To the editor: Give credit score the place it’s due. Threatening to withhold federal {dollars} from analysis universities to pressure implementation of political agendas is an invention of the Obama administration. (“How Trump’s win may reshape UC analysis, LGBTQ+ rights and pupil mortgage forgiveness,” Nov. 8)
The U.S. Division of Schooling’s 2011 “Expensive Colleague” letter required universities to implement Title IX responses to pupil sexual misconduct complaints that every one however abrogated the rights of accused college students, or else face lack of all federal funding. Classifying these new directions as “steering” shielded the division from pushback through the courts or from Congress.
Schooling Secretary Betsy DeVos proceeded rather more truthfully throughout the first Trump administration, changing Obama’s short-cut steering with the formal federal rulemaking course of, replete with public remark durations and avenues for authorized problem. It was additionally topic to congressional oversight.
Anticipate extra of the identical from President-elect Donald Trump’s second time period.
James E. Moore II, Los Angeles
