For years, a lot of people, including the neoliberal Democrats, wanted to run higher education "like a business." This was constantly in the conversation when I started as a professor.
The performance by public school system chiefs in front of the Republican bullies was impressive. It shows that the way to handle Elise Stefanik and such is the same way.
I am very surprised to find myself writing a blog post with this title, but everyone should always be open to changing their mind when they are presented with new.
A couple of historians muse on the university budgeting process and how no matter what the administrators do, the goal is to eviscerate the humanities, which is the reason university.
Like the case of the Virginia candidate who was discovered to also be a sex worker, I really don't care what people do sexually. I mean this in the most.
As CNN and the New York Times eat out of Chris Rufo's lap and move toward getting the president of Harvard fired for not throwing out students who care about.
As much as I personally loathe defending anyone in university administration, especially at schools like Harvard, it is important to note that whereas Penn completely caved to its right-wing donors.
There's lots of money in universities. So when you don't believe in educating students, that money seems like a good thing to steal, at least if you are Ron DeSantis..
