The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other policies.

The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    most of them gave up thier specific fields to be nothing more than a c-suite, or MBA person would. they probably couldnt hack it in thier field so they end up as a administrator. the PHD is irrelevant if your not actually using it for its intended purposes.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Current interim President:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Armstrong

      As an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UPenn, Armstrong co-developed and directed the first and second-year medical course “Clinical Decision Making.” In recognition of her teaching, she received the 2003 Leonard Berwick Award, awarded to “a member of the medical faculty who in his or her teaching most effectively fuses basic science and clinical medicine.”

      While continuing her research into cancer control, genetic testing for cancer susceptibility, and racial disparities in cancer outcomes, she earned the Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award for “her research program that seeks to elucidate the complex relationships among the social environment, health care use, and health outcomes.” In 2006, Armstrong was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation for her records of scholarly achievement in biomedical research.

      By 2011, Armstrong and Mitchell Schnall received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to create the Penn Center for Innovation in Personalized Breast Cancer Screening.

      they probably couldnt hack it in thier field so they end up as a administrator.

      Sure, Jan. Also, it’s “couldn’t” and “their.”