main subjects for which they are known or famous. Yale and the humanities (drop all that stem stuff). MIT and stem (drop all the humanities).

It’s also quite hard to fire a tenured professor. So the cuts may not come from faculty, but instead from programming changes. Student life. Staff hours.
Quality of all undergraduate programming.

You will want to go to schools with the wealthiest student bodies. That rely the least on financial aid so they are at least not trying to fill those holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would it be inappropriate to reach out to a school and ask if they will be able to honor the merit aid scholarship for 4 years? If not then we have to choose state even with potential cuts.

I would ask. Not sure the people in financial aid would know as discussions are still more at a leadership level. I might wait another month or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would it be inappropriate to reach out to a school and ask if they will be able to honor the merit aid scholarship for 4 years? If not then we have to choose state even with potential cuts.

If they haven't already told you that it carries over for all four years, that's something that's always fair to ask. Some schools front load their aid routinely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

The dean of U-Michigan LSA is a women’s studies major.
This whole cost-cutting exercise will be way more nuanced than people realize. Universities are savvy.

That isn’t what I hearing. Cuts are going to be too deep for just changing titles.

Ooooh. What you “hearing”. Really?
Give me a break.
Idiot.

Thanks. I have a family member on the Board of Trustees at one well known private and spouse works at another. But sure, I know nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least trump will be gone by the time they graduate college.

If he keeps going at the current rate, there will be so much destruction left in his wake, what will it matter? Also, if you read what "they" are up to, I think it's kinda quaint that any of us think there will be free and fair elections ever again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worry about the anti-DEI orders and the effects. Not sure how deep this will go and how broadly it could impact our kids. Things like classes or clubs or organizations that could be deemed as DEI not being allowed anymore, for example Women’s studies, Women in Economics club, Black (or any ethnic group) Engineers, etc.

All of these “studies programs” and professors will just become part of the history, literature, anthropology, or sociology departments as they always were before the special “group studies” programs emerged. Meaning they’ll just stay there and be a certain “track “but won’t be an official major.

In this way, history, political, science, English, anthropology, sociology majors will actually get larger because they will incorporate all of the smaller group studies programs.

Source: private T10 general counsel’s office

I’ve heard they will be cutting departments so I don’t think that’s necessarily true, I guess if the budget allows.

The dean of U-Michigan LSA is a women’s studies major.
This whole cost-cutting exercise will be way more nuanced than people realize. Universities are savvy.

That isn’t what I hearing. Cuts are going to be too deep for just changing titles.

Ooooh. What you “hearing”. Really?
Give me a break.
Idiot.

Thanks. I have a family member on the Board of Trustees at one well known private and spouse works at another. But sure, I know nothing.

Congratulations