[X.com] by @Musa_alGharbi
I'm struck that this guidance includes and mandates the imposition of many new ideological litmus tests while also demanding that the university, "abolish all criteria, preferences, and practices, whether mandatory or optional, throughout its admissions and hiring practices, that function as ideological litmus tests."
How on earth is a university supposed to comply with the demands articulated below without policies that function as ideological litmus tests? I mean, they explicitly call for reducing or eliminating "activist" scholars, and for mandating the hire of people on the basis of ideology if a department is perceived to have too little ideological diversity...
No wonder it was rejected. It's literally impossible to actually comply, because the demands are, themselves, blatantly contradictory.
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NEW: The Trump admin sent an updated list of demands to Harvard on Friday (April 11), which significantly expanded on the earlier letter it sent on April 3. This apparently prompted Harvard to reject the admin's demands outright, even with hundreds of millions of dollars on the https://t.co/zO1yHbCWLb
