Reply to USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t think that the vast majority of colleges are too far to the left?[/quote]

That's not for me to say. I think all colleges should have academic freedom from the government. Whether they organically veer to the left or right, I don't care. They should just be free to go in any direction they choose. And students can make their own judgements on whether they want to attend.
[/quote]

Of course, all schools should enjoy academic freedom, but not all schools should enjoy & benefit from Federal research funding grants.

Relationships--whether financial or otherwise-come with restrictions.[/quote]

Most of the federal research dollars universities bring in are awarded by NIH, NSF, DOE, etc. through open competitions among the very best academics in the country on mostly STEM topics that have little to do with politics or ideology.

Academic departments that may be at odds with the current administration's political ideology (e.g., social sciences, humanities) don't bring in much federal money, if at all.

Departments that do (e.g., engineering, hard sciences, medicine) are aiming at building better 3-D printers, understanding how quantum entanglement can be used to benefit humans, create more reliable cancer cell detection schemes, etc. Why penalize them?? Professors in these departments typically don't have much to say about politics. They just want to do their research/teaching/services but become collateral damage.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics