College Leaders Hit Back at Trump in Joint Letter: 'Political Interference' (1 Viewer)

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College leaders hit back at Trump in joint letter: "Political interference"

The Trump administration is threatening to freeze federal funding if colleges don't make changes, such as ending DEI initiatives.

www.newsweek.com

4.22.25
The leaders of 172 American colleges have accused the Trump administration of "political interference" and "undue government intrusion" into campuses. The institutions have co-signed a joint letter amid legal fights over the Trump administration's attempts to force through governance and leadership changes at colleges under the threat of frozen federal funding. A dispute with Harvard has seen the administration pause $2.2 billion of federal grants for the Ivy League college, which is defying a demand to make sweeping changes and has challenged the funding freeze in court. Among the statement's signatories were Harvard President Alan Garber, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber.....

"As leaders of America's colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education," said the joint statement, which the American Association of Colleges and Universities published on Tuesday. We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight. However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses."​

Government interference on college campuses is neither warranted nor wanted. I contend that Donald Trump remembers the protests at college campuses during the Vietnam War (he was a draft dodger at the time) and wants to make sure nothing of the sort occurs during his autocratic administration as he wages a failed global tariff war that is wrecking our economy, transfers people to a "black site" gulag in El Salvador, bans books, and tells colleges what they can and cannot teach their students. In the view of this administration, colleges and universities can only teach courses that are politically accredited by the Trump administrastion.

More than 100 colleges and universities issue letter condemning Trump's "political interference"

More than 100 universities and colleges have issued a joint letter condemning President Trump's "political interference" in the nation's education system.

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Notice that mandating DEI isn't political interference, but getting rid of it is.