Several Connecticut college presidents sign letter condemning Trump administration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The school leaders wrote that American higher education institutions share "the essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom," according to the letter.
57% : " Another alumni letter includes a list of demands, including that the Yale administration resist any "unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance," protect research threatened by funding cuts, "commit that no department, program, or structure of shared governance will be reorganized or eliminated in response to political threats" and work with other schools in "collective defense," according to the letter.
56% : Thousands of Yale alumni have recently signed public letters urging university administration to defend higher education from the federal government.
52% : The nearly 200 signees include leaders from multiple Connecticut colleges and universities, including private schools such as Yale, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, and Trinity College, as well as public schools like Eastern Connecticut State University and Connecticut State Community College.
46% : We will always seek effective and fair financial practices, but we must reject the coercive use of public research funding," according to the letter.
44% : "We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight.
43% : More than 150 university leaders, including at Yale University and other Connecticut schools, signed a letter Tuesday condemning the Trump administration's efforts to force higher education in line with its political agenda.
34% : The letter marks the first unified, mass response from higher education leaders amidst the Trump administration's broader barrage of attacks on universities over what the administration presents as fighting alleged antisemitism on campuses and eliminating what it says is unlawful and discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
31% : Higher education leaders from around the country released a joint statement denouncing what they said was "unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education," according to the letter, published by the American Association of Colleges and Universities on Tuesday.

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