If elected president, Donald Trump hopes to “revolutionize” higher education. He pledges to do this in a recently released political campaign video by creating a federally funded online university where “wokeness or jihadism” is prohibited.
Here you have the details of the news.
Donald Trump plans to teach at his new free university
This week, former President Donald Trump revealed plans to create free college.
Trump announced his plans to create the American Academy on social media and hinted at some possible subjects to be taught.
He said the institution will be an online learning environment supported by “billions and billions of dollars”, gathered following “tax, fine, and prosecute excessively large university endowments.”
Trump said:
“This institution will bring together a universe of the highest quality educational content spanning the entire spectrum of human knowledge and skills and make this material available to every American citizen online free of charge,»
“Whether you want lectures, ancient stories, an introduction to financial accounting or training in a specialized trade. The goal will be to deliver it and do it correctly.”
Trump has criticized universities across the United States. He stated, “In recent weeks, Americans have been horrified to see students and professors at Harvard and other once-respected universities expressing support for the savages and jihadists who have attacked Israel… We spend more money on higher education than any other country – and yet they are. transforming our students into communists and terrorist sympathizers of many, many different dimensions“,
According to the Associated Press, fighting has persisted since Hamas launched strikes in Israel on October 7, with more than 9,000 deaths reported on both sides.
Harvard’s Palestine solidarity groups issued a joint statement condemning Israel shortly after the fighting began, which many other student groups signed.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all the violence that is taking place.“, we read in the press release.
The American Academy, according to Trump’s announcement, “will be strictly apolitical” and one “high level education option.”
Trump said: “No revival or jihadism is allowed. None of this will be allowed.”
“Most importantly, the American Academy will directly compete with the existing and very expensive four-year college system by granting students degrees that the U.S. government and all federal contractors will now recognize..”
After Harvard student groups released the statement, Harvard President Claudine Gay responded, saying, “As the events of the past few days continue to reverberate, there is no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas..”
“Let me also state, on this and other topics, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no group of students – not even 30 groups of students – speaks for Harvard University or its directors..”
Trump’s proposed policy comes at a time when major U.S. universities and other institutions are under political pressure, most recently over how they responded to Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel.
Major donors, politicians and business leaders have criticized their alma mater and even threatened to withhold funding in the future if they continue to allow pro-Palestinian speakers on campus.
America’s higher education system would be completely reshaped if the federal government created an entirely new university to compete with the thousands of already established institutions.
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