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Trump Announces Massive Higher Education Overhaul To Create 'The American Academy'
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11/1/2023
In a video released to social media, former President Trump unveiled a new plan for "The American Academy" and called for reform in higher education.
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In recent weeks, Americans have been horrified to see students and faculty at Harvard and
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other once-respected universities expressing support for the savages and jihadists who
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attacked Israel.
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We spend more money on higher education than any other country, and yet they're turning
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our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many, many different dimensions.
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We can't let this happen.
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It's time to offer something dramatically different.
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Under the plan I'm announcing today, we will take the billions and billions of dollars
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that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university
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endowments, and we will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American
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Academy.
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Its mission will be to make a truly world-class education available to every American, free
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of charge, and do it without adding a single dime to the federal debt.
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This institution will gather an entire universe of the highest quality educational content
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covering the full spectrum of human knowledge and skills and make that material available
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to every American citizen online for free.
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Whether you want lectures or ancient histories or an introduction to financial accounting
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or training in a skilled trade, the goal will be to deliver it and get it done properly
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using study groups, mentors, industry partnerships, and the latest breakthrough in computing.
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This will be a truly top-tier education option for the people.
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It will be strictly nonpolitical, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed.
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None of that's going to be allowed.
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Most importantly, the American Academy will compete directly with the existing and very
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costly four-year university system by granting students degree credentials that the U.S.
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government and all federal contractors will henceforth recognize.
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The Academy will award the full and complete equivalent of a bachelor's degree.
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In addition to help the 40 million Americans who have some college education but no degree,
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the American Academy will grant credit for past coursework at legacy institutions and
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give you the chance to complete your education at the American Academy for free and much
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more quickly than is now possible or available.
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This will be a revolution in higher education and will provide life-changing opportunities
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for tens of millions of our citizens.
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Enjoy it, learn from it, and thank you.
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