Inside Higher Ed: “5 Questions for Trinity Washington’s Outspoken President and Trump Critic”

The magazine preludes the interview: “Patricia McGuire set a tone by fiercely critiquing the first Trump administration. She’s poised to do it again, calling institutional neutrality ‘pure folly.'”

Trinity Washington University’s President Patricia McGuire was interviewed recently by Inside Higher Ed, a publication providing “the latest news, analysis and solutions for the entire higher education community.” The magazine posed five questions to President McGuire in the wake of the election of Donald Trump to his second non-consecutive term as U.S. President on November 6, after a highly emotional election season. After introducing President McGuire, the magazine asks:

“First and foremost, what do you think is in store? How do you think a second Trump presidency might affect higher ed?”

President McGuire goes on to answer that she believes the second Trump administration may “find new and more lucrative ways to manage the student loan system, for example, and perhaps do more private investing and private management of parts of what the Education Department does now. Change once more with Title IX rules is quite likely, and I think that many institutions would actually welcome that, because the Biden administration rules that were issued this year are enormously complicated and expensive to implement. On the other hand, it will result in a loss of protection for many, many students who are victimized by sexual assault, so that is something we’re going to have to watch very, very closely.”

Trinity is very proud of President McGuire, an alumna of Trinity herself. Trinity educates women (and men in many programs) to be true leaders and to face with intelligence and creativity, any challenge they are likely to face, as they lead our society into the future.

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