Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump
by Edward Helmore from US news | The Guardian on (#6WMQG)
Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands'
Barack Obama has come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school in Massachusetts rejected what it said was an attempt at government regulation" of the university.
Meanwhile, faculty at Yale University - another prominent Ivy League institution - has asked its leadership to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and ... self-governance".
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