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Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump


Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

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Barack Obama has come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school in Massachusetts rejected what it said was an attempt at “government regulation” of the university.

Meanwhile, faculty at Yale University – another prominent Ivy League institution – has asked its leadership “to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and … self-governance”.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/15/obama-yale-harvard-trump-cuts

Author : Edward Helmore

Publish date : 2025-04-15 18:46:00

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