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Sun Apr 20, 2025, 03:02 PM Sunday

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

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.”

“Princeton stands with Harvard,” said the president of the school's New Jersey counterpart.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/phase-begins-trumps-battle-higher-090506546.html

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