It seems to be like President Donald Trump is exempting two schools from his bitter battle with greater schooling.
In a quick Monday night time submit on Fact Social, he introduced that he’s “agreed to do the Commencement Address at two really GREAT places.”
The fortunate faculties? The College of Alabama and the distinguished army academy West Level.
Phrase of Trump’s commencement gigs comes amid his makes an attempt to purge what he sees as leftist ideology from American schools and universities.
Since taking workplace, the Trump administration has threatened to chop billions of {dollars} in federal funding from faculties he accuses of failing to guard Jewish college students throughout pro-Palestinian protests final 12 months.
Some schools have yielded to the intimidation ways. Going through $400 million in cuts to federal funding, New York Metropolis’s Columbia College folded to White Home calls for final month, agreeing to curtail on-campus protests and set up new oversight on the college’s Center Jap, South Asian and African Research program, amongst different concessions.
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Different establishments have fought again.
Final week, Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s calls for that it overhaul its hiring, admissions and governance processes or threat dropping $9 billion in authorities funding.
“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,” the college’s president, Alan M. Garber, wrote in a press release early final week.
The White Home swiftly retaliated by freezing $2.2 billion in multiyear grants and reportedly ordering the IRS to revoke the college’s tax-exempt standing.
Harvard’s determination to face its floor seems to have emboldened lots of its friends.
On Tuesday, over 220 leaders from inside America’s greater schooling system condemned “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education” in a joint assertion.
