Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House\u2019s \u2018undue government intrusion\u2019<\/p>\n
More than 100 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cunprecedented government overreach and political interference\u201d with higher education \u2013 the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against the government\u2019s extraordinary attack on their independence.<\/p>\n
The statement<\/a>, published early on Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, comes weeks into the administration\u2019s mounting campaign against higher education, and hours after Harvard University became the first school to sue<\/a> the government over threats to its funding. Harvard is one of several institutions hit in recent weeks with huge funding cuts and demands they relinquish significant institutional autonomy.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House\u2019s \u2018undue government intrusion\u2019 More than 100 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cunprecedented government overreach and political interference\u201d with higher education \u2013 the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against … 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-39429","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\/39429","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=39429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}