Last year, Ithacans tried to pressure public officials to get #Cornell to pay more in lieu of taxes, because Cornell owns a huge amount of the property value in Ithaca.
This year, property taxes jumped an average of 20%, meaning homeowners and renters will be cost burdened.
Cornell directly drives gentrification and harms the community it's in. I hope prospective students understand this.
I'm a very #leftist kinda lawyer in a very rightist kinda region.
In meeting with clients over the years, I note that they often like to talk about politics. I'm not entirely sure why. Some, perhaps do so to "feel out" whether I'm their type of attorney. Some maybe think lawyers have some deeper political insight due to their connection to the law. I don't know. I just know it happens with great regularity.
And being a leftist in an extremely rightist world, you can imagine my discomfort.
Fortunately, I've found a strategy that seems to allow me to bond with clients no matter how rightwhackadoodle they seem. Are you ready for it?
I talk to them about #billionaires. I tell them I think the problem in this country comes from billionaires shipping our industrial base to slave labor countries so they could dodge taxes.
I talk about how there is no difference between democrats and republicans because, at the end of the day, they are all #IvyLeague back-slapping buddies.
"Contemplating their own rarefied status, members of Yale’s secret societies aren’t entirely sure what to do with it. They face the question roiling America’s elite campuses taken to its logical extreme: whether the modern social-justice politics advanced by college students can coexist with the staggering selectivity and privilege that benefit those same students."
Unfortunate turn of events, but predictable for those living in a Black body.
“Claudine #Gay resigned as president of #Harvard, amid pressure over her response to questions about antisemitism at US colleges and allegations that she plagiarized some of her academic work. Her resignation came just six months after she was appointed as the first Black person and the second woman to lead the #IvyLeague institution.” #racism#CorporateAmerica#BlackMastodon#BlackFedi
@fifilamoura
I read people criticising universities from the Right (e.g., students go to universities to get good jobs but learn nothing relevant), and from the Left (e.g., too much student debt, too many courses taught by underpaid sessional lecturers). In my opinion, both are mostly correct, particularly regarding the US #IvyLeague.
But I don't think either line of criticism has much to do with this #CAQ policy on out-of-province tuition rates.
Force them to compete against one other over who can best regurgitate the God's orthodox #ideology.
Reward those that most successfully regurgitate the God's orthodox ideology with great #jobs and access to influence by giving them A's and references.
Punish those who think critically by relegating them to low paying jobs and obscurity through low grades and withholding references.
That affirmative action in university admissions & other domains existed as long as it did is remarkable, considering the formidable opposition it encountered. From Reconstruction to affirmative action, every major effort to promote the progress of Black Americans & rectifying the impact of racial subordination has consistently faced charges of "reverse discrimination" & unfair "preference."
One of the aspects of this issue that I rarely hear about is the underlining injustice of the university system itself.
For hundreds of years, universities have been instruments of alumni nepotism, with people in positions of power promoting and hiring from elite schools, which perpetuates race and class bias.
The actual academic education that one obtains is not much different, it's the credentialism that gives graduates an advantage. This needs to change.
Penn president Elizabeth Magill resigns amid backlash over congressional hearing comments (abcnews.go.com)
The University of Pennsylvania's president has voluntarily resigned from the post, the university's board said on Saturday.