There are many ways to pay homage and give back to the schools that brought you up. There’s the obvious donating, there’s volunteering — hell, giving your school a shout out on social media even counts for something. But playing a part in keeping billions of dollars in federal funding from your alma mater’s hands is a very strange way to show school spirit. That said, the Trump administration has a history of trying to extract fealty from whoever engages with it. From The Boston Globe:
May Mailman, a 2015 Harvard Law School graduate, didn’t expect to find herself one day representing the White House on the other side of a high-stakes negotiation with her alma mater. But as a senior policy official for President Trump, Mailman has become a point person on the administration’s campaign to bring higher education to heel.
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“I think it should be the case that our vision and their vision is the same, which is: How do we create the next generation of great leaders, science, and medicine,” Mailman said.
You’d think a Harvard grad would be smart enough to know that the answer is decidedly not gutting education at all levels. Besides the obvious harm that withholding billions of federal dollars for research will do for disciplines like science and medicine:
The Trump administration is also withholding $6.8B dollars that was already earmarked for K-12 education. Unless creating the next generation of leaders in science and medicine means paying a lot of money for foreign specialists to do the thinking for us, rapidly gutting funding at the kindergarten through post-graduate levels seems like the direct opposite of what needs to be done. But what do I know — I’m no Harvard grad, I merely graduated from WashU. Go Bears!
Harvard Law Grad Has A Hand In Slapping University Around [The Boston Globe]
States Sue Trump For Money Congress Already Allotted To Public Education
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
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There are many ways to pay homage and give back to the schools that brought you up. There’s the obvious donating, there’s volunteering — hell, giving your school a shout out on social media even counts for something. But playing a part in keeping billions of dollars in federal funding from your alma mater’s hands is a very strange way to show school spirit. That said, the Trump administration has a history of trying to extract fealty from whoever engages with it. From The Boston Globe:
May Mailman, a 2015 Harvard Law School graduate, didn’t expect to find herself one day representing the White House on the other side of a high-stakes negotiation with her alma mater. But as a senior policy official for President Trump, Mailman has become a point person on the administration’s campaign to bring higher education to heel.
…
“I think it should be the case that our vision and their vision is the same, which is: How do we create the next generation of great leaders, science, and medicine,” Mailman said.
You’d think a Harvard grad would be smart enough to know that the answer is decidedly not gutting education at all levels. Besides the obvious harm that withholding billions of federal dollars for research will do for disciplines like science and medicine:
The Trump administration is also withholding $6.8B dollars that was already earmarked for K-12 education. Unless creating the next generation of leaders in science and medicine means paying a lot of money for foreign specialists to do the thinking for us, rapidly gutting funding at the kindergarten through post-graduate levels seems like the direct opposite of what needs to be done. But what do I know — I’m no Harvard grad, I merely graduated from WashU. Go Bears!
Harvard Law Grad Has A Hand In Slapping University Around [The Boston Globe]
States Sue Trump For Money Congress Already Allotted To Public Education
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.
