Universities Are Majoring in Hypocrisy

Nothing unites the elitist left more than just a single word. And that word is “Trump. Nothing, it seems, trumps Trump as a clarion call to resist our President and everything he stands for.

Suddenly universities have decided that their independence is under assault. A statement signed by over 500 university presidents denounced Trump’s “overreach and political interference.” In addition, Harvard is now spearheading a “collective” of about ten schools to counter Trump’s attack on higher education, as they describe it. And all it took was the Trump Administration’s demand to combat anti-semitism among other things or they will freeze billions in research funding.

So it was money all along.

Here’s what didn’t cause them to unify:

Students and non-students setting up tents long term on campus, hiding behind masks, disrupting classes and graduation ceremonies, trespassing on school property, harassing a religious minority (Jews), defacing property, and censoring others who refused to kowtow to their version of the war in Gaza.

Without having to formally announce a bid for unity, all these highly ranked universities throughout the country marched collectively for many years to the unwritten law of the Far Left, or the “Progressive” left as they prefer to call it.

Turns out the “red line” they now say they won’t cross is not protecting a threatened minority or free speech or academic integrity as they claim, but to fight the Administration’s demand for change at these universities. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (“Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration,” April 27, 2025), their main concern is “relinquishing academic independence, including autonomy over admissions, hiring and what they teach.”

Hmm, I think this means that they are desperate to continue the pretense that academic integrity even exists anymore at their schools. Most of these schools were so enamored with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) movement that all prospective faculty, even those applying to teach chemistry for instance, had to submit a statement about their commitment to DEI in order to be considered for a job. Priority was given to members of the “oppressed classes,” including blacks, Latinos, native Americans, women. White men had to go to the end of the line.

Add to that, the impact on students. A report by Speech First, a group advocating for First Amendment rights on US campuses, found that about two-thirds of selected universities required that students take DEI-related classes to meet graduation requirements (“Two-thirds of US Colleges, Universities Require DEI to Graduate,” NY Post, April 11, 2024). What’s more, far left dictates have infiltrated almost every area of graduate education from law schools, to medical schools, to education programs, and especially to business schools. Students could not escape the growing spider web of DEI mandates. There were no calls to unify when medical schools stated that there were no longer two sexes, but a myriad of them. Business schools were encouraged to promote the factoring in of ESG (environment, social and government) in calculating investment (except maybe for endowment funds).

Professors were fired for questioning social justice causes. Think former Harvard President Larry Summers, who had the audacity to suggest that the under-representation of women in science and engineering, may be partially due to innate differences, and not solely to discrimination and social conditions. For that he was forced to resign ten years ago. So much for the academic pursuit of differing viewpoints.

It’s no secret that classes about non-Western civilizations have ballooned while courses on classical literature and western civilization, the bedrock of our nation, have decreased.

And finally, let’s talk money since that appears to what really has been the catalyst for this so-called collective of top notch schools. Elite universities have received billions from countries that, shall we say, don’t have our best interests in mind. Think China and Qatar who alone have funneled $29 billion into U.S. campuses (The Free Press,, “Qatar and China are Pouring Billions into Elite American Universities,” April 26, 2025).

The floodgates opened especially during the Biden Administration when the amount of foreign donations nearly doubled. And which college received the most? You guessed it: Harvard (followed by Cornell and Carnegie Mellon). The others were among them the same ones under Congressional investigation last year: MIT, U of Penn and Stanford, hmmmm). And much of it has been unreported, a violation of federal law. As previously reported, in The Free Press, at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on billions in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes.

But none of this was viewed as infringing on academic freedom. Money received from Qatar which supports Muslim extremism including Hamas terrorists and promotes college faculty who indoctrinate students with blatantly false narratives about the conflict in the Middle East, was not seen as being in conflict with academic freedom.

Now these same self-righteous, woke universities are making an attempt to unite against Trump. Will they succeed? Seems unlikely to me. The tide has turned. There is a generation of students, faculty and alumni who are fed up and distressed at the extent of left wing indoctrination at these so-called top universities and are pleased to see that finally someone is addressing this.

I think a complete investigation of the behavior of these institutions is long overdue. It’s time to apply the brakes. I say let’s take a good look at college’s academic integrity.