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| Milos, Greece, on July 19, 2025 |
There’s a drift towards seeing the Penn and Columbia University deals with the Trump Administration as templates for settlements across higher ed. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls the Columbia Agreement a “road map for elite universities,” likely meaning Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Princeton and even Harvard, which have all be subjected to the Administration’s unlawful funding freezes.This would be a great way to further degrade the entire sector, and must be blocked.
A bit of background: When you are the weaker party as a long-term cultural cold war becomes a hot institutional war, you must create a public understanding of who you really are. It should include something like the following elements:
