Sec. of Education Linda McMahon Issues National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards
These are the bullet points:
Secretary McMahon called on every postsecondary institution to publish, by the end of 2026, a clear public statement outlining its commitment to implementing reforms that will help restore public trust in higher education.
1. Transparency and Merit in Admissions: How will your institution ensure that admissions criteria are transparent and wholly described to prospective applicants? And how will your institution ensure admissions decisions are based on merit, achievement, and your university’s educational purpose?
2. Free Speech and Open Inquiry: How will your institution protect the free exchange of ideas, wide-ranging debate, and openminded campus discourse? And how will you guarantee that unruly and violent protestors do not harass students or disrupt classes, research, public lectures, and campus operations?
3. Intellectual Pluralism and Academic Vitality: How will your institution encourage intellectual pluralism in all its academic units? How will your faculty hiring and evaluation practices support academic vitality and ensure that all relevant perspectives are taken seriously? And how will your institution ensure the research enterprise is dedicated to advancing knowledge, deepening understanding, and serving the American people who fund it?
4. Affordability, Value, and Student Outcomes: How will your institution ensure that families can access affordable, high-return, degrees? And what will your institution do to contain costs, improve pricing transparency, and ensure that every academic program equips students to repay their loans?
5. Academic Standards and Rigor in the Age of AI: How will your institution incentivize rigor in the age of AI, combat grade inflation, and prioritize excellence in teaching and learning?
6..Safeguarding Research Integrity from Malign Foreign Influence: How will your institutions protect academic programs from foreign influence, and safeguard the integrity of the research enterprise?
7. Prioritizing American Interests: How will your institution answer this national call to action? How can your campus and faculty advance American security interests, deliver academic programs that meet urgent workforce needs, and contribute materially to the Nation’s prosperity?
WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
- How will you ensure that white students, especially males, are admitted before all others?
- How will you force professors to teach Republican propaganda and deny free speech rights to liberals?
- What is your commitment to hiring right-wing professors over serious intellectuals?
- What will you do to ensure that white Republican students get financial aid and when will you discontinue humanities and other majors that provide low-paying jobs?
- How will you use AI to automate teaching and cut costs?
- What is your commitment to rejecting any foreign students, and how will you bring research into alignment with right-wing philosophy that excludes any research that benefits minorities or women?
- How will you change curriculum to focus on white history and the building of this great country by white men who are super patriotic and never criticize policies that harm citizens?
Remember – Secretary of Education McMahon got her job because she and her husband own World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that brought the phony “professional wrestling” to Trump’s attention.
HOW COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WILL RESPOND
Yawn. Now let’s get back to serious business.