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GreasenUSA said:

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An attack on their "independence" lol.

Why does the news report the exact opposite of the truth?

It's an attack on their dependence.

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If they want to be truly independent they need to stop taking federal funding.

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Agreed. They need to use those super intelligent minds on their faculty to come up with a business model that doesn't require Federal funding to keep them above water, otherwise abide by the strings attached to your funding and get over yourselves.

cashag95 said:

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techno-ag said:

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GreasenUSA said:

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An attack on their "independence" lol.

Why does the news report the exact opposite of the truth?

It's an attack on their dependence.

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If they want to be truly independent they need to stop taking federal funding.

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Agreed. They need to use those super intelligent minds on their faculty to come up with a business model that doesn't require Federal funding to keep them above water, otherwise abide by the strings attached to your funding and get over yourselves.

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The interest on their multibillion dollar endowments alone could pay tuition and fund faculty.

they don't want the grift to stop

can someone summarize what the "extraordinary attack" is so I don't have to read the letter?

is it withholding funds from Harvard for not getting rid of DEI quotas? is it USAID and other cuts to wasteful bureaucracy? is it deporting a dude on a student visa at columbia who is actively rallying people to hate and destroy america and certain people based on religion?

Aggieland Proud said:

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The list of signees are pretty much exactly who you would have expected. For the most part, East Coast, West Coast, Ivy League, small liberal colleges, and a whole bunch of who-is-that type schools. SEC, SEC, SEC!

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Not even that many Ivy Leaguers on there. I saw Harvard and Duke. Most of the public universities were directional schools (I didn't know Connecticut was large enough to have an Eastern Connecticut State University), a lot of private liberal arts colleges, some seminaries, and then some "associations". I saw the AAU president signed it, but I didn't see a lot of AAU members sign it.

Still haven't seen an SEC or Big XII school. I didn't even see Stanford or Berkeley on the list (maybe I missed them)

In their haste to retain the money they steal from taxpayers, and try to give President Trump a black eye in the process, every one of these commie indoctrination centers have given Americans a Go To list of which schools to avoid, and cease sending money to. Let them rot in their commie-lovin' paradise as they go broke.

I haven't taken the time to look at this thread…. I will.

But my initial thought is this: having today's academia saying they are opposing you is in reality a HUGE endorsement!!! Sign me up to back that guy even more.

Every University should conduct their affairs as they see fit.
On the other hand the U.S. Government does not have to bankroll them.

Signed,

• Jonathan Alger, President, American University
• Suzanne Ames, President, Peninsula College
• Carmen Twillie Ambar, President, Oberlin College
• Denise A. Battles, President, SUNY Geneseo
• Ian Baucom, Incoming President, Middlebury College
• Allan Belton, President, Pacific Lutheran University
• Hubert Benitez, President, Saint Peter's University
• Joanne Berger-Sweeney, President, Trinity College (CT)
• Michael A. Bernstein, President, The College of New Jersey
• Audrey Bilger, President, Reed College
• Erik J. Bitterbaum, President, SUNY Cortland
• Sarah Bolton, President, Whitman College
• Mary H. Bonderoff, President, SUNY Delhi
• Eric Boynton, President, Beloit College
• Elizabeth H. Bradley, President, Vassar College
• Brian Bruess, President, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
• Adam Bush, President, College Unbound
• Alison Byerly, President, Carleton College
• Wendy Cadge, President and Professor of Sociology, Bryn Mawr College
• Nancy Cantor, President, Hunter College CUNY
• Alberto Jose Cardelle, President, SUNY Oneonta
• Brian W. Casey, President, Colgate University
• Ana Mari Cauce, Professor and President, University of Washington
• Andrea Chapdelaine, President, Connecticut College
• Thom D. Chesney, President, Southwestern College (NM)
• Bryan F. Coker, President, Maryville College
• Ronald B. Cole, President, Allegheny College
• Jennifer Collins, President, Rhodes College
• John Comerford, President, Otterbein University
• Marc C. Conner, President, Skidmore College
• Joy Connolly, President, American Council of Learned Societies
• La Jerne Terry Cornish, President, Ithaca College
• Grant Cornwell, President, Rollins College
• Isiaah Crawford, President, University of Puget Sound
• Gregory G. Dell'Omo, President, Rider University
• Kent Devereaux, President, Goucher College
• Jim Dlugos, Interim President, Landmark College
• Bethami Dobkin, President, Westminster University
• Harry Dumay, President, Elms College
• Christopher L. Eisgruber, President, Princeton University
• Michael A. Elliott, President, Amherst College
• Alexander Enyedi, President, SUNY Plattsburgh
• Jane Fernandes, President, Antioch College
• Damian J. Fernandez, President, Warren Wilson College
• David Fithian, President, Clark University
• Lisa C. Freeman, President, Northern Illinois University
• Robert Gaines, Acting President, Pomona College
• James Gandre, President, Manhattan School of Music
• Alan M. Garber, President, Harvard University
• Jay D. Gatrell, President, Eastern Illinois University
• Michael H. Gavin, President, Delta College
• Mark D. Gearan, President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Melissa Gilliam, President, Boston University
• Lane A. Glenn, President, Northern Essex Community College
• Jorge G. Gonzalez, President, Kalamazoo College
• Jonathan D. Green, President, Susquehanna University
• David A. Greene, President, Colby College
• William R. Groves, Chancellor, Antioch University
• Jeremy Haefner, Chancellor, University of Denver
• Yoshiko Harden, President, Renton Technical College
• Anne F. Harris, President, Grinnell College
• James T. Harris, President, University of San Diego
• Marjorie Hass, President, Council of Independent Colleges
• Richard J. Helldobler, President, William Paterson University
• Wendy Hensel, President, University of Hawaii
• James Herbert, President, University of New England
• Doug Hicks, President, Davidson College
• Mary Dana Hinton, President, Hollins University
• Jonathan Holloway, President, Rutgers University
• Robin Holmes-Sullivan, President, Lewis & Clark College
• Robert H. Huntington, President, Heidelberg University
• Nicole Hurd, President, Lafayette College
• Wolde-Ab Isaac, Chancellor, Riverside Community College District
• Karim Ismaili, President, Eastern Connecticut State University
• J. Larry Jameson, President, University of Pennsylvania
• Garry W. Jenkins, President, Bates College
• Paula A. Johnson, President, Wellesley College
• John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
• Cristle Collins Judd, President, Sarah Lawrence College
• David L. Kaufman, President, Capital University
• Colleen Perry Keith, President, Goldey-Beacom College
• Marisa Kelly, President, Suffolk University
• Julie Johnson Kidd, President, Endeavor Foundation
• Jonathan Koppell, President, Montclair State University
• Sally Kornbluth, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Julie Kornfeld, President, Kenyon College
• Michael I. Kotlikoff, President, Cornell University
• Paula Krebs, Executive Director, Modern Language Association
• Sunil Kumar, President, Tufts University
• Bobbie Laur, President, Campus Compact
• Frederick M. Lawrence, Secretary and CEO, Phi Beta Kappa Society
• Linda M. LeMura, President, Le Moyne College
• Hilary L. Link, President, Drew University
• Patricia A. Lynott, President, Rockford University
• Heidi Macpherson, President, SUNY Brockport
• John Maduko, President, Connecticut State Community College
• Lynn Mahoney, President, San Francisco State University
• Daniel Mahony, President, Southern Illinois University
• Maud S. Mandel, President, Williams College
• Christine Mangino, President, Queensborough Community College
• Amy Marcus-Newhall, President, Scripps College
• Felix V. Matos-Rodriguez, Chancellor, City University of New York (CUNY)
• Anne E. McCall, President, The College of Wooster
• Richard L. McCormick, Interim President, Stony Brook University
• Michael McDonald, President, Great Lakes Colleges Association
• James McGrath, President and Dean, Cooley Law School
• Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University
• Maurie McInnis, President, Yale University
• Elizabeth M. Meade, President, Cedar Crest College
• Scott D. Miller, President, Virginia Wesleyan University
• Jennifer Mnookin, Chancellor, University of WisconsinMadison
• Robert Mohrbacher, President, Centralia College
• Chris Moody, Executive Director, ACPA-College Student Educators International
• Tomas Morales, President, California State University San Bernardino
• Milton Moreland, President, Centre College
• Kathryn Morris, President, St. Lawrence University
• Ross Mugler, Board Chair and Acting President and CEO, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
• Krista L. Newkirk, President, University of Redlands
• Stefanie D. Niles, President, Cottey College
• Claire Oliveros, President, Riverside City College
• Robyn Parker, Interim President, Saybrook University
• Lynn Pasquerella, President, American Association of Colleges and Universities
• Laurie L. Patton, President, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Beth Paul, President, Nazareth University
• Christina Paxson, President, Brown University
• Rob Pearigen, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of the South
• Deidra Peaslee, President, Saint Paul College
• Eduardo M. Peñalver, President, Seattle University
• Ora Pescovitz, President, Oakland University
• Darryll J. Pines, President, University of Maryland
• Nicola Pitchford, President, Dominican University of California
• Kevin Pollock, President, Central Carolina Technical College
• Susan Poser, President, Hofstra University
• Paul C. Pribbenow, President, Augsburg University
• Vincent Price, President, Duke University
• Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk Network
• Wendy E. Raymond, President, Haverford College
• Christopher M. Reber, President, Hudson County Community College
• Andrew Rehfeld, President, Hebrew Union College
• Suzanne M. Rivera, President, Macalester College
• Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University
• James Ryan, President, University of Virginia
• Vincent Rougeau, President, College of the Holy Cross
• Kurt L. Schmoke, President, University of Baltimore
• Carol Geary Schneider, Acting Executive Director, Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition
• Sean M. Scott, President and Dean, California Western School of Law
• Zaldwaynaka Scott, President, Chicago State University
• Philip J. Sisson, President, Middlesex Community College (MA)
• Suzanne Smith, President, SUNY Potsdam
• Valerie Smith, President, Swarthmore College
• Paul Sniegowski, President, Earlham College
• Barbara R. Snyder, President, Association of American Universities
• Stephen Snyder, Interim President, Middlebury College
• Rachel Solemsaas, President, North Seattle College
• Weymouth Spence, President, Washington Adventist University
• Terri Standish-Kuon, President and CEO, Independent Colleges of Washington
• G. Gabrielle Starr, President, Pomona College
• Karen A. Stout, President, Achieving the Dream
• Tom Stritikus, President, Occidental College
• Julie Sullivan, President, Santa Clara University
• Aondover Tarhule, President, Illinois State University
• Glena Temple, President, Dominican University
• Steven J. Tepper. President, Hamilton College
• Kellye Y. Testy, CEO, Association of American Law Schools
• Tania Tetlow, President, Fordham University
• Strom C. Thacker, President, Pitzer College
• Scott L. Thomas, President, Sterling College
• Joel Towers, President, The New School
• Deborah Trautman, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Satish K. Tripathi, President, University at Buffalo, SUNY
• James Troha, President, Juniata College
• Kyaw Moe Tun, President, Parami University
• Brad Tyndall, President, Central Wyoming College
• LaTanya Tyson, President, Carolina Christian College
• Matthew P. vandenBerg, President, Ohio Wesleyan University
• James Vander Hooven, President, Mount Wachusett Community College
• Laura R. Walker, President, Bennington College
• Yolanda Watson Spiva, President, Complete College America
• Phil Weilerstein, President, VentureWell
• Michaele Whelan, President, Wheaton College
• Manya C. Whitaker, Interim President, Colorado College
• Julie A. Manley White, Chancellor and CEO, Pierce College
• Kim A. Wilcox, Chancellor, University of California, Riverside
• Sarah Willie-LeBreton, President, Smith College
• Safa R. Zaki, President, Bowdoin College

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My first guess would be Vanderbilt.

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That would have been my thought, too. But didn't see them on there.

Burdizzo said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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The list of signees are pretty much exactly who you would have expected. For the most part, East Coast, West Coast, Ivy League, small liberal colleges, and a whole bunch of who-is-that type schools. SEC, SEC, SEC!

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Not even that many Ivy Leaguers on there. I saw Harvard and Duke. Most of the public universities were directional schools (I didn't know Connecticut was large enough to have an Eastern Connecticut State University), a lot of private liberal arts colleges, some seminaries, and then some "associations". I saw the AAU president signed it, but I didn't see a lot of AAU members sign it.

Still haven't seen an SEC or Big XII school. I didn't even see Stanford or Berkeley on the list (maybe I missed them)

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There are 6 Ivy League schools on there

Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Pennsylvania
Cornell
Brown

ABATTBQ87 said:

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Signed,

• James Ryan, President, University of Virginia

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I knew we shouldn't have saved Matt Damon in France

I would think the dip**** factor of university presidents is way above the norm, as we are well aware.

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Burdizzo said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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The list of signees are pretty much exactly who you would have expected. For the most part, East Coast, West Coast, Ivy League, small liberal colleges, and a whole bunch of who-is-that type schools. SEC, SEC, SEC!

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Not even that many Ivy Leaguers on there. I saw Harvard and Duke. Most of the public universities were directional schools (I didn't know Connecticut was large enough to have an Eastern Connecticut State University), a lot of private liberal arts colleges, some seminaries, and then some "associations". I saw the AAU president signed it, but I didn't see a lot of AAU members sign it.

Still haven't seen an SEC or Big XII school. I didn't even see Stanford or Berkeley on the list (maybe I missed them)

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There are 6 Ivy League schools on there

Princeton
Harvard
Yale
U Pennsylvania
Cornell
Brown

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That shows how little Ivy League schools stand out in a group of directional and small private schools

O look, no schools my kids will be applying or going to.

Trump should put out a list of the value of their endowments and the amount owed by students who attended their university. My guess is that they racked up their endowments on the back of the students and the federal government.

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They are about to FAFO.

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I hope universities like Harvard and Columbia are somehow eventually forced to close and are completely razed to the ground. We can replace them with green friendly natural spaces. What has happened to those institutions is unforgivable. They have become wicked depraved hate fueled marxist institutions designed to lead our youth astray and there is no fixing it, aside from physically destroying them, and hoping that that wakes up many other institutions of higher learning.

It is disgusting what the godless liberals have done to these once great schools.

Thx. With a quick ctrl-F I see no Texas A&M, so that's a pleasant surprise.

Hopefully, any of these presidents who hold security clearances will quickly have those revoked, as this is a naked group of partisans, and they can then be treated as per the '51 intelligence officials' however the laws may allow.

Just follow the law, including strings on federal funds, as Holder/Obama/Garland/Biden(*)/Miguel Cardona were so quick to point out. "Deeply concerned" about Florida mask mandates. For starters.

If they want to be independent then they are okay with NOT receiving federal assistance correct?

That's a good enough reason to defund them.

Sounds like a ringing endorsement of him, to me.

WGAF what these pompous a-holes think??

Notre Dame is not on there. They have a Priest as President. The only Catholic Universities I spotted had non religious Presidents.

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Trump needs to find a way to eliminate government backed loans. Independence my ass. Universities leach off the government and in return they churn out indoctrinated morons.

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A true education examines and studies all ideas and viewpoints. Putting blinders on a school to force one view and way of thinking/doing is exactly what indoctrination is. Better to insist those Universities truly stay open to all and can't shut out conservatives or conservative viewpoints.

Here is the breakdown of the colleges and universities listed, organized by state based on the presidents provided:

**California**:
- California State University, San Bernardino (Tomas Morales)
- Dominican University of California (Nicola Pitchford)
- Occidental College (Tom Stritikus)
- Pomona College (G. Gabrielle Starr, Robert Gaines - Acting)
- Riverside City College (Claire Oliveros)
- Riverside Community College District (Wolde-Ab Isaac)
- San Francisco State University (Lynn Mahoney)
- Santa Clara University (Julie Sullivan)
- University of California, Riverside (Kim A. Wilcox)

**Colorado**:
- Colorado College (Manya C. Whitaker - Interim)
- University of Denver (Jeremy Haefner)

**Connecticut**:
- Connecticut College (Andrea Chapdelaine)
- Eastern Connecticut State University (Karim Ismaili)
- Trinity College (Joanne Berger-Sweeney)
- Connecticut State Community College (John Maduko)

**Delaware**:
- Goldey-Beacom College (Colleen Perry Keith)

**Florida**:
- Rollins College (Grant Cornwell)

**Hawaii**:
- University of Hawaii (Wendy Hensel)

**Illinois**:
- Beloit College (Eric Boynton) - Note: Located in Wisconsin, but listed here based on the president's association
- Chicago State University (Zaldwaynaka Scott)
- Eastern Illinois University (Jay D. Gatrell)
- Illinois State University (Aondover Tarhule)
- Northern Illinois University (Lisa C. Freeman)
- Southern Illinois University (Daniel Mahony)

**Indiana**:
- Earlham College (Paul Sniegowski)

**Iowa**:
- Grinnell College (Anne F. Harris)

**Kentucky**:
- Centre College (Milton Moreland)

***Maine**:
- Bates College (Garry W. Jenkins)
- Bowdoin College (Safa R. Zaki)
- Colby College (David A. Greene)
- University of New England (James Herbert)

**Maryland**:
- Goucher College (Kent Devereaux)
- University of Baltimore (Kurt L. Schmoke)
- University of Maryland (Darryll J. Pines)
- Washington Adventist University (Weymouth Spence)

**Massachusetts**:
- American International College (Hubert Benitez - Note: Saint Peter's University is in NJ, but listed here for clarity)
- Amherst College (Michael A. Elliott)
- Boston University (Melissa Gilliam)
- Bryn Mawr College (Wendy Cadge - Note: Located in PA, but listed here for the president's association)
- Clark University (David Fithian)
- Elms College (Harry Dumay)
- Harvard University (Alan M. Garber)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sally Kornbluth)
- Middlesex Community College (Philip J. Sisson)
- Mount Wachusett Community College (James Vander Hooven)
- Northern Essex Community College (Lane A. Glenn)
- Smith College (Sarah Willie-LeBreton)
- Suffolk University (Marisa Kelly)
- Wellesley College (Paula A. Johnson)
- Wheaton College (Michaele Whelan)
- Williams College (Maud S. Mandel)

**Michigan**:
- Delta College (Michael H. Gavin)
- Oakland University (Ora Pescovitz)

**Minnesota**:
- Augsburg University (Paul C. Pribbenow)
- Carleton College (Alison Byerly)
- College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (Brian Bruess)
- Macalester College (Suzanne M. Rivera)
- Saint Paul College (Deidra Peaslee)

**Missouri**:
- Cottey College (Stefanie D. Niles)
- Maryville College (Bryan F. Coker - Note: Located in TN, but listed here for clarity)

**New Jersey**:
- Drew University (Hilary L. Link)
- Hudson County Community College (Christopher M. Reber)
- Montclair State University (Jonathan Koppell)
- Princeton University (Christopher L. Eisgruber)
- Rider University (Gregory G. Dell'Omo)
- Saint Peter's University (Hubert Benitez)
- The College of New Jersey (Michael A. Bernstein)
- William Paterson University (Richard J. Helldobler)

**New Mexico**:
- Southwestern College (Thom D. Chesney)

**New York**:
- Colgate University (Brian W. Casey)
- Cornell University (Michael I. Kotlikoff)
- CUNY Hunter College (Nancy Cantor)
- CUNY Queensborough Community College (Christine Mangino)
- City University of New York (Felix V. Matos-Rodriguez - Chancellor)
- Fordham University (Tania Tetlow)
- Hamilton College (Steven J. Tepper)
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Mark D. Gearan)
- Hofstra University (Susan Poser)
- Ithaca College (La Jerne Terry Cornish)
- Kenyon College (Julie Kornfeld - Note: Located in OH, but listed here for clarity)
- Le Moyne College (Linda M. LeMura)
- Manhattan School of Music (James Gandre)
- Nazareth University (Beth Paul)
- Sarah Lawrence College (Cristle Collins Judd)
- Skidmore College (Marc C. Conner)
- St. Lawrence University (Kathryn Morris)
- Stony Brook University (Richard L. McCormick - Interim)
- SUNY Brockport (Heidi Macpherson)
- SUNY Cortland (Erik J. Bitterbaum)
- SUNY Delhi (Mary H. Bonderoff)
- SUNY Geneseo (Denise A. Battles)
- SUNY Oneonta (Alberto Jose Cardelle)
- SUNY Plattsburgh (Alexander Enyedi)
- SUNY Potsdam (Suzanne Smith)
- University at Buffalo, SUNY (Satish K. Tripathi)
- Vassar College (Elizabeth H. Bradley)

**North Carolina**:
- Carolina Christian College (LaTanya Tyson)
- Davidson College (Doug Hicks)
- Warren Wilson College (Damian J. Fernandez)

**Ohio**:
- Antioch College (Jane Fernandes)
- Capital University (David L. Kaufman)
- College of the Holy Cross (Vincent Rougeau - Note: Located in MA, but listed here for clarity)
- College of Wooster (Anne E. McCall)
- Dickinson College (John E. Jones III - Note: Located in PA, but listed here for clarity)
- Heidelberg University (Robert H. Huntington)
- Juniata College (James Troha)
- Kenyon College (Julie Kornfeld)
- Oberlin College (Carmen Twillie Ambar)
- Ohio Wesleyan University (Matthew P. vandenBerg)
- Otterbein University (John Comerford)

**Oregon**:
- Lewis & Clark College (Robin Holmes-Sullivan)
- Reed College (Audrey Bilger)

**Pennsylvania**:
- Allegheny College (Ronald B. Cole)
- Bryn Mawr College (Wendy Cadge)
- Dickinson College (John E. Jones III)
- Haverford College (Wendy E. Raymond)
- Lafayette College (Nicole Hurd)
- Swarthmore College (Valerie Smith)
- University of Pennsylvania (J. Larry Jameson)

**Rhode Island**:
- Brown University (Christina Paxson)
- College Unbound (Adam Bush)

**South Carolina**:
- Central Carolina Technical College (Kevin Pollock)

**Tennessee**:
- Maryville College (Bryan F. Coker)
- Rhodes College (Jennifer Collins)
- University of the South (Rob Pearigen)

**Utah**:
- Westminster University (Bethami Dobkin)

**Vermont**:
- Bennington College (Laura R. Walker)
- Landmark College (Jim Dlugos - Interim)
- Middlebury College (Ian Baucom - Incoming, Stephen Snyder - Interim)

**Virginia**:
- Hollins University (Mary Dana Hinton)
- University of Virginia (James Ryan)
- Virginia Wesleyan University (Scott D. Miller)

**Washington**:
- Centralia College (Robert Mohrbacher)
- North Seattle College (Rachel Solemsaas)
- Pacific Lutheran University (Allan Belton)
- Peninsula College (Suzanne Ames)
- Renton Technical College (Yoshiko Harden)
- Seattle University (Eduardo M. Peñalver)
- University of Puget Sound (Isiaah Crawford)
- University of Washington (Ana Mari Cauce)
- Washington Adventist University (Weymouth Spence - Note: Located in MD, but listed here for clarity)
- Whitman College (Sarah Bolton)

**Wisconsin**:
- Beloit College (Eric Boynton)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Jennifer Mnookin)

**Wyoming**:
- Central Wyoming College (Brad Tyndall)

**District of Columbia**:
- American University (Jonathan Alger)
- Trinity Washington University (Patricia McGuire)

**International/Other**:
- Parami University (Kyaw Moe Tun) - Location not specified, likely international
- Organizations without specific state affiliation:
- American Association of Colleges and Universities (Lynn Pasquerella)
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing (Deborah Trautman)
- American Association of Law Schools (Kellye Y. Testy)
- American Council of Learned Societies (Joy Connolly)
- Association of American Universities (Barbara R. Snyder)
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (Ross Mugler)
- Campus Compact (Bobbie Laur)
- Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition (Carol Geary Schneider)
- Council of Independent Colleges (Marjorie Hass)
- Independent Colleges of Washington (Terri Standish-Kuon)
- Modern Language Association (Paula Krebs)
- Phi Beta Kappa Society (Frederick M. Lawrence)
- Scholars at Risk Network (Robert Quinn)
- VentureWell (Phil Weilerstein)

LOL. Sarah Lawrence, Community colleges, Tufts, and a collection of blue state schools.

This needs to be published

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They are about to FAFO.

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this is how you know you're pushing the right buttons **** those mother****ers!

I have never even heard of most of those....at least now I can cross reference with schools my kids want to goto to place on the "No Go List"!

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Aggieland Proud said:

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The list of signees are pretty much exactly who you would have expected. For the most part, East Coast, West Coast, Ivy League, small liberal colleges, and a whole bunch of who-is-that type schools. SEC, SEC, SEC!

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There is one SEC school on the list.

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Which school is that?

Because in my 2 or 3 perusings of the list, I didn't see one.


As an aside, it was nice to see that none of the 3 schools I've attended were on the list...

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Sewanee will always be an SEC school.

Only one from my current beloved State of Florida. Rollins College is a hoity-toity rich kid school for kids who couldn't get into UF.

None of my three schools (A&M, Barry University, and UCF) are on there, so I'm happy!

jeremiahjt said:

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Ag with kids said:

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jeremiahjt said:

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Aggieland Proud said:

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The list of signees are pretty much exactly who you would have expected. For the most part, East Coast, West Coast, Ivy League, small liberal colleges, and a whole bunch of who-is-that type schools. SEC, SEC, SEC!

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There is one SEC school on the list.

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Which school is that?

Because in my 2 or 3 perusings of the list, I didn't see one.


As an aside, it was nice to see that none of the 3 schools I've attended were on the list...

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Sewanee will always be an SEC school.

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85 years ago...

So it's a group of hyper-liberal, taxpayer subsidized liberal arts cesspools. Their focus on Gender Studies and Social Justice degrees produce nothing but McDonald's cashiers and fry chefs. Americans are wising up to this idiocy and USAID-laundered money has dried up. So it's a good thing they're upset.

Phi Beta Kappa Society (Frederick M. Lawrence)

Interesting that this organization is on there as according to grok it doesnt recieve direct funding from the federal government and only receives funds from individual members in colleges.

The website says once you pay your initiation fee in college you are a member for life, so no continuing dues after college.

Kinda confused how it is affected by money not going to these colleges.


I did find that being a member helps you gain "rank and salary" in the federal government but supposedly doesnt guarantee it, I do not agree with it though. Kinda weird the WOKE crowd didn't abolish this but it is weird how it can have such an influence at all on paygrades within the government so this needs to go as an influence of hiring.

How Phi Beta Kappa Helps in Federal Hiring:

• Resume Enhancement: Membership signals academic excellence, intellectual curiosity, and a commitment to liberal arts education, which are valued in federal roles requiring analytical and communication skills.
• GS Level Upgrade: Per OPM's General Schedule Qualification Policies, honor society membership (like Phi Beta Kappa or Phi Kappa Phi) can qualify candidates for a higher GS level based on superior academic achievement, potentially increasing starting salary (e.g., GS-7 vs. GS-5 for baccalaureate degree holders).
• Networking: Phi Beta Kappa's network of over 500,000 members, including influential figures (e.g., 17 U.S. Presidents, 40 Supreme Court Justices), provides access to alumni connections and career events, such as those on the member-exclusive LinkedIn Job Board.
• Competitive Edge: Only 10% of U.S. colleges have Phi Beta Kappa chapters, and membership is offered to roughly 10% of graduating seniors in liberal arts and sciences, making it a rare and prestigious credential.

techno-ag said:

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

Quote:

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More than 100 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration's "unprecedented government overreach and political interference" with higher education the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against the government's extraordinary attack on their independence.

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It has long been known you take Uncle Sam's dollar, you dance to his tune. They were fine taking it with Dems in charge. Buckle up buttercups.

Here's the letter and signatories:

https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement

Not seeing A&M or tu on there.

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Damn CEOs of Universities. They hate it that their good life is now being taken away. Like corporate CEOs. They will fight back.