More than 100 US universities condemned the interventions of Trump’s administration in education, while Harvard filed a lawsuit for freezing grants worth $ 2.2 billion.
More than 100 American universities and universities, including reputables as Princeton and Brown University, condemned the “political interference” of US President Donald Trump in the country’s education system on Tuesday. According to the AFP report, TASR writes about it.
The joint letter was issued the day after prominent American Harvard University sued Trump’s administration for freezing multi -year grants totaling $ 2.2 billion. According to the university, the government threatens academic freedom.
Rejection of political interventions
“In a common voice, we oppose the unprecedented government and political interference, which is now threatening US higher education,” said Tuesday universities. “We are open to constructive reform and we are not opposed to legitimate government supervision. However, we have to oppose disproportionate government interventions,” it says. “We must reject the pressure use of public funding,” the schools add.
Trump threatened last week that Harvard University would take the status of tax -exempt institutions. If he refuses to subordinate supervision by the government, it will be one of the “political organizations” and similarly threatened many other universities. Elite Harvard University near Boston has previously frozen multi -year grants.
Disputes of academic freedom
Trump justifies his steps with the misconception of the university’s “ideology” and its alleged anti -Semitism. It encounters propalestinian demonstrations that took place at several American universities, including Harvard after the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip. In March, the US Department of Education announced on this basis that it will review state support for a total of 60 universities and universities.
Many schools, including prominent, including the University of Colombia, have submitted to Trump. Harvard’s management, however, resists his requirements for termination of measures to support racial diversity in the ranks of students and teachers or cooperation with immigration authorities in examining students. Harvard President Alan Garber declared that the university will not negotiate its independence or its constitutional rights.
