{"id":427,"date":"2016-12-10T00:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=427"},"modified":"2016-12-10T00:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:20:45","slug":"trumps-universities-trump-means-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/trumps-universities-trump-means-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Universities: What Trump means for higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 election of Donald Trump was surprising to a majority of the nation, since many news outlet polls predicted a Hillary Clinton win. But now the nation is looking to Trump to steer the republic \u2014 and he has made the direction he has chosen for higher education clearer since the election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently appointed Betsy DeVos, billionaire and former chair of Michigan\u2019s Republican Party, as secretary of education. DeVos is a proponent of privatized education, which has some pegging the decision as a defining embodiment of the Trump administration\u2019s attitude toward future education policies.<\/p>\n<p>During Trump\u2019s campaign, he captured his voters by appealing to their concerns about the current economy andpolitical correctness, and by establishing a common enemy \u2014 elites who criticized his policies. This, along with tendencies toward anti-intellectualism, ties into how higher education may be affected by Trump\u2019s election and how campus activists at Ithaca College and nationwide will continue to respond to Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\/news\/trumps-universities-what-trump-means-for-higher-education\/\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 election of Donald Trump was surprising to a majority of the nation, since many news outlet polls predicted a Hillary Clinton win. But now the nation is looking to Trump to steer the republic \u2014 and he has made the direction he has chosen for higher education clearer since the election. Trump recently&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/12\/10\/trumps-universities-trump-means-higher-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}