Trump Forces Harvard’s Surrender

What the hell does Harvard know about the trades? This is pathetic. Harvard has around $52,000,000,000 in tax free donations. Tax these, not Social Security.

As long as they are promoting a bizarre gender program, I don't want tax money anywhere near them. Their latest stunt with the drag queen instructor is proof of their sick agenda and poor decision making.

“Woke” and “Trade school” are not words usually spoken together, but anything Harvard does or is will be leftist driven. They can spend some of their billions of donations and grants on subsidizing trade schools outside the blue, blue state of Massachusetts.

Absolutely hate this idea. I love Trump but his desire for a "deal" is starting to get on my nerves. What he should do? Cut off federal funding for Harvard. Congress should outlaw foreign aid to universities with steep fines for hiding illegal funds.

What does Harvard know about real people and real jobs? The correct answer: NOTHING! Their sole source of income should be donations from idiots and tuition from the same idiots, not taxpayers.

Wake up Trump, your so called deal will be used by Harvard (and likely the other Ivy Leaguers) as a smoke screen to continue to receive all that federal grant money (courtesy of us US taxpayers via our rather worthless Congress appropriations)) to still do whatever each university wants to do in their liberal biased agenda.

It is hard to imagine the Harvard admin and faculty supporting or even understanding teaching topics such as auto repair, welding, electrical service, that twill require instructors and students to get their hands dirty. Do we really need this? Bob Tasker

I would not trust Harvard!

Zero trust in Harvard. And of all institutions, not the one I would ever go to for trades training.

don't trust them. just another way they can continue to do DEI and get federal $$$

They will probably "successfully" run these trade schools, but, whose definition of "successfully" are we considering???

In 2011, Harvard School of Education published one of the most compelling reports castigating the failing of American public schools. Titled "Pathways to Prosperity", it detailed the apprenticeship program in European schools. Explaining that America's manufacturing productivity was losing to Europe because too many of America's youth were going to college rather than preparing for skilled labor. While forced DEI is anathema, anyone who has worked in either unskilled or skilled labor jobs knows that the workforce, including supervisors and management is comprised of people from different backgrounds, religions, races and so forth. Harvard may just have to unlearn its current "interpretation" of DEI in its trade schools.

So Harvard does trade schools.....DEI.....WOKE....From the river to the sea....with.... courses like How to build a car bomb 101? Or a Tailor made vest that really pops? It's already been said, Harvard and all our universities should at the very least have to disclose every dime they get from foreign donors and students. Actually a moratorium on any foreign involvement would be great!

There is no rationale expectation that Harvard is sincere about running a Trade School. It is merely a delaying tactic in the hope that the next election will bring more Marxists to Washington to support the insane left-wingers in Mass.

I just know if my children are ever looking into going to trade school, one run by a large educational institution would not be our first choice.

I would prefer no deal. No funding for Harvard. Plus no more student visas and no more Chinese students. Even better Harvard should be forced disclose their CCP ties.

They will struggle to overcome their deep biases, but if they can continue to cooperate with the administration, they will make good progress towards turning their bias into objective education.

I have absolutely NO faith in HAHVAHD running trade schools. I think that $500 Million should be used by HAHVAHD to donate to existing trade schools. I don't trust them. What good is a HAHVAHD degree in auto mechanics? Why should anyone in the trades pay $95 thousand a year for a useless degree? If anything, it could turn out that the trades would no longer BE trades because they too would require a degree.

I don't understand the reason for an academic institution like Harvard running a trade school would correct their DEI issues. The shouldn't be getting this much money from taxpayers.

Yes. I don’t trust Harvard running anything with their woke DEI mentality. However I trust President Trump’s instincts. I believe he will monitor them and pull funding if Harvard strays from the agreement.

It will be interesting to see how these schools will be staffed. What will woke plumbers and welders look like? I think that before any of these schools are accredited, there must be strict criteria to ensure that they are apolitical. But, I agree with Penny Boatright!

Harvard just hired a drag queen named "Lahore Vagistan" to teach to gender/culture classes. If Harvard has federal money, it will hire dudes in dresses to teach trades to the DEI crowd while keeping 50% as "overhead/indirect costs". It's a waste of federal tax dollars.

"Woke priorities" prevent woke priorities from working. Their own "priorities" in and of themselves don't even work.

The proper reprimand would have been forcing Harvard, and all Woke Universities, to remove their Woke DEI curriculums and staff members accordingly. We the taxpayers do not support this radical b.s. and as such should not be funding it. I mean seriously Harvard backed trade schools is Trump's answer to rectifying the problem?? "Sins are forgiven", is this a joke. We have nothing but chaos and issues at all levels in this country, more so since the MAGA King returned. His slow-play band-aiding of issues is failing miserably. You think he would have learned from 2020 specifically that he needed to come in with a solid (Shock n Awe) plan/agenda, yet here we are.. Guess there's a reason I sat the 2024 election out. Damn, I hate to be proven right in something so important to the future of our nation. Can only pray this turns around at some point..