{"id":38836,"date":"2025-04-15T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/obama-and-yale-faculty-back-harvard-as-trump-cuts-2bn-in-federal-grants\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:06:26","slug":"obama-and-yale-faculty-back-harvard-as-trump-cuts-2bn-in-federal-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/obama-and-yale-faculty-back-harvard-as-trump-cuts-2bn-in-federal-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn in federal grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard faces a funding freeze as elite universities warn of growing threats to free inquiry and civil rights<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/15\/donald-trump-harvard-funding-tariffs-immigration-dei-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barack Obama, Yale and other academic institutions have come out in support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/harvard-university\">Harvard<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> elected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/trump-harvard-funding-freeze\">cut $2bn of its federal grants<\/a> after the Ivy League school in Massachusetts rejected what it said was an attempt at \u201cgovernment regulation\u201d of the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions \u2013 rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect,\u201d said a statement from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\">Obama<\/a>, the US president from 2009 to 2017. \u201cLet\u2019s hope other institutions follow suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2025\/apr\/15\/obama-yale-harvard-trump-cuts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard faces a funding freeze as elite universities warn of growing threats to free inquiry and civil rights US politics live \u2013 latest updates Barack Obama, Yale and other academic institutions have come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school &#8230; <a title=\"Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn in federal grants\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/obama-and-yale-faculty-back-harvard-as-trump-cuts-2bn-in-federal-grants\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Obama and Yale faculty back Harvard as Trump cuts $2bn in federal grants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}