Our guests today signed onto a statement by a group of 18 law professors who opposed the Trump administration's funding threats at Columbia on free speech and academic freedom grounds.
Since then, Northwestern, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, and nearly 60 other colleges and universities are under investigation with their funding hanging in the balance, allegedly for violations of civil rights law.
To help us understand the funding threats, Harvard's recent lawsuit against the federal government, and where universities go from here are:
- David Rabban — distinguished teaching professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- Erwin Chemerinsky — distinguished professor of law and dean at UC Berkeley Law
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:50 Govt's approach with Harvard and Columbia
05:39 Title VI violations
11:30 Anti-Semitism on campuses
23:02 Viewpoint diversity in higher education
27:12 Affirmative action and the Supreme Court
35:52 Title IX under the Obama and Biden administrations
42:32 Bob Jones University and tax-exempt status
45:53 Future of federal funding in higher education
54:08 Outro
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