Columbia might have caved to Trump & Co. effort to shift school’s to be more inline with the conservertive point of views…Harvard …MIT and More school’s are balking at the threat of funding b eing withheld unless school’s get in line with Trump agenda….
Brown University is rejecting a Trump administration proposal that would provide favorable access to funding in exchange for a wide range of commitments, saying the deal would curtail academic freedom and undermine the university’s independence.
Brown is the latest university to turn down the proposal, which White House officials said would bring “multiple positive benefits” including “substantial and meaningful federal grants.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology backed away from the proposal last week after its president said it would restrict free speech and campus autonomy.
Brown President Christina Paxson turned down the proposal on Wednesday in a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and White House officials. The Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island is aligned with some of the provisions in the offer, she said — including commitments to affordability and equal opportunity in admissions — but can’t agree to others.
Brown and MIT were among nine universities invited this month to become “initial signatories” to the proposal. Officials at the University of Texas system said they were honored to be invited, while most others have remained quiet. The Trump administration invited feedback from universities by Oct. 20 and requested decisions no later than Nov. 21.
Brown previously struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore lost research funding and end federal investigations into discrimination….
Update….
Penn, USC join growing list of universities declining Trump’s federal funding deal
The White House says schools that want the support offered in the compact should implement the “reforms” outlined.
Update….
More Collegs saying NO to Trump black mail….
University of Virginia turns down Trump deal for priority federal funding
Five of the nine universities have so far said they will not sign onto the deal.
Whatever one thinks of the recent rulings of the Supreme Court, this constant labeling of the “Alito Court” is ridiculous.
John Roberts is the Chief Justice. He falls down on the same side of Alito far more often than not. Just call it the “Roberts Court”, whether you think they are great, horrible, or somewhere in between.
Bull Shit….
It’s Alito’s court…..
Roberts is just a bystander up to now this year….
That’s an illogical statement, but par for the course with you.
Of course it IS Alito that IS running the politics inside the chamber….
he’s getting his retribution like Trump….
ALL those years he had to bite his tongue as the could actually helped the country deal with it’s makeup and ‘Rights’…
So, Alito is telling Roberts (and the other conservatives) how to vote?
Beam me up.
Alito doesn’t have to tell Roberts a thing….
He’s got his posse votingwith him and Roberts just tags along…..
Associate Justice Alito can count on only two ever-reliable allies on the “right”: JJ. Thomas and Gorsuch.
In different cases, the three more-liberal Justices, have been joined by at least one (sometimes two) of the more centrist trio of Justices Roberts, Barrett and (surprisingly) Kavanaugh.
After all these less-ideologial judges do think for themselves, and can reach separate individual concurring conclusions and opinions.
Certainly hasn’t happened with great frequency, but certainly more than once.
Recent rulings HAVE generally reflected Alito’s LEAD….
Not Robert’s I believe
But then there isn’t much background on their calls recently, eh?
That’s probably because the Supreme Court’s sessions begin in October to end about June (i.e. before the heat & humidity in D.C. become oppressive). Most of their non-peremptory rulings come in the Spring.
A few REAL SERIOUS stuff this term
Alito and his posse could REALLY UNDO a lot of stuff and make his Guy the ‘King’ for Life!