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Martin Schram: Trump Assault on Harvard and All of Higher Ed
- On May 30, 2025, Harvard University held its commencement in Boston amid legal battles with the Trump administration over aggressive federal actions targeting the institution.
- These federal actions stem from executive orders and policy moves since April 2023, aiming to impose viewpoint diversity mandates and restrict international student enrollment.
- Trump officials demanded Harvard enact federal oversight on admissions, hiring, and governance, while withholding billions in research funding and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status.
- During Harvard’s commencement, a federal court temporarily halted the policy restricting international students amid President Alan Garber’s warmly received address, in which he encouraged graduates to “stay comfortable being uncomfortable.”
- These confrontations highlight a broader campaign of federal control and political pressure on higher education, raising concerns about academic freedom and institutional autonomy.
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McCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses.
We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities on the left. … Today… Source
“Worse Than McCarthyism”: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump’s War Against Universities & Students
We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities on the left. … Today, the repression that’s coming out of Washington, D.C., it attacks ever
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Salem NewsAttacking academic independence: Trump assault on Harvard and all of higher ed
For Harvard University’s admirable standing up to the Trump administration’s attempts to dictate its campus policies, the White House is now trying to punish the school by revoking the Ivy League university’s ability to enroll international students through the Student…
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