Only in so much as it aids and placates the politics of their largest donors, or their sense of prestige/relevance. So it once again comes down to wealth, and politics. Be it the class interests of the wealthy, or the cultural interests of positioning.
But the days of being bastions of any true intellectual position are gone, they’re now profit interested businesses subject to the whims of management. Not the academic staff.
I guess this is a very English-world centered view. In France, public universities are not like that. I guess other social countries have similar universities.
Public unis in the US are quite rock solid in any state that prioritizes it’s people. Along with being fractions of the cost. My niece is getting her bachelor’s at the State Uni of New York as a resident for ~8k a year.
Worse they’re complicit. Most of them revolk housing and enrollment of any international students or staff targetted by ICE. They just roll right over people as soon as the administration tells them to.
That’s not what real leftwing intellectual opposition to Trump does, it’s tacit collaboration with the administration.
Some top universities are also bastions of left opposition and intellectuals, I don’t know about Oxford but you can’t put all of them in the same bag.
Only in so much as it aids and placates the politics of their largest donors, or their sense of prestige/relevance. So it once again comes down to wealth, and politics. Be it the class interests of the wealthy, or the cultural interests of positioning.
But the days of being bastions of any true intellectual position are gone, they’re now profit interested businesses subject to the whims of management. Not the academic staff.
They’re businesses. Wealthy political businesses.
…and NOT intellectual institutions.
I guess this is a very English-world centered view. In France, public universities are not like that. I guess other social countries have similar universities.
Public unis in the US are quite rock solid in any state that prioritizes it’s people. Along with being fractions of the cost. My niece is getting her bachelor’s at the State Uni of New York as a resident for ~8k a year.
I don’t believe it. If they exist they have no influence, anyways.
Worse they’re complicit. Most of them revolk housing and enrollment of any international students or staff targetted by ICE. They just roll right over people as soon as the administration tells them to.
That’s not what real leftwing intellectual opposition to Trump does, it’s tacit collaboration with the administration.
Columbia in particular has opened their students doors for ICE: https://archive.is/YI6wI
…and 800 students and staff across the US have gone into ICE custody without protection or resistance from their universities.