Why aren’t universities using their billion-dollar endowments to fight Trump?

2 years ago by Sunshine (she/her) to c/usa

Why Harvard and other rich universities aren’t tapping their fortunes to push back against the administration.
ToiletFlushShowerScream 21 points 2 years ago

Ivory tower life for university admins soaks up endowments.

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SoftestSapphic 17 points 2 years ago

Because rich people are on the same team

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JekyllAndHyde 12 points 2 years ago

Because for some reason our schools are run like businesses instead of government institutions. Sure, let any random goober decide what can and can't be taught. Great idea. Let's also charge money to make society more educated, and then wonder why society chooses to be stupid. Honestly as somebody who goes to college, much of the info can be found on google anyways (Tech professors even told me to just do pluralsight tutorials instead of their own lessons). Unless you're getting hands-on training, the no-child left behind style of teaching is a complete joke. Just quiz after quiz, forget it all, nab degree and run into the brick wall of job hunting.

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OpenPassageways 1 point 2 years ago

Can confirm that most of what I do on a daily basis I learned on Pluralsight.

Hard to say whether I would have been able to get as much out of Pluralsight without a college education though.

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Coreidan -11 points 2 years ago

Because universities want violence and fascism

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Letsdothisok 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, that's a terrible ass take.

It's been the opposite of that - on the whole - like forever.

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Coreidan 1 point 2 years ago

Oh well good thing it’s siding with fascists then.

So smart.

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Sunshine -1 points 2 years ago

The post-secondary administrators love funding Israel's carnage.

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Coreidan -2 points 2 years ago

Ya and we’ve been doing it for decades

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