Don’t go to a school that will withhold your degree for exercising your first amendment right. You never know what speech will be deemed unacceptable next or how far they will cave to keep federal funding.

They caved.

They started a new B.S. in B.S.

Enrollment ⬇️

Boycott Columbia

The board members now get free "I'm Trump's bitch." pins. They could roll that out to faculty and students.

I seriously thought you were talking about Columbia House Music Club.

I was wondering if there's ever been an occasion that put one of these universities' Ivy League status at risk. I don't think people are going to be as proud to say they graduated from Columbia after this - at least not while it's still occupied by this regime.

Students to graduate with a degree of Shame..

A friend who works for Columbia told me that he's not sure if he were looking to leave the role and the school at this point if the name carries the weight he'd have thought in academic circles he'd look to remain in.

Glad I'm not an alum. I'd be ashamed.

Claire’s kids have to go somewhere

TRUE.............. NADA!

A degree from Columbia is going to be worth a lot less now that it has agreed to just be an outlet for Republican propaganda.

If I were a Columbia professor (with tenure), I'd introduce our new "non-woke" classes by segregating every legacy admit and child of a donor to The Rapist's campaign to one end of the room, explaining I don't need to waste time teaching them, because they're just there for the credential.

A regression Baptist education in New York?

Huge debt hanging over graduates?

sad

I am ashamed of my Alma Mater.

I'm glad my mother didn't live to see this. She was so proud of that degree.

I've never cared as much about where a lawyer got their degree. I would never EVER be represented by a Columbia lawyer. Clearly their law school is complete dogshit and the lawyers they train there are total cowards who can't even defend THEMSELVES.

The list of colleges my daughter won't be applying to in a few years is growing quickly.

I feel bad for the Columbia class of '23 who are going to spend the rest of their careers frantically pointing at the "vintage pre-crazy Tesla" bumper sticker on their diplomas.

2023? We're in 2025...

The class of '25 doesn't have the excuse is the implication I think.

Except the class of 2025 was almost certainly too far along in their degree programs to transfer by the time all this craziness from Columbia began. More than likely '23 was just an arbitrary choice.

You'd be totally justified in saying I'm being weaselly right now but I'm not the OP I was just compulsively saying WHY they probably picked that year not that they were right to.

I’m certainly not in the anti-intellectual camp but damn it really seems like many supposedly super smart folks continuously and very publicly beclown themselves these days. I get that he’s the president. But he’s a weak man that’s easily distracted and light-speed stupid. You can’t outmaneuver him?

Pulitzer prizes for one. Trump likely has a hardon for them because of the ones they awarded for coverage of Russian election interference.

Good point.

It is going to entertaining to watch the quality metrics of students admitted to Columbia collapse. The brightest student will not like what they did, and will have many other excellent options.

I don’t understand why these institutions didn’t band together for solidarity instead of instantly caving. Probably has something to do with being virtual hedge funds with a side hustle in education.

Prestigious universities are just a networking scheme and a scam. The undergraduate education is not $300k better than a good public university. Influence not knowledge, Columbia just proved my point nicely.

Yes, but unfortunately, we do not live in a meritocracy. We live in a late-stage capitalist sewer, and the fat rats have all the cheese.

*real estate holding ventures

And in some places outside the Ivies, sports teams with a training centre.

Capitalism makes everything better 😬

Ah so I see you have visited THE Ohio State University

Now that Ollie’s is closed it doesn’t even offer proximity to Ollie’s

It's a nice shade of blue. That's all I've got.

They employ some very talented scholars and they let you ask them questions.

The damage done by this institution to its reputation, as well as its graduates, will fk with this institution for years to come. If I’m a student making a choice between Columbia and any other Ivy League school, well, Columbia loses.

it used to offer a truly good education and a diverse and talented student body. Now? An incoming class less than 80% white would shock me.

As long as you graduated before 2024, a degree from there still has value. But now that they've attached a date of complete change, it should really be called as Trump University.

Well, he had a fake university and got caught, so this is his way to jave another trump university without having to do anything. They should call it Trump's Grifter University now!!

What will this do to Columbia's future capital campaigns, etc.?

Can’t wait for them to enjoy the outcome of their “strict merit” rule. Ladies, we have arrived (apparently). aibm.org/research/boy...

Really loving this SAT optional/not required trend. Go get it, ladies. Columbia is yours for the taking (apparently).

A safe space for zionists

If I had a kid going to Columbia, I’d snatch them out in a heartbeat.

"didn't you go to college?" "yes" "where?" "...i'd rather not say"

And seemingly ignoring the fact that they aren’t the only hot dog stand on the block.

America is just Chuck full of fake schools so sad

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Seems like a good clear example that a lot of these schools ain’t what they claim to be after all

My colleague's kid got into Columbia after working his ass off during high school. He was really excited. This has got to be a gut punch.

as they say in Hawaii, 'shame fo' da family' 😐

Excellent people to learn from which is kinda the point of school.

Yeah my respect is diminishing.

I bet Barton could get in now.

At this point a Columbia degree is as useful as a Trump University degree.

Particularly when they have a president who majored in Russian History without, evidently learning anything about the run to to WWII.

Anyone who has watched Viktor Orban's assault on democracy should be screaming about this.

Can’t imagine why a New York real estate mogul would want to use the power of the federal government to depress the value of all that prime upper west side property

Columbia fucked itself when it caved. Couldn't pay me to go there now. Hopefully Harvard stands strong!

Columbia, the “bastion of free speech” lifted its skirts & exposed their dirty underwear No one should apply to Columbia There are plenty of other universities that one can apply to who won’t cower to a fascist authoritarian unstable “genius” who is the antithesis of everything this country values

I feel bad for the Columbia alumni.

Columbia has dug their own grave. No one is going to want a degree from there except the magat cult. However, since the school is located in NYC, doubt many magats will want to go to a school nestled in a massive city that hates magats 😂

I guess there are a lot of people who aren’t paying attention who will go to school there anyway. But I can’t help but think that even if they really do get their federal funding back (and that’s a big if), this is really going to hurt them in the long run.