Notre Dame administrators, political science faculty discuss Trump administration's higher education
policies"...Notre Dame Observer.
Here is an excerpt from that article...
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He added that the focus on elite research institutions may reflect a deeper shift in federal funding priorities. “These are institutions — Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia — that are major sources of the production of research. And so if the administration wants to clamp down on the kind of research that’s being done, this is a sort of target that you might expect them to go after.”
Notre Dame, Campbell explained, has not yet been publicly drawn into the conflict. “Notre Dame as an institution has thus far — but I should stress only thus far — been mostly insulated from the sort of actions that we’ve seen from the administration,” he said.
“Our religious character probably does somewhat insulate us,” Campbell added, “but I wouldn't want to overstate that, because I do think that every university is vulnerable at this moment.”
As Harvard and other institutions move toward legal action, law scholars suggest the lawsuits will challenge both the process and constitutional basis of the administration’s policies.
“Harvard has advanced (and other institutions likely will, too) a variety of constitutional, statutory, and administrative arguments against the Administration’s recent funding-freeze orders,” professor Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School wrote. “The claims are that the administration has not followed the required procedures for enforcing conditions on funding and that it has imposed unauthorized requirements that infringe on institutions’ First Amendment rights.”
Garnett explained that while all universities receiving federal funds accept legal conditions, those conditions cannot override constitutional protections. “There are strong arguments that the strings currently attached to federal funds do not include the power to impose ideological requirements on universities’ core academic decisions and practices,” he wrote. “Any university — public or private — that accepts federal funding may be subject to the reasonable, relevant conditions that are attached to that funding. But those conditions must be consistent with the First Amendment’s free-speech and religious-freedom guarantees.”
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Link: https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025/04/notre-dame-political-science-faculty-discuss-legal-and-political-challenges-facing-universities
Replies to: Notre Dame administrators, political science faculty discuss Trump administration's higher education
Cool. Golden opportunity to take funds lost by Harvard Columbia... if ND admin is smart.
Researchers follow $. Get $, they will come.
ESL translation: ND cares about free speech.
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Not sure if you read the article, but our administration is very much concerned...for Free Speech
and Religious Freedom reasons. What do you have to say about that?
Free Sleech is only under threat from the left.
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Is the left deporting international students for writing essays in the school newspaper?
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No, they're promoting V.P. candidates who say it's not guaranteed.
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You're flat out ignoring what Trump is actually doing to eliminate Free Speech...own it.
Ignoring?
I don't give a shit if visa holders who proclaim support for terrorist groups get sent home. Do it more.
Free Speech is taken care by constitution. I think the school admin should concern about funding.
They can sue government if they think their free speech right is violated.
ESL translation: Fat Donald is ignoring the Constitution and defying court orders.
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The problem here is that Trump isn't sure he needs to abide by our Constitution...
We are all concerned with Free Speech.
That should include ALL SPEECH!
Even some that might trigger others,
Sure, MAGA cultist. You stand for anti-democracy lawlessness. Own it.
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Not true Curls, but we all SHOULD be concerned about free speech.
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Glad you agree, but the Trump administration doesn't see it that way...take for instance, Notre Dame
whose Board of Trustees has taken a firm stance in support of "DEI", yet it allows those who don't agree with it (e.g. The Sycamore Trust) to hold meetings on campus. As seen at other Universities, the Trump admin would like to 'amend' that vision of Free Speech and deny any speech that even hints of "DEI"...if you read the news, you have to know this.
Given your stated commitment to Free Speech, you have only one choice...oppose Trump's attempts at having the federal government decide what can be said at American universities...will you?
It would appear that you don’t read this board. Your fellow MAGA supporters
and anti-democrats posters find free speech abhorrent, unless of course it agrees with their/your ideology.
Not true, Curly. Most MAGA shitbags are not concerned at all.
When info about the laptop was blocked on social media for a few hours (which is all it was), then that was clearly a national crisis.
"shit bags"? you never let us down
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"Shit bags" to Chris, but Trump himself calls his supporters "basement dwellers".
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I have no idea how the government decides who gets grants and who doesn't.
Somebody decided that the Ivys deserved a ton of federal money... but why?
Maybe because so many DC power brokers are alums of these institutions?
I support diversification of these programs to other schools around the country... and a serious reduction of many those that are not scientific.
Then you should stop expressing opinions until you learn about it
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It's remarkable what you can find on the Internet in a matter of seconds...if you know how to
ask the right questions.
Link: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED517263.pdf
I get it..."federal program managers" decide who is "eligible."
But who chooses them and why are they chosen AND what are their criteria for "eligibility?"
Did you read the section on "Peer Review"?
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