Harvard accepts it with Trump, supported by Barack Obama

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Media? “Fake News”. Political opposition? “Enemies from the inside”. Independent judges? “Radical crazy”, “disturbed” and “unfair”. The US President takes on one institution after the other. First Donald Trump discredited, then he pulls through. He already ignored numerous judgments. Now he is buttoned up the universities.

“Trump’s approach is from the textbook for autocrats,” says Nancy Gertner ““. She is a lecturer at the Harvard Law School and retired judge. Her employer is the first university to not accept the measures of the Trump government and position herself publicly.

Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a letter: “No government- regardless of which party is in power- should prescribe what private universities can teach, who they can allow and hire and what study and research areas they can pursue”. Such demands were received by the university, summarized in ten points. Government employees also asked to put the political views of students and teachers to the test and to forward admission data to the government.

The government threatens at least seven universities, if they ignore the measures, the “ together. These include elite universities such as Columbia, Cornell or Princeton. Even in front of the University of Pennsylvania, Trump’s own Alma Mater, he doesn’t stop. The educational institutions are about billions, so it quickly becomes existential. To show that he is serious about Garber’s letter to Fror Trump several years of grants of $ 2.2 billion (1.9 billion euros).

Universities like Harvard are now fighting for their freedom, not just for the academic. What measures could the President appease? Or lead individual steps to a safe without a floor?

The university receives support from a prominent alumnus. The A positive example for other universities, “by rejecting an illegal and awkward attempt to suppress academic freedom”.

He hoped that other institutions followed. We stay for you.

Have a nice day and warm greetings

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