Important piece on how universities fought Orbán and can fight Trump today www.chronicle.com/article/how-... - ThreadSky

smotus.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Important piece on how universities fought Orbán and can fight Trump today
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-a-university-fights-an-authoritarian-regime?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_12957214_nl_Academe-Today_date_20250320

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bruinsgirl77.bsky.social•3 days ago

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cymchoke.bsky.social•3 days ago

Columbia: “That sounds like a lot of work. We’re thinking that it would be a lot easier and better to just roll over.”

Disgraceful.

cristinus.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm a bit confused by your statement, because it seems to be detached from reality. As far as I know, Hungarian universities were not successful (neither was mass media). It would be more useful to learn what went wrong to avoid the same fate.

libbyvolgyes.bsky.social•3 days ago

You are correct.

matt12l.bsky.social•3 days ago

Correct. Ignatieff failed. He isn’t very reflective about why. My first piece of advice would be to promote capable administrators from within and dump showboating personalities who enjoy the smell of their own brand.

smsaideman.bsky.social•3 days ago

I haven't read the piece yet, but I have to note that Central European University ended up having to move out of Budapest to Vienna.

maggiepye.bsky.social•3 days ago

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picci0909.bsky.social•3 days ago

jacobedenhofer.bsky.social•3 days ago

@ccavaille.bsky.social

ccavaille.bsky.social•3 days ago

Adding to the brainstorm doc!

sto-k.bsky.social•3 days ago

*LOVE* this! I hope @ischool.uw.edu enlists alumni in the fights ahead!

blurredblurs.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good luck with that. It’s way too late for this kind of shit to have any effect. This country is entrapped by social media that’s feeding right-leaning lies 24/7. All of our institutions have been disassembled in less than 60 days. We are way past 25A stuff and the dems have completely cowered.

dmbfanatic.bsky.social•3 days ago

THIS. In any fight against the government framing it as "but what about me?" Makes an argument scattered. Unite

bigworker.bsky.social•4 days ago

"What if we just expel anyone who has ever said anything negative about Israel?"

meadekrosby.bsky.social•4 days ago

Alt text: "I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can. Mobilize your alumni networks. Enlist families whose children's lives have been saved in your hospitals; reach out to companies that have commercialized your research, make contact with universities in red..." 1/

meadekrosby.bsky.social•4 days ago

"...and blue states, public and private, who face the same threat. Do it fast. Make sure your campaign is not just about you, because that opens you to attack as a defender of privilege. Make the case to the public that these attacks are senseless assaults on institutions that promote..." 2/

meadekrosby.bsky.social•4 days ago

"...what America is famous for: life-saving science and world-class innovation." 3/3

wavycloud.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's crazy how slow the universities have been to adopt a strategy like this given what they stand to lose. Not sure they ever will. It's maddening, and it's not "rocket science."

artemisrisingdiana.bsky.social•4 days ago

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tapplegate.bsky.social•3 days ago

CEU is a building on Bard College’s campus and some other international functions. Orban destroyed that school.

theoldmagoo.bsky.social•3 days ago

I visited their Gender Studies program in Budapest on a grant from my university back in 2001. It was so shocking when they had to move to Vienna.

tapplegate.bsky.social•3 days ago

We had all kinds of collaborations with them when I was in grad school at Rutgers. It was top notch.

tonysomo.bsky.social•3 days ago

US Universities? C’mon!
They caved to the monied Republican hysteria about the student anti-Gaza War Protests.
Harvard forbade its faculty from participating in a “read-in” at the campus Library.
Universities in the EU are state funded; they’re shielded from billionaire trustee blackmail.

tonysomo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh and btw:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/20/universities-cave-conservatives-trump-00241765

naiablueetax.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mana, que massa esse conteúdo! É sempre bom ver como instituições podem se organizar pra resistir a figuras autoritárias. Vou dar uma olhada nesse link, parece ser uma leitura bem interessante! Valeu por compartilhar, viu?

paprof4.bsky.social•4 days ago

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ninaamenta.bsky.social•3 days ago

"You’re going to need an alliance that pulls together American families, employers, unions, companies, the whole network of people and institutions beyond your campus who understand that the universities of America are critical to everything that is good about the country..."

ninaamenta.bsky.social•3 days ago

...its commitment to freedom, its devotion to excellence, its leadership in science and medicine. This alliance is going to have to get political — to reach across red state and blue state, identify the members of Congress from both sides of the House who understand..."

ninaamenta.bsky.social•3 days ago

"...why universities matter to their communities, to the American economy, and to America’s deserved reputation for excellence. Don’t mince words. It’s too late to play nice. Call a spade a spade. Convince enough Americans that the administration’s strategy deserves only one name: vandalism."

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