Trump Budget Defunds Title VI, Affirms Middle East Forum Campaign for Accountability

As noted by Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine, the Trump administration’s 2018 higher education budget defunds “Title VI from $72 million to zero.” Given the anti-Western, pro-Islamist bias afflicting Title VI-funded Middle East studies centers, which, ironically, were intended to strengthen national security, this is a welcome development. It’s an affirmation of the ongoing campaign initiated in 2014 by the Middle East Forum and a coalition of partners to ensure that such centers offer the “wide range of views” required by a 2008 amendment or face reduced funding. It is now up to Congress to implement Trump’s budget and the likelihood of eliminating Title VI funding is slim, but it’s a conversation that’s long overdue in the nation’s capital.

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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