Trumps Chief Alma Mater adds name to the criticisms of the White House attacks against universities
Larry Jameson, president of the University of Pennsylvania, the Alma Mater of President Donald Trump, has joined a growing choir of academic leaders who condemn the treatment of the educational institutions of the White House.
On Tuesday, the American Association of Colleges and Universities published a letter signed by more than 200 leaders from schools and universities, including Jameson, who denounced the actions of the administration to higher education institutions as an unprecedented federal scope.
“As leaders of the United States colleges, universities and academic societies, we speak with a single voice against the unprecedented government overreach and the political interference that American higher education now endangers,” said the letter.
The Trump Administration has suspended billions in federal funds to multiple universities in attempts to put together the schools to lean to the will of the White House. The Government has cited critical manifestations of Israel’s actions in Gaza as reasons for cuts, and in some cases it has also pointed to the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion of schools.
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Trump graduated from the Wharton Business School in Penn in 1968.
In MarchJameson revealed that the federal authorities had issued “work stop orders” due to the university that allowed Lia Thomas, a transgender athlete, compete in the female swimming team in 2022. In a statement, Jameson said the school followed the NCAA’s policy and continues to do so.
The orders affected $ 175 million in investigations financed by the Government in Penn: a decision that Jameson warned could undermine the “investigation that saves lives and life, whose loss will be symptoms by society and individuals far beyond our campus in the coming years.”
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On Monday, Harvard University sued the Trump administration for freezing billions of dollars in federal subsidies. In a statement, Alan M. Garber, president of the University, said that the “overreach” of the government will have severe and lasting “repercussions.
“The investigation that the Government has put in danger includes efforts to improve the prospects of children who survive cancer, to understand at the molecular level how cancer spreads throughout the body, to predict the propagation of outbreaks of infectious diseases and alleviate the pain of the soldiers on the battlefield,” Garber said.