Harvard's President Alan Garber Talks About His Legal Fight With Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : " Mr. Rubin recalled one conversation in which Dr. Garber stressed the importance of ideological diversity in higher education.
54% : He wanted to clarify rules around protests, and when the university should make public statements, for example.
53% : In the eyes of Mr. Trump and many Republicans, Harvard and other elite American universities have become echo chambers -- places where students develop intolerance for political perspectives different from their own and shield themselves from ideas they find objectionable.
52% : About a third of Americans have little or no confidence in higher education, according to a Gallup poll published last year, up from 10 percent a decade earlier.
52% : " Twelve and a half years passed by, periods of political and social upheaval that transformed higher education, including a Black Lives Matter movement that brought new attention to diversity on campus and a fight over affirmative action that took Harvard to the Supreme Court.
51% : " Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School, said that he believed Dr. Garber understood the high stakes involved -- not just for Harvard but for all of American higher education.
49% : "The last few years have been a wake-up call," said Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychology professor who has warned that his university and other elite institutions have devalued intellectual and ideological diversity at considerable cost to their reputations.
43% : "The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families, is coming to an end," a White House spokesman, Harrison Fields, said last month.
41% : In a recent message to the Harvard community, Dr. Garber vowed to keep fighting federal intrusion.
40% : Last month, Trump officials said they would cut more than $2 billion in federal funds intended for the university, to force it to comply with a series of demands Harvard says violate the First Amendment.
29% : "I think that troubled him a lot, actually," said Robert E. Rubin, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and a former long-serving member of the Harvard Corporation, the university's powerful governing body.
21% : Dr. Alan Garber, president of Harvard, disagrees with President Trump about many things.

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