President to speak at the beginning of 2 schools approved by Trump
It seems that President Donald Trump is exempting two universities from his bitter battle against higher education.
In a brief publication Monday night about Truth Social, he announced that “he agreed to do the graduation speech in two really great places.”
Lucky schools? The University of Alabama and the prestigious West Point Military Academy.
The word of Trump’s graduation concerts occurs in the midst of their attempts to purge what he sees as an leftist ideology of American schools and universities.
Since assuming the position, the Trump administration has threatened to reduce billions of dollars in federal funds from schools that accuse of not protecting Jewish students during pro-palestinian protests last year.
Some universities have yielded to intimidation tactics. Facing $ 400 million in cuts to federal funds, the University of Columbia of New York City folded to the demands of the White House last month, agreeing to reduce protests on the campus and install a new supervision in the Program of Studies of the Middle East, in the south of South South of the School, among other concessions.
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Other institutions have fought.
Last week, Harvard rejected the demands of the Trump administration to review its hiring, admission and government processes or risk losing $ 9 billion in government funds.
“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can afford to be taken by the federal government,” wrote the president of the University, Alan M. Garber, in a statement earlier last week.
The White House quickly retaliates for $ 2.2 billion in subsidies of several years and, according to the reports, ordered the IRS to revoke the state -free state of the school.
Harvard’s decision to stay firm seems to have emboldened many of his companions.
On Tuesday, more than 220 leaders of the United States Higher Education System condemned “unprecedented government overreach and political interference that now endangers American higher education” in a joint declaration.