As the Trump administration intensifies its battle with elite universities, one Ivy League school is lawyering up with a Trump ally.
Dartmouth College announced this week that it has tapped Matt Raymer, the former chief counsel at the Republican National Committee, to serve as the college’s top lawyer and senior vice president. Raymer will not only run the general counsel’s office, but also serve on Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock’s leadership team and advise the college on “legal and strategic matters.” Raymer, who in January publicly backed President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, will also oversee the school’s Office of Visa and Immigration Services.
Raymer’s selection comes as Republicans dramatically escalate their attacks on higher education—training their ire on Ivy League institutions they’ve long accused of fostering liberalism and censoring conservatives. It’s left university leaders balancing a series of competing demands: preserving their relationships with an administration on which most rely for funding, defending free speech on campus and protecting non-citizen student activists Trump campaigned on deporting.
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