How Harvard became resistance HQ in Trump's war on woke campuses

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The university was certainly rocked by what critics said was a botched response to anti-Israel protests on campus.
60% : "It will be an interesting tussle between their lack of desire to take on Trump and them knowing that there is a value to the universities that they went to and a bigger value to preserving democracy and the constitution.
49% : Conservative political historian Harvey Mansfield, 93, who was Professor of Government at Harvard between 1962 and 2023, argues federal interference of this kind is far from ideal, but
48% : "I believe in limited government and what the Trump administration is doing is anything but that.
47% : " In scenes that made Oxford University's refusal in 1985 to give Margaret Thatcher an Honorary Degree resemble a peace festival by comparison, Trump publicly called for the university to lose its tax exempt status in response, arguing it was no longer "acting in the public interest".
47% : "What's at stake is the right of a university to govern itself and the academic freedom of its researchers, professors and students," he says, "so universities could use that to fundraise from their alumni and make up in private donations what they're losing in government funding.
42% : Since re-entering the White House, Trump has launched an unprecedented war on what he sees to be "woke" campuses across the US, and his administration did not take kindly to Harvard's opposition.
42% : " White House education source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the government was not seeking to take over higher education, but rather to end "cancel culture" and discrimination on campus.
41% : "Of course the federal government has influenced and regulated higher education in myriad ways since World War II - consider the Title IX rules developed under Obama and [Joe] Biden around sexual assault adjudications, for example.
39% : Trump's fury over the state of higher education in America runs deep.
37% : "If Trump manages to break Harvard, he breaks the higher education system, which needs to happen as it requires fixing" says Melissa Rein Lively, CEO of 'Anti-Woke" communications firm America First PR.
36% : Harvard will not save us but a strong alliance of faculty, students and academic institutions can," he says, accusing the White House of pumping out "propaganda" on the state of higher education.
33% : They have distorted what takes place on college campuses, told lies about what we do in the classroom and are using these distortions to make laws and take executive actions that transform higher education into their own political mouthpieces.
28% : Alan M Garber, Harvard's president, claimed Trump and his administration had tried to wield "unprecedented and improper control" of the university.
20% : "Some of their arguments I have sympathy for, but the White House trying to exercise more power is dangerous and to me a lot of what Donald Trump is doing is trying to keep himself at the centre of attention," says Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard and former adviser to president George W Bush.
18% : Trump was unequivocal in his criticism.
9% : So when Harvard University clashed with Donald Trump, it was always likely to get messy.

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