More than 100 presidents of the university, university, university and scientific society published a joint explanation against the treatment of university institutions by the Trump administration on Tuesday to comment after Harvard University explained that the administration threatened its independence.
The explanation, which was signed by President of Institutions such as Princeton, Brown, the University of Hawaii and the Connecticut State Community College, criticized what she transfers the unprecedented government and described political interference that is now at risk of American university formation “.
“We are open to constructive reforms and do not reject the government’s legitimate supervision,” the explanation said. “However, we have to lean against the life of the government in the lives of those who learn, live and work on our campus.”
The White House did not answer a request for a comment on the explanation.
The joint explanation of Tuesday is the latest issue of the resistance of the US university director, when the Trump government tries to use its financial survey for the overhaul of science.
On April 14, Harvard refused numerous requirements of the administration that requested the supervision of the student body, the faculty and the curriculum of Harvard to contain what she perceives as a liberal bias at the university.
The Trump administration says that in grants of more than 2.2 billion US dollars and in the amount of $ 60 million in contracts to Harvard University, after the institution announced on Monday, to meet the demands to limit activism on campus.
Shortly afterwards, the government announced that it freezes 2.3 billion US dollars at school at school.
According to Harrison Field’s declaration of the White House, President Donald Trump would like to ensure that taxpayers do not support racial discrimination or racially motivated violence.
The administration also threatened to remove Harvard her tax -exempt status and to take away her ability to register foreign students.
On Monday, Harvard sued the Trump administration to force them to re -froze their orders and accuse the Federal Government to “revise Harvard’s governance, to control and dictate the faculties faculties, which the faculty could teach the students of Harvard for ideological reasons”.
In his complaint, Harvard said that the government is trying to “force and control the university”. In addition, the government has not accused proceedings that were determined according to the law law laws.
Since his inauguration in January, Republican President Trump has excited the US universities and explained that they have abused the propalestinic protests of the past year and fiddled anti-Semitism on the campus.
His administration also targeted universities for other topics such as transgender rights and diversity, justice and inclusion programs and threatens to hold back federal financing through these questions.
Columbia University was an early goal, but in the past few weeks the administration has focused on Harvard.
On April 15, more than 60 former and current college and university presidents signed an open letter in which they “strongly support” that the President of Harvard, Alan Garber, “strongly support” the rejection of the government’s claims.
