When Beverly Daniel Tatum told a friend that she was writing a book about higher education, he replied: “I think being a college president has to be the hardest job in America.” Indeed, the academic year 2023-24 was an “annus horribilis for college presidents”, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
And that was before Donald Trump returned to the White House and sought to bend them to his will.
Over the past seven months the US president targeted elite universities, accusing them of fostering antisemitism, liberal bias and un-American diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. His administration has frozen billions of dollars in federal research funding to pressure institutions to align with its ideological goals.
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