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Trump Suggests Giving Trade Schools Money Taken From Harvard

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President Trump floated a new plan on Monday for the $3 billion he wants to strip from Harvard University, saying in a social media post that he was thinking about using the money to fund vocational schools.
“I am considering taking THREE BILLION DOLLARS of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform.
The announcement, among the president’s Memorial Day social media messages, did not appear to refer to any new cut in funding, but rather to a redistribution of money the administration already announced it had frozen or stripped from Harvard and its research partners.
Mr. Trump gave no details about how such a plan would work.
The message was accompanied by yet another post accusing Harvard of being slow to respond to the administration’s requests for information on “foreign student lists.” Mr. Trump said his administration wanted them in order to determine how many “radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.”
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The posts seemed intended to keep up public relations pressure on Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Harvard is engaged in an epic battle with the White House, rooted in the administration’s claims that the university tolerates antisemitism and promotes liberal ideology.
Harvard declined on Monday to comment on the president’s post.
The university is battling the White House in federal court in Boston to secure the reinstatement of grants and contracts that the government has frozen or withdrawn, amounting to more than $3 billion. In a separate lawsuit, the university is also fighting Mr. Trump’s plan to take away the university’s right to admit international students.
It was not clear exactly what Mr. Trump meant by “foreign student lists.” The federal government, which issues visas, already has in its databases the names and countries of the approximately 6,800 international students enrolled at Harvard. The government requested the university’s disciplinary records on those students, as well as video images of student demonstrations — requests that were part of a far-reaching list of demands with which Harvard has only partially complied.
Much of the money for Harvard that the administration has frozen involves research funding for scientific studies of disease. The unit at Harvard hardest hit by Mr. Trump’s campaign has been the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where work had been underway on efforts to stop the spread of tuberculosis and to find the cause of multiple sclerosis, among other projects.
That type of research is not typically conducted at trade schools, which specialize in practical skills ranging from automotive repair to cosmetology and generally do not engage in scientific research.

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Jason Altmire, who heads an association of trade schools and for-profit colleges, applauded Mr. Trump’s suggestion on Monday, though he said the best thing the federal government could do to help his group’s members would be to reduce regulation of them. “President Trump has taken significant steps in this direction and we are optimistic that his announcement Monday will continue that momentum,” he said in a statement.
While campaigning for office in 2023, Mr. Trump posted a video in which he spoke of “billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments” to create an entity called the American Academy.
Mr. Trump referred specifically to Harvard in the video, which resembled a sales pitch. He said the proposed new academy “will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content, covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills, and make that material available to every American citizen online for free.”
“Whether you want lectures or ancient histories or an introduction to financial accounting or training in a skilled trade, the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly, using study groups, mentors, industry partnerships and the latest breakthrough in computing,” he said.
“It will be strictly nonpolitical,” he added, “and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed — none of that’s going to be allowed.”
No plan for such an American Academy has materialized, however, and the White House did not respond to a request last week by The New York Times for more details.

 
People say we can't build anything here because our workers don't have the skillsets needed for modern manufacturing operations.

What Trump is proposing here is a good start, but would only be a start.
Money for trade skills sounds good.

Takiing it away from this doesn't sound so good.

Much of the money for Harvard that the administration has frozen involves research funding for scientific studies of disease. The unit at Harvard hardest hit by Mr. Trump’s campaign has been the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where work had been underway on efforts to stop the spread of tuberculosis and to find the cause of multiple sclerosis, among other projects.

Besides, he's never going to give money to trade schools. He'll simply buy some more tanks for his parade,
 
He's such a moran:

President Trump floated a new plan on Monday for the $3 billion he wants to strip from Harvard University, saying in a social media post that he was thinking about using the money to fund vocational schools.
“I am considering taking THREE BILLION DOLLARS of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform.
The announcement, among the president’s Memorial Day social media messages, did not appear to refer to any new cut in funding, but rather to a redistribution of money the administration already announced it had frozen or stripped from Harvard and its research partners.
Mr. Trump gave no details about how such a plan would work.
The message was accompanied by yet another post accusing Harvard of being slow to respond to the administration’s requests for information on “foreign student lists.” Mr. Trump said his administration wanted them in order to determine how many “radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.”
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The posts seemed intended to keep up public relations pressure on Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Harvard is engaged in an epic battle with the White House, rooted in the administration’s claims that the university tolerates antisemitism and promotes liberal ideology.
Harvard declined on Monday to comment on the president’s post.
The university is battling the White House in federal court in Boston to secure the reinstatement of grants and contracts that the government has frozen or withdrawn, amounting to more than $3 billion. In a separate lawsuit, the university is also fighting Mr. Trump’s plan to take away the university’s right to admit international students.
It was not clear exactly what Mr. Trump meant by “foreign student lists.” The federal government, which issues visas, already has in its databases the names and countries of the approximately 6,800 international students enrolled at Harvard. The government requested the university’s disciplinary records on those students, as well as video images of student demonstrations — requests that were part of a far-reaching list of demands with which Harvard has only partially complied.
Much of the money for Harvard that the administration has frozen involves research funding for scientific studies of disease. The unit at Harvard hardest hit by Mr. Trump’s campaign has been the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where work had been underway on efforts to stop the spread of tuberculosis and to find the cause of multiple sclerosis, among other projects.
That type of research is not typically conducted at trade schools, which specialize in practical skills ranging from automotive repair to cosmetology and generally do not engage in scientific research.

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Jason Altmire, who heads an association of trade schools and for-profit colleges, applauded Mr. Trump’s suggestion on Monday, though he said the best thing the federal government could do to help his group’s members would be to reduce regulation of them. “President Trump has taken significant steps in this direction and we are optimistic that his announcement Monday will continue that momentum,” he said in a statement.
While campaigning for office in 2023, Mr. Trump posted a video in which he spoke of “billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments” to create an entity called the American Academy.
Mr. Trump referred specifically to Harvard in the video, which resembled a sales pitch. He said the proposed new academy “will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content, covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills, and make that material available to every American citizen online for free.”
“Whether you want lectures or ancient histories or an introduction to financial accounting or training in a skilled trade, the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly, using study groups, mentors, industry partnerships and the latest breakthrough in computing,” he said.
“It will be strictly nonpolitical,” he added, “and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed — none of that’s going to be allowed.”
No plan for such an American Academy has materialized, however, and the White House did not respond to a request last week by The New York Times for more details.

Yep. They don’t want highly educated people. They want worker bees.
 
People say we can't build anything here because our workers don't have the skillsets needed for modern manufacturing operations.

What Trump is proposing here is a good start, but would only be a start.
Except none of this money will go to actual students trying to become electricians or welders. It's earmarked to be grifted.
 
The students at trade schools are going to cure cancer like Harvard’s NIH researchers were doing?

I’m all for trade school options. We need more CNC and similar workers. My Dad worked his way through college by doing HVAC during the summer.

But trade school students aren’t replacing Harvard researchers anytime soon.
So nonsensical.

Trump is as petty as a teen girl.
 
You never fail to miss a point. I could grab any Starbucks barista at random and they would have a higher IQ than you. You fell for a rapist conman. You dumb.
My cousin had a phd in aero engineering and pulled espresso shots for a while while he waited for his dream job to open at nasa Ames.
 
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Odd to say democrats don’t feel like getting their hands dirty. In today’s political climate I would be considered a left winger. Although I’m really just to the left of middle but still considered a democrat. Been in the trades for 30 years, been self employed for the last 18 of it. And I talk to many more just like myself on jobsites on a weekly basis.
 
Trump is going after any institution he deems "unacceptable" to him - universities, law firms, and the news media among others. He either sues them or extorts retribution by withholding, in the case of universities, previously approved federal funding. He wants to control the firing and hiring of faculty at universities and dictate the curriculum being taught along with determining who may or may not be admitted. This is unbridled fascism! It's time for Congress and the courts to put a stop to this nonsense.
 
Odd to say democrats don’t feel like getting their hands dirty. In today’s political climate I would be considered a left winger. Although I’m really just to the left of middle but still considered a democrat. Been in the trades for 30 years, been self employed for the last 18 of it. And I talk to many more just like myself on jobsites on a weekly basis.
Rich coming from someone supporting a billionaire who has lived his entire life in "completely unconnected to reality" wealth.
 
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You smart...you send smoke signals like real Injun....
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Money for trade skills sounds good.

Takiing it away from this doesn't sound so good.

Much of the money for Harvard that the administration has frozen involves research funding for scientific studies of disease. The unit at Harvard hardest hit by Mr. Trump’s campaign has been the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where work had been underway on efforts to stop the spread of tuberculosis and to find the cause of multiple sclerosis, among other projects.

Besides, he's never going to give money to trade schools. He'll simply buy some more tanks for his parade,

If it’s that important, Harvard can use their massive endowment to fund it.
 
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