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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with Eisgruber (Princeton) that it's dangerous and a folly for universities to capitulate to a sitting president's political agenda (Trump). That's not what democracies should do. It's what happened very quickly in Russia (see the film my Undesirable Friends Part 1, 2024).

I think some of these uni presidents don't have a backbone and also smell an opportunity to take a middling position or play along with Trump.

History will judge this mess. They're all in the crucible now and we'll see and history will tell what they're made of.
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Yeah, this is just rank opportunism from Vandy and WashU. They smell an opportunity to get out from the shadow of more elite institutions by accepting the terms of the Rufos of the world. It’s embarrassing, short-term thinking but probably not surprising given the desperation of these schools to get out of the Ivies’ shadow (not to mention their location in deep-red states where I’m sure the fight against authoritarian ideology must be exhausting…but then university presidents are paid a whole lot of money to do this job, so my sympathy does not run very deep).

I also know that at least one non-Ivy top-10 institution was approached to join the Vandy/WashU group and declined. They heard the pitch as purely opportunistic—let’s differentiate ourselves from the Ivies—and didn’t want any part of it. So it’s not just the Ivies who see this as foolish.[/quote]

[b]What are the "non-Ivy top 10 institutions?[/b]" Duke? MIT? Cal Tech? Stanford? I think that is pretty much the list unless you want to be more loose in your definition of "top 10" and add Chicago, Hopkins, Northwestern? Why not just say what school it is?[/quote]

The non-Ivy League Top 10 National Universities are:

MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, & Duke.

The school in question is probably, my best guess, Duke.[/quote]

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