To the editor: Give credit score the place it’s due. Threatening to withhold federal {dollars} from analysis universities to drive implementation of political agendas is an invention of the Obama administration. (“How Trump’s win could reshape UC research, LGBTQ+ rights and student loan forgiveness,” Nov. 8)
The U.S. Division of Schooling’s 2011 “Pricey Colleague” letter required universities to implement Title IX responses to scholar sexual misconduct complaints that each one however abrogated the rights of accused college students, or else face lack of all federal funding. Classifying these new directions as “steerage” shielded the division from pushback by way of the courts or from Congress.
Schooling Secretary Betsy DeVos proceeded rather more actually throughout the first Trump administration, changing Obama’s short-cut steerage 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
