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Harvard President Stands Up Against Trump

Harvard University on Monday rejected demands from the Trump administration as it threatens the school’s federal funding as part of a broader clampdown on higher education. The university said that while it is and will continue to engage in reforms, those changes should not be mandated by Washington.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” wrote President Alan Garber.
In response, the administration said it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi year grants to Harvard, along with a $60 million contract.
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marybmom · 31-35, F
I happen to agree with Harvard but the same time I no entity including the government has to spend money on anything it doesn't agree with. Previous administrations have withheld funds frrom public universities for a lot of different disagreements. So I Harvard can lose funding standing it's ground in fact it shows a great deal of integrity, but should they cave that makes the money more important than the issue. That means their position is either for sale or a virtue signal.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@marybmom virtual signal unti. It his pocket book
@marybmom education risks funding your opponent in any argument that's not settled. It has no place in a fascist war loving nation. Peace has no place. Funding peace would never happen in the USA! Americans know it's not what you must do - and you don't agree with peace!
marybmom · 31-35, F
@Roundandroundwego what peace are you talking about I'm talking about a college seeking money from an organization they openly disagree with. The Biden administration withheld funding over trans policies and I support that too. In short don't fund what you don't agree with. You're weighing the issues not the funding. Would you want federal funding paying for studies in how strong 2 parent heterosexual families are. I have the feeling you would be 100% in favor of cutting that funding unless it was trump cutting it.
And I applaud Harvard for this brave move!! US universities, public and private, are the biggest engines of new research on the planet, and many universities are fighting back against Tяump's NSF cuts. The research funding also funds tens of thousands of PhD students every year; people who will go out into industry and become essential to our future economic competitiveness.

Don't let Tяump amputate our future!!!
I mean on the one hand this is good.

But Harvard and Yale have war chests equivalent to the GDP of a small country. Not every university has the luxury of being able to tell Trump to shove his 60 million where the sun don't shine.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow and Pentagon funding, speaking of war chests.
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda.

31% of Americans believed in Trump and put voted against humanity.

@MistyCee cultural Marxism is the theory that universities harbor an anti American Marxist cadre that's causing youth to question capitalism. Trump's quoting the Nazis from the 1930's who first came up with this theory - I am descended directly from people who hated Jew Marxist academia in 1939. Nazis. Gahead and pretend I don't know nothing! Pretend you got no fascism in your mainstream, not in the Dems, nevah!
@MistyCee I have to open in an incognito window to see what the other person is saying. So question capitalism is a sin and that sin turns one into a "cultural Marxist." Fascinating!

@Roundandroundwego Great. I just wasn't sure if I'd somehow stepped into the Cultural Marxism abyss when talking about SCOTUS, Trump and Con Law Professors.

I understand generally, at least some of the conspiracy theories that persuade people to support Trump, including that one, but I didn't mean to step into them.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
Harvard has enough in endowment funds to pay tuition for every student.
They dont need taxpayer money
@Patriot96 No. Just not a fan of a dictatorship run by a dangerous cult.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow so you are a fan of wasted and stolen tax money
@Patriot96 No. I am not a fan of Trump and Elon. That is your cult, not mine.
It's true that learning is dangerous for the empire and has no place in your mainstream. That's why Harvard takes war money and Pentagon control.
ron122 · 41-45, M
No problem, Harvard won't receive any funding.
@ron122 I see you approve of government forcing ideology on educational institutions. At least you are consistent on your authoritarian politics.

And if you think Trump is in a position to use funding as a threat you are clearly not bridge enough to be a member of the alumni at Harvard.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
Its not the Harvard presidents money he is wasting
@Patriot96 And it is not the President's place to dictate what is taught in universities.
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MissingLink · 51-55, M
@MistyCee Spoken like a true Dick-Tator
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