Cornell Agrees to Pay Trump Admin Millions

JD_co

https://newrepublic.com/post/202893/cornell-university-deal-pay-trump-administration-millions

Cornell University has completely bent the knee to the Trump administration, making massive cultural and financial concessions in the process so it can get federal funding back.

On Friday, the university announced that it will pay the Trump administration $30 million over three years for reasons unspecified. It will also invest $30 million in “programs that incorporate AI and robotics, such as Digital Agriculture and Future Farming Technologies.”

Aside from those millions of dollars it’s shelling out, Cornell has agreed to hold “annual surveys to evaluate the campus climate for Cornell students, including the climate for students with shared Jewish ancestry,” to seek out “experts on laws and regulations regarding sanctions enforcement, anti-money laundering, and prevention of terrorist financing,” and hand over “anonymized” undergraduate admissions data directly to the federal government.

Mark

Just SAD and WRONG on so many levels. Out of the goodness of their hearts or does 47 and the feds have something on them?

Sven

Cornell’s lawyers probably figure it would cost more to litigate while their federal funding is frozen. Paying $30 millions over 3 years is doable but it sets a prescient of discriminating against Jewish students, whether it is factual or not. Cornell and other major universities could band together and counter-sue the Administration. Harvard and other universities have decided to fight.

Crash

Orange Scumbag Gestapo Regime. But Cornell's "leadership" should be ashamed. Prestigious Ivy League? Bushwah.