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bostonglobe.com | Shirley Leung |Hilary Burns
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 5 episode of the “Say More” podcast. Shirley Leung: I’m Shirley Leung. Welcome to “Say More.” With the moving of tassels and tossing of caps, the school year has come to a close at Harvard University and what a tumultuous year it has been. President Donald Trump has gone to war with the nation’s most elite university. The White House has canceled a sweeping array of grants and contracts worth billions of dollars with no plans to let up.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
In its first legal victory against the Trump administration, Harvard persuaded a federal judge on Friday to block the government’s latest salvo against the school: banning the university from enrolling foreign students. US District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston said Harvard had shown it could suffer “immediate and irreparable injury” if its approximately 7,000 foreign students were forced to leave the country or transfer to another university.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns
CAMBRIDGE — It was an extraordinary exchange for extraordinary times. Danielle Allen, Harvard University professor of political philosophy and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate, sat on one side of the stage. On the other was Curtis Yarvin, a writer and online philosopher who thinks American democracy should be replaced by an absolute monarchy, or CEO-style leader.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Janelle Nanos
Harvard’s alumni span the political spectrum, and donations have surged since the university said it would stand up to the Trump administration, which has frozen $2.2 billion in federal funding for what it says is egregious campus antisemitism. But some major donors, including those with buildings named after them on the hallowed campus, have been frustrated with the university’s response, according to interviews with donors and administrators.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Hilary Burns
Share The unrelenting high-velocity attacks from the Trump administration have forced leaders of the nation’s premier universities to navigate an extraordinary and bruising balancing act, choosing when to take a stand in the face of continued threats while trying to mitigate the loss of federal funding.
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