How many "r"s are there in “strawberry”?
… I don’t know!
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Yep… if these guys get their way, the only schools to offer phds in fields like sociology or history will be elite schools that only the very few and ideologically vetted will be allowed to go to. 
After all, who needs to understand how human societies work… that’s only knowledge for the few, not for the rest of us who really should be spending our time serving our betters, not thinking about the world around us… /s
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Oh the AI.
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Jesus fucking Christ…
I’m gonna be saying that a LOT in the next few years aren’t I… 
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But the downturn isn’t just a problem for universities and colleges. It’s a looming crisis for the economy, with fewer graduates eventually coming through the pipeline to fill jobs that require college educations, even as international rivals increase the proportions of their populations with degrees.
Perfect time for the fascist idiots to cut funding for education. God above, we are so fucked…
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And to deport millions of immigrants (and supposed immigrants).
Fucking idiots.
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University of West Florida braces for leadership changes
https://www.wuwf.org/local-news/2025-01-08/university-of-west-florida-braces-for-leadership-changes
The University of West Florida is bracing for significant changes in leadership following a wave of new appointments to its Board of Trustees.
Over the past month, the Florida Board of Governors replaced three trustees — Suzanne Lewis, Jill Singer, and Stephanie White — with Tallahassee insiders. Then, this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis named five more to the board. The majority have no significant ties to Northwest Florida, and at least three have been affiliated with right-leaning think tanks. This includes Scott Yenor, a political science professor affiliated with the Claremont Institute, and Adam Kissel, a Heritage Foundation fellow.
In a statement to National Review, DeSantis said the appointments were intended to, “break the status quo and … refocus the university on the core mission of education.”
Yenor, in particular, has drawn national attention for his critiques of feminism and higher education. Speaking at the National Conservatism Conference three years ago, Yenor called for a “sexual counterrevolution” and described career-oriented women as, quote, “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome.”
“We need to de-emphasize our colleges and universities,” he told the audience. “… Almost everything in these indoctrination camps complicates the male-female dance.” He concluded the talk by suggesting that “the effort to erase the old standard of public men and private woman has been a mistake.”
emphasis mine
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Yep. They are pushing women out of the public sphere… I hope all these women who voted for Trump and DeSantis are happy not being full citizens. This what they voted for… bunch of fucking Serena Joys…
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Right? As if most families can even afford to have a “private” woman/“housewife.”
Plus, “private”? Did that one come straight from some Taliban handbook?
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More like 19th century cult of true womanhood discourse… 
But even at the height of that (or during the era of republican motherhood) very few women could inhabit the “private” sphere only…
It’s a case of groups like the Taliban claiming to be going along with sharia, but really embracing western modes of thinking more than anything else. There certainly was a system of women in seclusion in some parts of Islamic society, historically, but the whole concept of a harem was class bound, and really a place of power within ruling families.
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Really? Wow, that’s news. I’ve always thought extreme suppression of women’s rights was its own manifestation of Islamic fundamentalism. Have you read any good sources on how it’s instead an embrace of western patriarchal restrictions of women?
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