{"id":11000,"date":"2025-07-16T01:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:16:18","slug":"rufo-shapiro-others-ask-trump-for-new-higher-ed-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=11000","title":{"rendered":"Rufo, Shapiro, Others Ask Trump for New Higher Ed \u201cContract\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A conservative think tank called on President Trump Tuesday to \u201cdraft a new contract\u201d that universities must follow or face \u201crevocation of all public benefit.\u201d Among other things, institutions would have to end \u201ctheir direct participation in social and political activism,\u201d abolish \u201cDEI bureaucracies,\u201d and publish \u201ccomplete data on race, admissions, and class rank,\u201d according to the statement put out by the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Manhattan Statement on Higher Education\u201d also says universities must deliver \u201cswift and significant penalties, including suspension and expulsion, for anyone who would disrupt speakers, vandalize property, occupy buildings, call for violence, or interrupt the operations of the university.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning with the George Floyd riots and culminating in the celebration of the Hamas terror campaign, the institutions of higher education finally ripped off the mask and revealed their animating spirit: racialism, ideology, chaos,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe universities have contributed to a new kind of tyranny, with publicly funded initiatives designed to advance the cause of digital censorship, public health lockdowns, child sex-trait modification, race-based redistribution, and other infringements on America\u2019s long-standing rights,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 44 signatories are: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Rufo, an anti-DEI activist, member of the New College of Florida Board of Trustees and Manhattan Institute senior fellow;<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Foxx, a Republican U.S. representative from North Carolina who chaired the House Education and the Workforce Committee;<\/li>\n<li>Jordan Peterson, a University of Toronto professor emeritus and <em>Daily Wire <\/em>contributor; <\/li>\n<li>Ben Shapiro, a podcaster and <em>Daily Wire <\/em>co-founder;<\/li>\n<li>Scott Yenor, a Claremont Institute fellow and Boise State University professor who resigned from the University of West Florida Board of Trustees after implying only straight white men should be in political leadership;<\/li>\n<li>Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars; and<\/li>\n<li>Mark Bauerlein, an Emory University professor emeritus and member of the New College of Florida Board of Trustees<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an email to <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, Rufo wrote, \u201cThe American people have reached a decision point: to continue subsidizing the corruption of the universities, or to demand sensible, popular, and targeted reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X Tuesday, Education Secretary Linda McMahon congratulated Rufo and the Manhattan Institute for \u201cenvisioning a compelling roadmap to restore integrity and rigor to the American academy!\u201d But Education Department spokespeople didn\u2019t specifically say whether the federal government would take action on the proposed contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative think tank called on President Trump Tuesday to \u201cdraft a new contract\u201d that universities must follow or face \u201crevocation of all public benefit.\u201d Among other things, institutions would have to end \u201ctheir direct participation in social and political activism,\u201d abolish \u201cDEI bureaucracies,\u201d and publish \u201ccomplete data on race, admissions, and class rank,\u201d according<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1571,495,4195,4196,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-11000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-contract","9":"tag-higher","10":"tag-rufo","11":"tag-shapiro","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}