"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university"
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter
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@jeffjarvis institutions will always capitulate to a dictator in order to maintain their own power structure. you know this. none of this is really surprising if you know history.
@jeffjarvis Alumni need to punish the Institutions which have let them down. It's disgraceful how they've bent the knee, and they should know better too, they should know where this all leads.....it's nothing new.
"The only thing more dangerous than compromising it right now would be to allow the government instead to define the truth for our universities, and for us."
Academic freedom in America is in danger
https://www.ft.com/content/73c3594c-f5bb-4377-bf8c-5107206c47ca
@jeffjarvis That's print it mildly. Saying American academic freedom is in danger is like saying a quadruple amputee in a coma with liver disease is in danger.
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