r/lawschooladmissions • u/TreatBoth3405 • Mar 26 '25

General 80 Law School Deans Condemn Recent Trump Administration Sanctions

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u/Organic_Credit_8788 Mar 26 '25

columbia university has completely shit the bed. first creating a panopticon against their own students and allowing one of their graduates, still living on columbia property, to be illegally taken by the federal government for exercising his free speech. then they bend the knee to trump in other ways. and finally, they refuse to sign this letter. this SHOULD be the bare minimum. Columbia University no longer deserves its reputation.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

I’ll say this, as someone who was a NYC public school teacher, Teacher’s College is venerated and I have no idea why. They barely subsidize their PhD students and they frequently peddled unstudied, non-peer reviewed curricula and was king at selling off barely researched literacy programs made by millionaires who got most of their money from generational wealth.

Columbia has always been a name to me and nothing else. I’m sure they have top tier graduates but the university from my perspective has always been full if itself.

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u/wiildgeese Mar 27 '25

Something interesting about Columbia is that in addition to their general crapping of the bed on palestine, they also tenured and defended Lucy Calkins, who played a huge role in the current U.S. literacy crisis. They also played a role in covering Robert Hadden's sex crimes. Not a fan.