From The Hill via Yahoo News: The Trump administration is ramping up its war with Harvard University despite the president having previously hinted a deal was in the works. The White House is pulling nearly every lever at its disposal to try to get Harvard to bend the knee to its demands, threatening its accreditation and issuing a subpoena over international students in its latest moves this week. “We’re clearly seeing the emergence of a playbook by the Trump administration. They have been open about the fact that they are going to try to use every possible form of leverage they can find to compel institutions to bend to their will,” said Jonathan Fansmith, senior vice president of government relations and national engagement at the American Council on Education...
Harvard decried... the actions..., condemning the federal government’s findings that it violated antidiscrimination laws and insisting it has turned over the information regarding its foreign students it was legally obligated to...
“It does make you wonder why they feel the need to keep talking about having a deal when those deals don’t manifest. And I will say I don’t know where negotiations stand, but Harvard has been very clear in the past about what the red lines [are] for them,” Fansmith said, emphasizing the institution says it won’t give up control of its faculty...
Full story at https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-harvard-fight-escalates-president-100000076.html.
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