Imagine paying out the bum, bury yourself in student loans to get a degree, and the uni just revokes it retroactively.
Absolute insanity. Do the students get a full refund on their education?
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This is a great way to create people who have nothing to lose. Bonus, these were already people who were activists and doing something. Kicking the hornets nest might be an apt comparison.
I want to know how a university can just revoke a degree after the fact. Unfortunately the article didn't say a damn thing about it, not even how many they actually revoked.
Just keep using the degree. Odds are they don’t actually check unless it’s a background check sort of job.
temporary degree revocations
What in the everliving fuck does this even mean!?
It means that you are temporarily hireable until the degree is reinstated.
I'm assuming you meant unhireable right? Just such a weird ass punishment, like basically an adult timeout?
I have had multiple employers tell me that my degrees make me overqualified, so idk, apparently having a degree hurts as much as it helps these days
That is kind of a hilarious way to look at this, Columbia is actually trying to help these students find jobs!
If you can’t see that this is the end of the First Amendment you need a cane and dog.
the dog is for biting them in the junk, and the cane is for beating the everloving shit out of them.
because they are willful blind, collaborative pieces of shit.
Wait....what if I can see it as the end? Do I get to ditch my cane? Or do I need to get a dog to go with the cane now?
Immediately dropped to their knees!
I'm just going to say I hope for things and leave it at that.
I too have great hopes.
All 22 of these students should receive honorary degrees from universities abroad and from every US university that isn't full of cowards.
All 22 of these students should get their money back
More like a multi-million dollar level compensation for each for loss of fees, their time wasted (at university and which they can never get back), the opportunities they lost (if they were studying they weren't pursuing other opportunities) and any and all emotional damage from the ordeal.
(And I wouldn't at all be surprised if a good lawyer gets them exactly that)
If I were a Columbia student right now I'd be leaving next semester and seeing I could get refunds for this semester.
Your prestige means nothing.
I hope there are enough students who are willing to take such a bold step together to make their point.
These dumbasses really think capitulation will make the fascists go away? That's never how it works. Now you've emboldened them to go further, you utter idiots.
The administration has chosen to join the fascists rather than stand up for principles. When we get to de-MAGAfication, they'll get purged too. And we will have to get to that, since the system is too compromised to fix itself.
And while we're at it: roll back every Trump appointment, executive order and law to January 1, 2016. Roll back any judicial decision made by a Trump-appointed judge. Review the convictions of anyone prosecuted under Trump's DOJ or MAGA-run state AG's and exonerate any who didn't commit a crime. Ban every appointee from ever holding public office again. Remove the law license of any lawyer who joined or supported MAGA. Remove the executives of any corporation or non-profit that openly aligned itself with Trump. Investigate any media outlet suspected of channeling hostile foreign propaganda, and if culpable, shut it down and try its executives for treason. Ban any foreign fascist politicians aligned with MAGA or with Russia from ever entering the US.
That's the start of a manifesto.
I mean it's Columbia. They have a history of this. They aren't capitulating they are using an excuse to do what they wanted to anyways.
This is being driven by the board, not the faculty. The board supports the fascism.
These demands are wild.
This included placing the distinguished Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under an “academic receivership” for a minimum of five years and installing a new department chair. This would involve the university ceding control of the department and an outsider chair that could be appointed by the government to run it, potentially overseeing everything from curriculum design to the hiring and firing of faculty.
Freest country on earth, with government mandated positions in academia.
Very sad to see this for the students.
Pussies
Are all the students empoc