Well done MIT. Hopefully this will encourage others to stand their ground too, even if they’re not so well equipped with other sources of funding as MIT.
"With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WithDueRespect
With Due Respect
“Why is it that whenever someone says ‘with all due respect’, they really mean ‘kiss my ass’?”
— Ashley Williams, Mass Effect 1
Highly appropriate though, if we’re being honest
All due respect, if getting spit on’s how respect is now defined
-Run the Jewelswith a video that’s only gotten more grim with time
I like it even better than “kiss my ass”! It often strongly insinuates that the writer thinks that all the respect that is due is none.
Universities have legacies to maintain. Some have already irreparably fucked that up.
Looking at you, Columbia.
Straight to the trash, any resume from Columbia. Sorry not sorry. Your institution is beyond tainted. Just tell me you got a GED instead.
I mean arguably Columbia is perfectly mantaining its legacy.
King’s College
I’m sorry how is that fair to current students or alumni who predate current events?
It isn’t.
That’s the nature of of ruining a legacy.
Fair isn’t how things normally play out. If hiring was fair, the name of your University wouldn’t have half the impact it does on law firms and such. Any good company will know they are still a good student if they graduated, but stains come from before/during/after no matter what.
Were the Harry Potter books a great series for kids at the time, I say definitely. Do the stains from the authors views after they come out stain the actors/actresses who don’t denounce them… unfortunately yes. You see it in so many threads shitting on anyone willing to work on their upcoming series.
Is it reasonable… Many people think yes, so they will lose audience. Many people think no, so they will keep that audience. If Rowling died, would that stain on the product still hold in 10 years… It will stay for some forever.
pretty sure MIT did the math
Good; hopefully other universities follow.
Welp props to MIT. I would love to see foreign countries refuse to recognise any sort of certifications from any place that does.
How can there be funding benefits of there is no funding? They kinda gave up their leverage
I know California threatened to cut support for colleges who caved to Trump but I’m not quite sure with Massachusetts.
and to provide instruction in American civics to all foreign students,” the memo about the compact said.
Of course, they will have to use the civics curriculum provided by the illegitimate MAGA Nazi government, which will be prepared by the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
American history currently taught in schools is already colonial propaganda, they wouldn’t need to change much. Most of the world learns a very different history of America, and it would be sufficient to expose them to the propaganda Americans grew up on.
Signers would be required to freeze tuition rates charged to American students for the next five years, among other conditions, according to the memo. In return, the schools would be given a “competitive advantage,” including priority for grants and invitations to White House events and discussions with officials, a White House official said in a statement.
Going to the white house to talk to officials there does not sound like an “advantage” under the current leadership. It sounds more like punishment.
i was going to say, but MIT is a pipeline for Israeli weapons research industry, scientist, engineer that dont feel conscience when supporting israeli efforts.
