A wake-up call to universities and their leaders: resist together; do not appease.

[jeffjarvis@mastodon.social]

A wake-up call to universities and their leaders: resist together; do not appease.
Gift link:
Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message https://wapo.st/3Mc2dK3

[joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social]

@jeffjarvis

Now they require giving up your email address to unlock the gift link.
Enshittification continues to expand...

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@joeinwynnewood @jeffjarvis

Requiring email addresses to track recipients of a "gift link" stinks. (I was asked too.)

Here's a better link around billionaire Bezos's paywall:

"Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message

Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement."

By Arne Duncan and David Pressman
15 Feb 2026 at 7:15 a.m. EST

archive.ph

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[xankarn@mastodon.online]

@jeffjarvis

"Universities must collaborate openly and publicly. Solidarity is leverage. Higher education leaders know how to do this. When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, universities across the country offered displaced students housing and tuition-free enrollment. If universities can cooperate in the face of a natural disaster, they can cooperate in the face of a political one."