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The Director of our department claimed in a recent meeting that "Trump is attacking universities." I keep reviewing Trump's compact for universities, which includes what you have written here, and I cannot for the life of me comprehend how they get "attack" out of that.

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Thank you for your efforts and congratulations on all you have achieved this year. Alas, I’m a professor at a small, private university and many of these shibboleths you mentioned remain in firmly in place at my institution. We even still possess a DIE committee…they have rebranded to Diversity, Equity, and Justice, but they still have the ability to tag courses with the “D” (for Diversity) designation. In order to graduate, a student must take at least one such course. Although my department (history) never used pronouns, the English department still uses them to a man/woman/non-binary, gender-neutral, CO2 emitting, entity.

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