Walkaway from a group C. Peter Wagner dubbed one of the main paradigms of the New Apostolic Reformation. Been warning of the takeover since 2004. Also a veteran US higher ed alt ac. Old stuff still on ex-twitter. Psudonym due to years behind enemy lines.
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Itās the main tool for INVESTIGATING. Get rid of due process, accuse and penalize, and voila! No need for the OCR!
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8/ I'm definitely NOT defending LSU's former president who eventually lost his job over mishandling of sexual abuse allegations. But he's not wrong about the admission criteria. LSU is currently 13% Black. Louisiana's population is 30% Black. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/king-al...
7/ This isn't hyperbole. After the worst of the discriminatory requirements were rolled back, LSU briefly implemented "holistic admissions." The state pushed back-hard. If LSU couldn't do it, no one could. There's nothing bigger in Louisiana than LSU.
6/ There was no choice but to comply with the requirements. Very bad things would happen to our little institution if we didn't. I risked my career with my psudonymous blog and my other parapolitical activities fighting back.
5/ I invite anyone wanting to take a deep dive into the war against the Jindal admin and its discriminatory admission criteria to check out my old blog. At the time I was an admissions director at a public HBCU. We were the front of the front line. lahigheredconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/u...
4/ This is oversimplifying things I know, but weaponizing math SAT/ACT scores to keep out students is an extremely effective tool. I saw it first hand in Louisiana after its higher ed deseg agreement expired. 85% of Black students were briefly inelig for public U admission in the Jindal admin.
3/ Back in the bad old days, there were 2 ways higher ed institutions kept out students they didn't want. Straight up segregation, esp in the Jim Crow South. Or entrance exams, which provided the veneer of merit. And even now, there are racial gaps esp in math. www.brookings.edu/articles/sat...
2/ What does "remedial math" (which hasn't been called that for almost 20 years, but okay...) have to do with anti-semitism? Well, nothing. But it is part of the regime's fight against DEI (aka civil rights) since they argue that equity is discriminatory. Math is a proxy for merit. Let me unpack.
1/Three words in the regime's latest salvo against Harvard reveal that their supposed investigation has NOTHING to do with anti-semitism or civil rights, but is cover for rolling back civil rights under the guise of merit. "Offering remedial math." www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
8/ The Chronicle reported more details on this, including confirming that the current MSCHE action as listed on Columbia's SAS is related to the USED allegations of anti-semitism. So yes, the regime is trying to strongarm MSCHE's board because #NoDueProcess www.chronicle.com/article/no-t...
7/ Here is the USED press release prompting the IHE article. www.ed.gov/about/news/p... MSCHE's board meets this month (see the SAS) and this is a blatant attempt by the regime to tell MSCHE what to do. This isn't how it works. /end
6/ This action which involved 4 out of MSCHE's 7 standards included an evaluation visit. MSCHE gave Columbia 2 weeks to respond which is a very short turnaround time for them, but in that time period USED decided to claim noncompliance. MSCHE=due process USED= #NoDueProcess
5/ Since no one, including IHE or McMahon, apparently is aware that the SAS exists, this is how accreditors publicly list the accreditation status of all their members. I suspect that the last action was triggered by USED's investigation which is now closed. www.msche.org/institution/...
4/ This is called a Supplemental Information Report (SIR) and if I am correct that this is what will happen, will show up on Columbia's Statement of Accreditation Status (SAS) page. It wouldn't have been triggered by McMahon's screed but by the formal letter Columbia received from USED.
3/ MSCHE's President affirmed that they will "process these in accordance with our policies and procedures." Meaning, due process. Meaning, they will likely formally send Columbia a letter asking for information on relevant accreditation standards and give the university ADEQUATE TIME TO RESPOND.
2/ USED is asking MSCHE to take action because the regime "found" that Columbia violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. #NoDueProcess bc they laid off most OCR staff. They can't investigate. Just accuse. Note that investig began in the Biden admin. What's happening now is not that.
1/ A short thread on the IHE piece about the regime's call to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) to take action on Columbia. Essentially, USED is asking MSCHE to do something different than they already did. Article (soft paywall): www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Princeton has frozen most staff hiring and called on all departments and units to plan for 5% to 10% budget cuts as it prepares for the possibility of āvery large, permanent cuts to federal research funding as well as substantial increases to the endowment taxā paw.princeton.edu/article/prin...
My latest on Trumpās misnamed āanti-Christian biasā task force for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1948...
ChatGPT, write a letter to Harvard that sounds like my boss wrote it.
āWhen famously squaring off with President Donald Trump over education funding, Mills said she would see Trump in court. She did just that, and on Friday she won a settlement for her state, for the kids and for people everywhere who needed to see a certain asshole bully get punched right in the eyeā
The scientific community is at a pivotal moment right now. And we are seeing things start to shift. Now is the time for scientists and scientific institutions to step up. No one is coming to save us. š§µ
No hurricane, no need for FEMA. Problem solved. š¤
šfor the Mellon Foundation. A Mellon grant supported my doctoral research and continues to support the Central New York Humanities Corridor which includes many archives related to the religious groups, communities and movements that swept through the "burnt-over district" of upstate NY.
Ok, I did a deep dive into this EO and here's what I came up with. This EO, if it's upheld by the courts, will allow employers to discriminate, legally, against anyone who isn't an able bodied straight white Christian male. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
She probably considers T a "marketplace apostle" over one of the 7 Mountains, if not all of them.
I was exposed to way too much of this teaching in #MyOldCult and the short answer-yes. It's called Submission to Authority or the Covering Doctrine and men submit to the authorities placed over them (church and "godly" government) and women submit to men.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - typo
This is the section that is being edited in ALL regulations. "Or effect" appears 71 times in this Federal Register. Since affirmative action has already been ruled unconstitutional at least in higher ed admissions, taking out "or effect" renders the Civil Rights Act of 1965 toothless.
It is confusing! They claim disparate impacts based on race, color or national origin are discriminatory. 1973 regs added non-disc clauses to ALL fed assisted programs. "Or effect" means that as long as you don't intend discrimination the effect doesn't matter. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Given what RFK Jr is doing, ADA may be next.
Hey news people, do you think you could offer maybe some headlines about TRUMP TRYING TO REPEAL THE CORE OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT?
No accreditation=no Title IV funding (Pell, etc). Harvard might be able to survive this but most of higher ed, including the schools that educate the vast majority of Americans, would shut down. Thus itās no accident that yesterdayās other EO imagines a future w/o colleges. #academicsky
ABET caved months ago.
The regimeās war against US higher education is predicated against their bizarro interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, particularly Titles VI and VII. Oh, and IX if you include the war on trans ppl. Theyāre trying to have it both ways. #academicsky
When he says "we had more money than anybody", he means the tiny minority who were vastly wealthy. Most Americans were poor and lived miserable, work & disease ridden lives -- which ended at the average age of 52.
Oh, and this because we donāt need colleges anymore. Weāre going past segregation to, if not everyone can get in college then letās just shut them all down and not require a college education.
šØ Trump is trying to revoke aspects of the Civil Rights Act by executive order. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs receiving federal financial assistance. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Nothing like getting higher ed breaking news at night because of some stupid after hours EO targeting āaccreditorsā including scare quotes and everything. I just canāt. Iāll analyze the best I can in the morning. š¢ #academicsky
The DC metro is ground zero but the ripple effects of Canceling All Funding is going deep into Trump country. Got a call last night from someone I'm 99.9% sure voted T because prophecy asking if I'd be a reference bc they are losing their grant-funded job. Whether the cultists put 2+2 together IDK
I was in a state that did this in the 00-10s. Defunded higher ed to the bone, to where our flagship had to raise the We Won't Have Football card to stave off more cuts. Taxes supporting public higher ed were eliminated. Massive tuition increases paid for by students and families=TAX ON STUDENTS!
10/ So while it is predominantly private liberal arts institutions with some R1s, & most of the Ivys it is a more diverse group than I was expecting. And for all who didn't stick their necks out at all and could have, there are a few surprises on here who IMO took some risks by signing. /end
9/ (edited!!!) 7 out of the 8 Ivys signed. I don't know how I missed Columbia but they signed! So - Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, UPenn, Princeton, Yale. No Dartmouth.
Sadly, most.of.us.can't.go.anywhere.
8/ Some surprises (to me) from red(dish) states: University of Virginia, Central Carolina Technical College (NC), Central Wyoming College, and Maryville College (TN).
7/ All of the historically regional accreditors (only an accreditation geek knows to call them that LOL) were represented. 46 MSCHE, 35 HLC, 28 NSCHE, 17 WSCUC/ACCJC, 12 NWCCU and 12 SACSCOC. I was expecting even fewer SACSCOC since signing on to something like this is verboten in some states.
6/ SUNY had the most signers of any college system in the country, though that could be just be as much an effect of its size and that some of its institutions are on the regime's Hit Lists. Of the 8 SUNY institutions, 2 are university centers, 5 comprehensive colleges, and one tech college. No CCs.
5/ States with the most college signers were NY (24), CA (16), MA (13), WA (10), OH (9-all private), NJ (8), PA (8) and IL (7). Some states were not surprisingly represented like TX. But I was surprised there were 3 from TN (all private) and some evangelical Christian schools incl Wheaton College.
4/ The majority of college leaders are from private institutions (111 or 72.1%) instead of publics (43 or 27.9%). Of the states with the most signers, New York (24) had the highest % of publics (45%) vs. privates (54%) represented.
3/Out of the 173 signers, 19 are what AAC&U calls scholarly societies. NPOs include College Unbound, MLA, Campus Compact, Achieving the Dream, Complete College America, Great Lakes Colleges Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Endeavor Foundation, Council of Independent Colleges and more.
2/Here's the statement and list of signatories: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
1/I categorized the institutions whose leaders signed the AAC&U Public Statement that was published yesterday, speaking out "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." I looked at state, public vs private etc. #academicsky
This is what weaponizing rhetoric looks like. It means that accusing the regime of #NoDueProcess is gaining traction and hurting the regime. They can't call due process bad so the next tactic is, "I know you are but what am I?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfeL... Keep going!
Great point! All part of the RW MO to trigger lawsuits like these claiming violation of 1A free speech & freedom of association. #MyOldCult started a 3 person frat at UNC triggering an ADF/FIRE lawsuit. An ADF attorney trolled our fmr member forum around the same time www.thefire.org/news/alpha-i...
I said this last week, that the regimeās threat to revoke Harvardās tax exempt status had precedent in Bob Jones U. This current moment is revenge for the Civil Rights movement where the regime is (ab)using Civil Rights era statutes to undo it all. #academicsky
Itās projection. Someone else is being indoctrinated. When RW Christian ppl find out I work in higher ed, Iāll invariably be asked, ābut what is it like working someplace thatās so liberal?ā My institution teaches welding, machine tool, nursing and engineering tech. Oooo librul.
Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
Well, well, well. Stand up to the bully. Donāt cave. #academicsky www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
I would go further & say that Title IV funding is the lifeblood of most US higher education without which most would close. IMO Harvard was already preparing for a future wo Title IV when they said several weeks ago they would waive tuition for families under $200k. Most institutions canāt do this.
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
#NoDueProcess
They believe that if you don't know it's not a problem.š¶āš«ļø
In case anyone was wondering what it looks like when a lawyer can't find any evidentiary support for their client's actions, I give you the administration's response to a lawsuit challenging the massive layoffs at the Dept of Education:
Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.
Yes. It is absolutely about closing universities. Or to quote Max Eden, it's about taking a "prize scalp" and destroying them. www.aei.org/op-eds/a-com... #academicsky
In my rural, very MAGA area Iām seeing more upside down & 1/2 mast US flags. One new one just up the road from me. These are hardcore MAGA folks. Are there cracks in T support or is there bizarro MAGA messaging portraying the regime as under attack? (My 1st guess is always the latter unfortunately)
12/I šļøBob Jones U because what happened to them is what the regime is now threatening Harvard with. They are turning civil rights law and SCOTUS precedent on its head to turn back the clock and get retribution. /end
11/and what is insane is that some of the people who most benefited from the post-WWII educational order are on board with pulling up the ladder for everyone else. Like JD Vance who is a poster child for what education can do. Or my former gov Bobby J who was a child of immigrants and a Brown alum.
10/but the attacks on publics (Florida is the best recent example) set us up for this. BC now people don't value higher ed and think it's unnecessary and just puts people into debt. Not that it doesn't happen bc it does, but it didn't have to.
9/the culture warriors have realized that while publics educate the vast majority of people (including those they want to send back to the mines, literally), the Ivys and big R1s are the intellectual drivers of US higher ed. Cut off the head and everything else suffers.
8/nationally many institutions have closed and merged, incl priv liberal arts institutions & publics. In part bc of the "demographic cliff" & in part bc of defunding. But the big Ivys and R1s, Harvard, Columbia and the like, typically weren't under direct attack. That's a relatively new development.
7/this really took off during the Great Recession. Some states like Louisiana defunded higher ed to the point where institutions were cut to near closure. They wanted to close regional unis and HBCUs. But due to public pushback they more quietly closed and merged their already underfunded CCs.
6/back to why higher ed got so expensive in the last 15 years-states started defunding higher education, esp in red states, pushing more and more of the burden on students and families. Higher ed thought that their contributions spoke for themselves not knowing there was a war against them.
5/This period-70s and early 80s-is when the culture wars really took off. A lot of what we saw from the right (including religious right) in ensuing decades were proxy wars against civil rights and eventually aligned with US elite's existing wars against the New Deal.
4/Not to mention when Bob Jones U lost its tax exempt status due to racial discrimination, where SCOTUS determined that the 1st Amend didn't prohibit the IRS from removing its tax exempt status. As a private inst, they had the right to be bigots under the 1A but the feds didn't have to fund it. šļø
3/when higher ed access was expanded to more people, particularly Black Americans where states were put under desegregation decrees/agreements to deseg or more equitably fund institutions. So much in the culture wars began as a backlash against the Civil Rights movement and even the New Deal.
2/The reason why higher ed is so expensive: both states and the US govt funded and built our post-WWII higher ed infrastructure, both for research and education, building an increasingly knowledge-based economy. States began backing out of this bargain starting after the Civil Rights era...
1/This is the culmination of decades of attacks on US higher ed, including defunding of public higher ed to where students & families are under crushing debt and questioning the value of higher education. I fought this in a red state (Louisiana) in the late 00s-mid 2010s and won, temporarily.
#NoDueProcess
Florida is the template for all of US higher ed. Makes it sound like the public colleges had a choice in this matter. I recall when colleges in my former red state āagreedā to the GOP govtās demands under duress. Donāt sign, donāt get funding. Also absolved the govt of any culpability.
A lot of folks ask us, "Is the separation of church and state anti-religion?" Far from it! Church-state separation is the best friend faith ever had. www.au.org/the-latest/a...
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
I was not surprised since Iāve been watching this disaster unfold over the last 20 years after I left a proto-NAR cultic group. World domination is in their DNA and I knew that they wouldnāt stop until they succeeded. P25 was the result of decades of planning and positioning for this moment.
Iād describe it as more horrified. I think mainly because Iāve fought powerful people and either won or survived exposing them, so Iāve been expecting the worse for 20 years. Itās not quite āyou want a fight? Bring it onā but Iāve been expecting this for a long time and Iām as ready as I can be.
Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
#academicsky Including those of us who have written books/articles or presented on topics seen as targeting the regime or its core supporters. Most of us arenāt Ivy League superstars with longstanding offers from big intāl unis.
Back in the aughts, American Family Radio knocked off repeaters for UL Lafayette's NPR affiliate so this is nothing new. In that case they nixed totally socialist Cajun and zydeco programming for Christian Nationalist not at all indoctrination something something. www.gainesville.com/story/news/2...
#NoDueProcess
We already know of over 1,000 student visa terminations. The true number is likely significantly higher. Very few have anything to do with pro-Palestinian advocacy. The overwhelming majority seem to be the result of automated terminations for any contact with law enforcement, no matter how minor.
Sadly, groups like #MyOldCult and the New Apostolic Reformation at the core of the regimeās power base believe that their mandate is to make not just the US but *all nations* into Christian nations. Literal world takeover. Why Iāve been fighting & speaking out for the last 20 years.
Actually the template is New College of Florida but Iām a nerd about the details.
Harvard is one of the few US institutions that can afford to take a multi-billion dollar hit as retaliation for fighting #NoDueProcess cut offs and take backs of federal funding. The vast majority of us in higher ed would be forced to closure. This is existential for most of us.
In the melee, you may have missed it: Rubio is telling State employees to snitch on colleagues for "anti-Christian bias." Said "bias" is defined as not agreeing that right-wing Christians are superior and get to dictate the choices of everyone else. www.salon.com/2025/04/15/m...
Link to the original regime threat letter below. Note that they are increasing demands after Columbia caved. And as a reminder, a "financial relationship with the Federal government" includes not just grant funds but Title IV funding, without which most US institutions cannot survive. #academicsky