Scott Mikos
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Database stuff at a public university (Institutional Research) MS in math & former college math teacher 2 indoor 🐈s + 1 tree frog // SLC, Utah // he/him Fan of #startrek #warcraft #math and other things Please add alt text to images.
![Kaminer: President Roth, you’ve also said that some of the Trump administration’s priorities align with work that you already felt colleges and universities should be doing. Is this crisis empowering you to do things you otherwise could not?
Michael Roth: Oh, on the contrary. I think it’s given viewpoint diversity a bad odor because it’s being imposed on us, not because the federal government was looking for ideological diversity, but because they’re looking for loyalty. I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.
I think, of course, as my colleagues have said, we can do more than one thing at the same time. The problem, I think, for many people is: How do you negotiate with a partner who’s willing to actually destroy what we do well?
Beilock: Instead of stepping back and name-calling, I think our response ——
Roth: I didn’t name-call, did I?
Beilock: Oh, you definitely name-called. Instead of doing that, I think our responsibility as presidents should be to look at what we’re doing and how we can do it better, certainly in concert with the federal government, and be clear and defend our rights and values, whether that’s free expression, academic freedom, and understand that’s our responsibility to the American people, where trust in higher education is low.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ofuekpml52ec5ojcromd27gk/bafkreibwrcc3rb6pywza3qxpw4rqmwomqdbswrljofamila5kgsj7z4wm4)
