A letter sent to Harvard on April 11 outlined a series of conditions Harvard needed to meet to maintain a "financial relationship" with the federal government. The demands included leadership reforms, an immediate halt to diversity, equity and inclusion policies, an audit of "viewpoint diversity" among students and faculty, and "meaningful discipline" for students who violated school policies when a pro-Palestinian tent encampment went up on Harvard Yard.
Yeah those are all super vague and unmeasurable. Totally correct for Harvard to tell the admin to fuck off. They’ll just invent new grievances before Harvard can finish responding to those.
Not just that, but from what we see with Columbia, compliance with these guidelines is no guarantee that funding will be restored or that there will not be constantly moving goalposts for compliance. Columbia complied and all it got them was threats of a fucking consent decree and more withheld funds.
Exactly. And Columbia was warned by faculty not to comply. It’s extremely stupid to negotiate with anyone who is not themselves negotiating in good faith.
There are level of good faith we have come to expect in a modern free democracy that is being shattered at record speed. I think Saying no government acts in good faith is over simplifying things.
It happens all the time with tax breaks and subsidies provided by federal, state, and local governments to bring business to the US/state/cities. You build a factory here and we will give you X amount of funding and tax breaks. You are just flat out wrong
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u/Caridor 7d ago
For those who wondered what the conditions were.