The University president states that it is necessary to speak against Trump, he warns of ‘Tirana’

Wesleyan University President, Michael Roth, criticized Republican leaders such as Vice -President of JD Vance and Governor Florida Ron Desantis for using their elite educational credentials for attacking the same universities who have succeeded them.

“The story of American higher education was abducted by people who benefited from it. They enjoyed part of their lives because of the education they had. But they go out and then somehow pull out the ladder,” Roth said Washington Post in an interview published on Tuesday.

Vance and Desantis, graduates at the Yale Law and Harvard Law Faculty, in more speech they opposed elite universities and Interviewing for printing. After the resignation of former President Harvard Claudine Gay from her post after several controversy like her response to student protests, Vance said on X that Elite gets prestigious jobs for “confirmed boxes, not because they have achieved something amazing or achieved something significant.”

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“This is now the purpose of our elite universities, to give credentials that signal false merit, not to rely on real excellence, “Vance continued.

Roth claimed that universities should resist the Republicans like the president Donald Trump and Vance from the distraction of their task of students’ education.

“The leaders in senior educational institutions should be advocated for their values,” Roth said. “Not to argue with Donald Trump or JD Vance. We should be advocated for our values ​​because we said we have believed in them in recent decades.”

Roth also defended the role of the US university system in the country’s success, saying that “[t]Here are so many ways in which American higher education has contributed to the culture of innovation and discoveries in this country. “He told the post that countries like China were trying to copy the United States” by building a university after the University. ”

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While Trump signals the possible dismantling of the Ministry of Education, Roth said that he would continue to be opposed to the Republicans who intend to interfere with higher education, followed by the law.

“I laugh because, of course, I’m nervous,” Roth told Post. “This is an administration that gives a priority of loyalty and attacks people who stand, not against them, but for their own ideals and missions. It’s an authoritarian game book. To hide – Wesleyan is a small school – maybe they would never notice us . “

“But that’s how tyranny was established in a country. … I’m a professor, a teacher. I’m not looking for problems,” Roth said. “But I would feel ashamed that I did not speak for the values ​​that led my institution and many others.”

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