Degrees from most prestigious universities should be worthless these days. After what we saw at Columbia and Harvard Universities last Fall, no parent should pay a nickel to send their progeny off to those learning institutions. President Donald J. Trump has offered universities a plan, where in exchange for certain guarantees, the schools would get the jump on grants and other Federal funds. California Governor Gavin Newsom has jumped ugly with his own threats to those California institutions who might consider the Trump plan. Still not worth it.

In the cause of full disclosure, my husband and I did go full tilt on our son’s education. He wanted to become a military officer and was accepted at The Citadel. We ponied up the cash, he wears The Ring and is a Major in the Army today. This is to say that if your little spawn has a plan and is committed it is worth it. If your angel is going for the prestige of a university degree, don’t play that game. Buy a bigger boat.

The universities have done this to themselves. The ancient hippies took over the faculty lounge and it has all turned to shite. They have even been screwing with the hard sciences like medicine. We all watched in horror last year when Jewish students at Columbia, UCLA, Harvard were intimidated, and anti-Semitic signs and protests abounded.

Liberal orthodoxy is the official religion of higher education. Gender ideology rules. For many years, Sex Week was a big deal at the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus, and many other schools. Hale, our Lisa wrote today about Harvard hiring a drag queen as a visiting professor.

Most universities, especially the Ivies have a significant endowment. They aren’t going to spend their own stash on this dreck. No, they want your tax dollars in addition to your tuition check.

President Trump with his own Jewish grandchildren was disgusted by what we saw on the campuses. As the NY Times wrote, Trump is making an offer to some institutions to curtail some of the ugly:

The Trump administration promised a select set of universities what the government said would be a great deal.

In exchange for agreeing to a list of demands, like limiting international students and protecting conservative voices, universities would get a leg up on grants, potentially beating out the competition for billions in federal funds.

At least one institution, the University of Texas, said it would be eager to sign up.

But to others in higher education, the Trump administration’s latest effort to use federal funding as leverage to push universities to conform to its own political policy agenda has provoked outrage.

They see it as another threat against their independence as the government attacks higher education over what it perceives as endemic liberal bias, and as a remarkable push to grab power for the executive branch.

The typists at the NY Times are delulu. What independence? Government attacks? Grabbing power for the Executive Branch?

Professor Walter Heinecke, from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville thinks this is a flat out threat against Freedom of Thought:

So what’s the deal Trump is offering:

“This is a real inflection point,” said Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Under the compact, a mix of nine public and private universities would receive favorable terms for government aid if they agreed to conditions like banning consideration of race or sex in hiring and admissions, capping international undergraduate enrollment, requiring that applicants pass admissions examinations and suppressing grade inflation. Universities with large endowments would be asked to waive tuition for students interested in the hard sciences.

While some of the ideas might be broadly embraced, like tamping down tuition increases, Dr. Zimmerman said, he was troubled by the idea that the federal government would be telling universities how to do it.

If people were getting value for the dollar, they might not object to the tuition so much. But Dr. Zimmerman likes his comfortable sinecure and that takes money.

This offer is only available to a few schools:

The institutions approached by the administration included the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia. Most would not say Thursday whether they would agree to the terms.

Oleaginous Gavin Newsom out in California just couldn’t stand it.

Gavin Newsom has threatened to withhold state funding from California universities that agree to the policies in a new “compact” distributed this week by the Trump administration.https://t.co/lPjGBqPxni

— NOTUS (@NOTUSreports) October 3, 2025

What a drip! Here is the Press Release issued by Newsom:

Gavin Newsom is so jealous of Donald Trump he cannot stand it. Newsom cannot even wait to see how all this is going to shake out. No one, especially from his state may take the deal. Governor Hair Gel just has to jump right on it. Sad.

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