A new phase begins in Trump’s battle with higher education

Image: Memorial Hall, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, ca. 1900. Image credit: Detroit Publishing Company via Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication. Article by Zachary Schermele. USA Today – updated April 19, 2025.

WASHINGTON – For Harvard University, the cavalry has arrived. When the nation’s oldest and richest college first rebuked the Trump administration last Monday amid efforts to force changes to its campus, other powerful universities were quick to come to its defense. “Harvard’s objections,” wrote Stanford University’s president and provost the next day, “are rooted in the American tradition of liberty, a tradition essential to our country’s universities, and worth defending.” […]

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