New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg predicted she was president Donald Trump he will use his time in power to crack down on leftists and liberals in academia.
“Many Americans, including many who did not vote for Trump, will not mourn the end of tedious corporate training and have little sympathy for the radical student protesters,” Goldberg wrote in article titled“Trump’s Plan to Take Down the Academic Left.”
However, the journalist lamented that the “climate of liberal resignation” will only make things “vicious”. She continued, “Under the guise of rolling in unpopular left-wing excesses, the Trump team is attempting to assert political control over American higher education, and it appears to be pushing against an open door.”
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New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg predicted that President Donald Trump would use his time in office to crack down on leftists and liberals in academia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Goldberg argued that some of Trump’s “comes” to liberal academia will be disguised as a “response to anti-Semitism on campus,” which has become an increasingly divisive issue on college campuses after Israel-hama war.
The columnist also pointed to Trump’s focus on education as one of his first executive orders when he took office, including setting up “swift investigations into DEI in the private sector, directing federal agencies to identify up to nine investigative targets among major institutions, including colleges and universities Universities ‘with endowments over a billion dollars,’ a category that includes all the Ivies. “
“The second executive order lays the groundwork for deporting foreign students and professors engaged in anti-Israel activism, which Trump promised during his campaign,” Goldberg wrote. “It calls for ensuring that aliens otherwise present in the United States” are not hostile to its citizens, culture, government, or institutions and “do not advocate, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security. ‘”
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Goldberg summed up Trump’s early executive orders and rhetoric against DEI and other leftist policies in higher education as an “opening salvo” in an attempt to weaken the left in academia. (Trump campaign)
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Goldberg summed up Trump’s early executive orders and rhetoric against DEI and other leftist policies in higher education as “the opening salvo in a campaign to dismantle academic left. ”
“There’s kind of a multifront threat right now about whether you can express views that are unpopular with people in the White House and executive agencies and still enjoy protection First Amendment About academic freedom,” Will Creeley, legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told Goldberg.
Trump signed an executive order upon taking office that repealed one President Biden signed on his first day in office, “advancing racial equality and supporting disaffected communities through the federal government.”
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Trump also signaled legal moves against DEI in the federal government, including a second executive order against DEI, “ending the government’s radical and wasteful DEI programs and preferring to.”
