The Trump administration is pursuing fines against universities, accusing them of inadequately addressing antisemitism, following Columbia University’s agreement to a $220 million deal. Harvard is a principal target in these efforts, which also involve other institutions like Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, and Brown. The Columbia agreement has sparked mixed reactions, with criticism from some academic staff regarding the ethics of using financial penalties as leverage for educational reforms. Others, however, see the deal as a positive step toward maintaining research funding and implementing structural changes in university policies.
The means being used to push through these reforms are as unprincipled as they are unprecedented. Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals.
Condemnation and praise from faculty, students, and alumni reveals a campus deeply divided since the beginning of Israel's war in Gaza.
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