There Columbia University raise the dams against Donald Trumpwhile the US President returns to attack Harvardthe first great American university that has not bent on his diktat: «It is one joke” That “teaches hatred And stupidity»And that” not deserves»Federal funds, he wrote on Truth after having cut over two billion dollars of funding.
In the meantime, however, the hard line of the Ivory Tower of Massachusetts began to bear fruit: in California theUniversity of Stanfordwhich is certainly not a bastion of liberal thought, has announced that will not erase the initiatives concerning diversity, equity and inclusion. The words of its rector, Jonathan Levinare clear: «The American University they are a source of great national force that has been built thanks to Government investmentsbut not under his control – he says – a principle recognized by Supreme Court When he defined the fundamental freedoms of universitiesguaranteed by First amendmentlike the possibility of deciding who can teach, what is taught, how it is taught and who is admitted to study ».
Meanwhile, the Columbiawhich at the beginning of March had bent on the administration’s requests after the cut of 400 million dollars of federal funds and that now Trump threatens to commissariarehe moved back by committing herself, in the words of the rector Claire Shipmannot to allow the government to ask the University to abandon his autonomy».
With Harvardwhose position is facilitated by colossal equipment of 53 billion dollarsthe professors of Yalean university Ivy League So far remained immune from the threats of Washington.
Meanwhile, a Boston the district judge, Allison Burroughsblocked the Cuts decided by the Energy Department to a group of university, including Mit, Princeton And Cal tech. The universities had sued on Monday to prevent the administration from deciding to reduce the funds for “indirect” coststhat is, structures, equipment and staff who are then used in several research projects.