Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Over 200 institutions have signed a statement, published Tuesday, calling for leaders in higher education to rise to the moment and commit to protecting the field, their staff and their students against the administration's sweeping crackdown.
40% : " Hundreds of colleges, universities and scholarly societies in the U.S. have pledged to resist the Trump administration's "unprecedented" all-out attacks on higher education as the president targets universities with massive funding revocations and other retribution.
25% : "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," the group said.

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