After Harvard, Columbia University additionally defends in opposition to Trump | EUROtoday

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After folding at the start of March to the requests of the Trump Administration which had lower 400 million {dollars} of federal funds, Columbia University made again.

Following the instance of Harvard, the college on the middle of the pro-gaza protests of final spring undertaken to “not allow the federal government to ask to give up independence and autonomy”.

In a message arrived 12 hours after Harvard’s place to not bend to the administration’s requests – adopted by the freezing by Washington of two.2 billion {dollars} in analysis funds – the professional tempore president of Columbia Claire Shipman stated he learn “with great interest” the phrases of his colleague of Harvard Alan Garber and added that the University of New York will ” Government that could damage our institution and undermine useful reforms ».

Shipman, a former CNN journalist, said that any agreement in which federal officials dictated “what we train, what we’re searching for or who we take” would be unacceptable.