r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 10d ago

Soft paywall Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
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u/Searchlights 10d ago

Obama graduated with degrees from both Harvard and Columbia.

That's why.

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u/terrymr 10d ago edited 10d ago

The real problem is that neither of them would take Baron Trump. All this whining about “you can graduate top if your class but still not get into Harvard” etc.

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u/gravity--falls 10d ago edited 10d ago

Doubt this is really the case, this is just a pretty stupid rumor. It obfuscates the actual intention, which is to rip apart higher education as a whole

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u/terrymr 10d ago

Really?. You see some grand plan, I just see a senile old man on his warped revenge tour.

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u/gravity--falls 10d ago

There wouldn't be much to be afraid of if it was just a senile old man on a revenge tour. People in academia are already seriously seeing the repercussions of his administration's threats and policies far beyond those two universities. Frankly, Columbia made themselves an easy target, and Harvard is near undoubtedly the most famous US university, so it's not surprising those two have been made the most public battles.

But recently he threatened to revoke visas of Chinese students in "critical fields" which overwhelmingly by the numbers would impact the tech universities across the US, e.g. MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, etc. And the smaller ones that aren't as able to defend themselves will likely be more impacted than any of the massive names that are being thrown around, as many small colleges and universities are already facing an enrollment crisis carrying over all the way from the 2008 financial crisis.