150+ University Leaders Denounce 'Unprecedented' Overreach and Political Coercion by Trump | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "The price of abridging the defining freedoms of American higher education will be paid by our students and our society.
57% : Those who did sign on to the statement warned that "the price of abridging the defining freedoms of American higher education will be paid by our students and our society.
46% : "We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding.
39% : The university leaders who signed Tuesday's statement said they "are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight." "However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses," they said.
37% : The open letter, organized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) and titled "A Call for Constructive Engagement," was hardly promoting "a radical idea," said the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at University of Texas at Austin -- but the school's president, Jim Davis, was not on the list of signatories. UT-Austin was one of several where police violently cracked down on student protesters last year when campus demonstrations expressing solidarity with Palestinians facing Israel's U.S.-backed bombardment spread across the country.
36% : "As leaders of America's colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education," reads the public statement released Tuesday, which was signed by university presidents and leaders including Felix V. Matos-Rodriguez of City University of New York, Maurie McInnis of Yale, Alan M. Garber of Harvard, and Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton.

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