A linguistics course I proposed to teach at MIT on decolonization in Haiti and Palestine was censored and attacked by the university. My story is just one small window into the broader crisis and repression unfolding in higher education.
When I went to college one of my dorm neighbors was an engineer major and we were at uiuc. At one point we were talking about colleges we applied to and our choices and found out he got accepted to MIT. Im like. Why did you come here? They have a good engineering program and all but its still out of state for you and I mean. MIT! His response was. What if I change my major. He actually did change to pre-med.
When I went to college one of my dorm neighbors was an engineer major and we were at uiuc. At one point we were talking about colleges we applied to and our choices and found out he got accepted to MIT. Im like. Why did you come here? They have a good engineering program and all but its still out of state for you and I mean. MIT! His response was. What if I change my major. He actually did change to pre-med.