I think that this is just n excuse, going after Harvard to "fix antisemitism."

[question everything]

He just needs to flex his muscles and going after the most prestigious university will add another gold nugget in his world.

On CNN they said that he wants it to assure that conservatives are educated there and, of course, conservatives did earn their degrees there: Gorsuch, Ted Cruz

[BOSSHOG]

1. Is putting Jews in gas chambers antisemitism?

Did JD Vance call trump Americas Hitler? He gets up every morning planning on hurting people.

[SheltieLover]

3. Same with forehead

Pure evil.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Of course it is

because they wouldn't kowtow to his demands.

[leftstreet]

4. "Why is Harvard getting so much of our tax dollars?"

This is the question they want their base to ponder

Not "Why is the military (big pharma, private insurance, banks, Musk) getting so much of our hard earned money?"

[NCDem47]

5. Harvard is probably the most famous and sought after university in the world.

If fascist Trump can bend them to his will, then he could reshape it to his ideological liking (like he has any ideology; this is all from someone else obviously)

WON'T HAPPEN.

Trump is a status whore. He think this is the biggest "get" in his steamrolling of higher education. I'm sure they F'd him over at some point and he's been holding a grudge.

I'm sorry, has Harvard EVER suppressed dissenting thoughts that produced the likes of Gorsuch, Cruz, DeSantis?

[Walleye]

6. Don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. I get tired of the news media, repeating what he says.

[question everything]

7. The Demands - from WSJ

Among the demands made in the Friday letter: Harvard would have to hire a third party, approved by the federal government, to audit the student body, faculty, staff and leadership for “viewpoint diversity” and to submit those reports to the federal government by the end of 2025.

Harvard would be required to share all its hiring and admissions data with the federal government—with the information subjected to government audits—until at least the end of 2028. The admissions data would need to include information about rejected and admitted students, broken down by race, color, national origin, grade-point average and performance on standardized tests.

All existing and prospective faculty would need to be reviewed for plagiarism.

Harvard would have to hire an external auditor to examine the programs and departments the task force said “most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture,” including Harvard’s divinity school, graduate school of education, school of public health and medical school. Harvard would have to reform recruitment, screening and admissions to weed out international students “hostile to the American values and institutions.”

The demands were designed to blow up negotiations, not move the two parties closer to a deal, said Jeffrey Flier, a former dean of the Harvard Medical School and member of the Council on Academic Freedom, which has been working toward expanding viewpoint diversity on campus.

“You can’t suddenly turn a switch and things change overnight,” he said. Many in the Trump administration “have said that they don’t think the institutions can be reformed from within, and they need to be burned down and rebuilt from the edges.”



Write to Douglas Belkin at [e-mail], Meridith McGraw at [e-mail], Erin Mulvaney at [e-mail] and Sara Randazzo at [e-mail]

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-leading-university-fight-trump-2a931dd1?st=xRQSNK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

free and scroll to the end

[question everything]

8. Kick, for the last comment

[Prairie Gates]

9. No shit

[William769]

10. I agree with you.

[flamingdem]

11. This is about Gov Pritzger's family

He's had a beef with them since the 1970s to do with real estate.

A Pritzger sits on the board. Maybe she's the director. Aimed at them.