link will work for everyone Harvard Explores New Center for Conservative Scholarship Amid Trump Attacks The Ivy League school has discussed an effort to ‘support viewpoint diversity’ with potential donors, says it ‘will not be partisan’ https://www.wsj.com/us-news/educati...a?st=RVPxNk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink excerpt: Central to changing campus culture is controlling who is hired and what they teach. Harvard President Garber has said the school won’t cede that authority. An institute would open the possibility of hiring new faculty focused on classically liberal ideas which, on many of today’s campuses, are often read as conservative. Those ideas, in turn, could reinvigorate debate, which even Harvard administrators say has atrophied. more at the link
@Salvy @basso @pgabriel @Rocketeer @Space Ghost @jo mama so a normal scholarship for kids with good grades and a high SAT score
Is college actually worth it anymore? Gen Z isn’t sure, study says https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/lifestyle/this-is-what-gen-z-really-thinks-about-their-college-degree/
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump The White House had canceled more than $400 million in research funding to the university, saying it had failed to protect Jewish students from harassment. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare In-house counsel seems to think these are pretty favorable terms for Columbia given the extent of the Title VI problems Columbia has had
updated assessment one day later: the agreement is out and folks who've read it say that "Columbia is doing a good job of PR," because even though reporting (like above article in NYT) makes it sound like Columbia didn't give away the store, they in fact, "gave away the store."
