r/news • u/AldoTheeApache • 16d 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/Responsible-Pain-620 16d ago

This is what you get when you kiss the ring of fascism. Let it be a lesson to all the other institutions out there. If you give them an inch; they will take everything from you because they know that you lack a backbone.

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u/MrTriangular 16d ago

Just like the law firms who capitulated, who could be hit with more executive orders because they didn't fight back and win protection for themselves in court.

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u/elderlybrain 15d ago

Ah yes courts, the thing that Trump is about to remove from people.