Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.
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I contacted both of my alma maters today. Unsurprisingly, the one with a $523,000/student endowment was doing much more than the one with $17,000/student in endowment.
Slow mobilization of civil society against them is exactly what Miller is warning about. They know they will prompt massive backlash eventually but seek to consolidate power before then
now the Congress people and governors who will be directly impacted by these decisions need to get out in front of these universities with cancer patients and explain what’s going on and how it’s gonna hurt all of us. It’s imperative that we start to drive the narrative.
They're taking the approach that they'd like to have students enroll there ever again in the future while Columbia is staking claim to the opposite tract so it'll be interesting to see which is more successful.
Enos and Levitsky, in the Harvard Crimson, a month ago today: “If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”
It is not insignificant that one of the most powerful societal institutions, Harvard.. not just a university but the legacy feeding tube for society's movers, shakers and ruling class.. has chosen to pit its muscle against the Trump cabal
This ain't no "D.C. law firm". This could be their Watergate
Will take some time to roll out, but with Cornell and a few others + a solid PR agency, it might be helpful. Focusing on medical research, esp. cancer.
It’s roughly $2.2 million per student and the board of trustees can always address restrictions and solvency. Other schools have less than $10k per student. Spare us the minimization of their financial privilege.
You know, I belong to the community and have been part of conversations about how these freezes will affect us and what’s possible in terms of a response. Are you also here? If so, you’re getting different info from your dept./ school than I’m getting from mine.
Of course it’s not ideal. Nothing that’s happening is good. But Harvard has the largest endowment of any university in the United States. Believing it’s somehow going to be harder for Harvard than anywhere else is ridiculous.
I rarely side with Ivy League outputs. The past few years I’ve seen way too many who claim to be smart and understand the constitution (talking to you Vance, Cruz, etc), but apparently only learned how to bend things to make themself more powerful. I can support this, however.
My partner, who works at Harvard, says they did it last week (debuted that particular homepage). But, of course, even that change can be seen in light of *everything*
Strikes me that big pharma and major hospitals have become experts at advertising using individuals’ stories of how their lives were saved by medical and technological innovations. Can’t the same template be used by the big universities?
Love this. I hope my school (in MA, heavily liberal but a state U) follows suit when the orange one inevitably comes our way. They've already been part of a lawsuit against Trump admin, keep a page w updates against his b.s. as well as support for students on visas or concerned about risk of ICE.
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This ain't no "D.C. law firm". This could be their Watergate
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