University fights back against threats to cut federal funding. Plus, tributes pour in for Pope Francis<\/p>\n
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Harvard University has filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration, alleging that it is trying to \u201cgain control of academic decision-making\u201d.<\/p>\n What has Harvard\u2019s president said?<\/strong> \u201cNo government \u2013 regardless of which party is in power \u2013 should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.\u201d<\/p>\n Has Harvard\u2019s stance influenced other universities?<\/strong> Quite possibly. More than 100 presidents of US colleges and universities signed a statement<\/a> published on Tuesday 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.<\/p>\n Who will be the next pope?<\/strong> Predicting the outcome of the highly secretive papal conclave is very difficult. But at the moment, speculation is focusing on these men<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University fights back against threats to cut federal funding. Plus, tributes pour in for Pope Francis Good morning. Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging that it is trying to \u201cgain control of academic decision-making\u201d. What has Harvard\u2019s president said? \u201cNo government \u2013 regardless of which party is in power \u2013 … 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-39448","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\/39448","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=39448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}