Talk Out of School

Sun, Apr 20, 2025 19:00 PM

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Hosts: Leonie Haimson

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Is Trump Trying to Force Education Into a New Dark Age? -

Synopsis: Leonie interviews Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig about the authoritarian threats being made by the Trump administration to states, districts and schools, demanding that they eliminate their diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs or lose federal funding; as well as to colleges and universities, to not only eliminate their diversity programs, but also toe the administration line iby controlling who they admit, who they hire, and what they teach.

Guests:

Prof. Julian Vasquez Heilig, Professor of Educational Leadership, Research, and Technology at Western Michigan University. -

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Info / Links:

Julian Vasquez Heilig's blog, Cloaking Inequity, https://cloakinginequity.com/
US Dept of Education "Dear Colleague" letter, February 14, 2025, https://www.ed.gov/media/document/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf
US Dept of Education requesting districts certify compliance with Title VI, April 3, 2025, https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/ed-requires-k-12-school-districts-certify-compliance-title-vi-and-students-v-harvard-condition-of-receiving-federal-financial-assistance
Des Moines Register, Fearing federal DEI policies, Waterloo schools withdrew from African American reading event, March 12, 2025
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2025/03/11/waterloo-schools-withdraw-african-american-read-in-trump-dei/81949713007/
NY State letter to US Dept of Education, rejecting request for district certification on DEI, April 4, 2025 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25879984-040425-dmb-to-ocr-re-request-for-title-vi-certification/
District Administration, States now falling in line with DEI order; resistance remains, April 16, 2025
https://districtadministration.com/article/one-big-state-is-vowing-to-defy-trumps-dei-order/
ACLU, Information about ACLU and NEA lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s Feb. 14, 2025, Dear Colleague Letter,
https://www.aclu-nh.org/en/cases/nea-and-nea-nh-v-us-department-education
NAACP lawsuit, https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/001-Complaint-NAACP-v.-U.S.-Dept-of-Educ.-et-al_.pdf
WMUR, Federal judge considering whether to stop enforcement of Dept. of Education letter regarding DEI policies, April 17, 2025, https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-aclu-education-dept-dei-lawsuit/64515739
U.S. Department of Education press release, Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment, March 10, 2025 https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment
The Guardian, Columbia University caves to demands to restore $400m from Trump administration, March 21, 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands
Michael Roth, NYT oped, Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie, April 7, 2025,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html
Trump administration letter to Harvard threatening loss of funding, April 11, 2025
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf
Alan Garber, Harvard President, The Promise of American Higher Education, April 14, 2025
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/
Chronicle of Higher Education, These Faculty Senates Are Trying to Band Together to Stand Up to Trump, April 14, 2025, https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-faculty-senates-are-trying-to-band-together-to-stand-up-to-trump
ABC News, Trump admin freezes billions in funding to Harvard University after rejecting demands, April 15, 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvard-university-rejects-trump-administrations-demands-risking-billions/story?id=120799115
Fortune, Harvard’s defiance of Trump’s ‘authoritarian incursion’ supported by over 80 past and present college and university presidents, April 15, 2025 https://fortune.com/2025/04/15/harvard-defiance-trump-supported-college-university-presidents/?abc123
Bryan Alexander's blog, “The professors are the enemy”: J.D. Vance on higher education, July 18, 2024
https://bryanalexander.org/politics/the-professors-are-the-enemy-j-d-vance-on-higher-education/

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