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ghouls for commensality 🧿
@inquiline@assemblag.es  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-proposed-federal-compact

#MIT #HigherEd #academia #uspol

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@impermanen_@zirk.us replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@inquiline I really like the way Kornbluth highlighted that the compact *prevents* universities from admissions based on merit. Underscoring not only that universities need diverse *student bodies* to educate well, but that meritorious *individuals* are served fairly by diversity initiatives.

IME, women and minorities still usually have to be substantially *better* at what they do than a typical white guy before they can get a foot in a door that he passes through easily.

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@mungus@jorts.horse replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@inquiline seems like the goal will be providing plentiful funding for right-wing universities, keeping costs low for their students, and producing a generation where authoritarian students have better access to degrees and qualifications.

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