Any university that accepts federal funds is beholden to the federal government.
Historically, the government and university systems have worked symbiotically to produce useful technologies and professional experts for each others’ benefits.
This isn’t simply cash-for-service. There has historically been a big revolving door between state agencies and academic institutions.
The Trump Admin is both cutting financial support to universities and purging state officials with friendly school ties.
This is not just because of the Trump administration. If a university wants federal money, it has to follow certain rules for that money. Its not as symbiotic as you would think. The government can fund research from other, non-academic, institutions.
It makes sense that the rules aren’t arbitrary; e.g., university must accommodate the ADA. But, as we’re seeing these days, nothing stops them from imposing new rules; e.g., Executive Order 13985.
If a university wants federal money, it has to follow certain rules for that money.
You’re just describing a grant. This goes well beyond the rules surrounding grant applications. Kidnapping students off of campus and shipping them to black sites in defiance of court orders is entirely outside the scope of securing university research grant funding.
I work at a university that is also part of a state system with their own rules (also driven by federal regulations).
You’re conflating the government coming on campus and exerting the power of the law with universities having to comply with said laws. And yes, universities will comply because they have no choice.
Historically, the government and university systems have worked symbiotically to produce useful technologies and professional experts for each others’ benefits.
This isn’t simply cash-for-service. There has historically been a big revolving door between state agencies and academic institutions.
The Trump Admin is both cutting financial support to universities and purging state officials with friendly school ties.
This is not just because of the Trump administration. If a university wants federal money, it has to follow certain rules for that money. Its not as symbiotic as you would think. The government can fund research from other, non-academic, institutions.
It makes sense that the rules aren’t arbitrary; e.g., university must accommodate the ADA. But, as we’re seeing these days, nothing stops them from imposing new rules; e.g., Executive Order 13985.
You’re just describing a grant. This goes well beyond the rules surrounding grant applications. Kidnapping students off of campus and shipping them to black sites in defiance of court orders is entirely outside the scope of securing university research grant funding.
I work at a university that is also part of a state system with their own rules (also driven by federal regulations).
You’re conflating the government coming on campus and exerting the power of the law with universities having to comply with said laws. And yes, universities will comply because they have no choice.
Is that what they’re doing? Quite a few judges seem to believe differently