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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No our kids will not have anything near a normal college experience or post-college trajectory. It's very sad.

Unless we find a way to put legal constraints on his behavior, the Senate Republicans grow a spine and block his efforts, or we vote the Dems back into majority.

The current admin is too busy lining their pockets with corrupt self deals to follow any kind of normal Republican or ethical behavior. And the so-called normal Republicans won't stand up to him because they are scared. So we need to vote them all out.[/quote]

What has changed for the college experience?  I get the research grants.  People will just have to deal.  But what else?[/quote]

If colleges are in existential crisis mode, and many think they will be, there will be hiring freezes. More non-tenure track faculty. Fewer, and lower paid, teaching assistants. Fewer academic advisors. Shorter opening hours at the library and the campus gym. Fewer seminars on campus (no $ to bring in outside speakers and put them up.) Reduced arts programming. Reduced course offerings and larger class sizes. Less money for student activities (so, for example, no pizza at club meetings).

Lots of things can, and will, be cut.  Many of these things don't touch the core functions of the university (pizza, for example), but some -- especially increased class size and increased use of contingent faculty -- do.  All of them will result in a less service, and a lower quality of life, for undergraduate students. [/quote]

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