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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My prediction: no university official will testify in front of Congress for the next decade. Why subject yourself or your institution to that political circus?[/quote]

They will testify either to keep their federal fund siphons from being plugged or to keep their university's reputation, if anyone actually cares about that anymore.[/quote]

[b]Uh what? No they don't need to testify. There is not statutory requirement for them to testify. [/b]There is no criminal case being investigated.

The federal government will keep spending research dollars and providing student loans to the Ivy League and other elite universities.

Reputation? As we saw in this previous hearing, the universities put their reputations at risk by going in front of these wildly political showcases where members of Congress are trying to express their rhetorical sentiments for the online social media mobs who eat it all up. There is more risk showing up than choosing to decline and remain out of the Congressional spotlight. [/quote]

forgive me, I'm not a lawyer but doesn't someone have to appear if they get a congressional subpoena?  And I heard the first thing Gay and the other presidents did was "lawyer up" before appearing, so I guess the lawyers didn't give them your advice that there's no requirement to testify.[/quote]

There was no subpoena. It was an "invitation." The head of Columbia University declined to attend the hearing and she probably saved her job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/us/politics/congress-testimony-harvard-penn.html

The reasoned they "lawyered up" is because they had to to testify under oath and they don't want to commit perjury (either intentionally or accidentally). So they wanted to run their answers through attorneys, who would then fact-check the proposed responses. From a legal perspective, their answers should have lots of wiggle room. [/quote]

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