A recent survey at Harvard University revealed that 70% of faculty members oppose government micromanagement of the institution. The survey highlighted a strong consensus among the faculty that while the government has a legitimate interest in protecting students from harassment and discrimination, it should not interfere with the internal operations of the university. Additionally, a significant majority of the faculty believe that the government should not control what its members think. These statistics underscore the faculty’s stance on maintaining autonomy in academic and administrative matters.
Anderson Cooper 360°
@AC360
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Apr 14 “This is government overreach in the extreme. It’s micromanagement in service of autocracy”: Harvard professor Cornell William Brooks responds to the Trump administration’s decision to freeze over $2 billion in federal grants for the university.
TechSignals
@TechSignalsonX
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Apr 14 Harvard built its empire on federal money, affirmative action, and tax-exempt privilege.Now it wants to wrap itself in the Constitution when accountability knocks. If you take billions from taxpayers, influence national policy, and shape the elite ruling class, you don’t get
Conor Friedersdorf
@conor64
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14h There is in fact a strong principled objection to the federal government micromanaging private institutions, even for something as important as civil rights violations, and forcing plagiarism checks goes well beyond invoking civil rights law as a fig leaf — it’s naked overreach
Macrophysiological System
@InVitroFuture
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Apr 14 Encouraging detail in the government’s attempt to extort Harvard into surrendering its academic freedom: they’re trying to turn tenured faculty and admin against each other, co-opting a longstanding (and legitimate) campaign for stronger faculty governance
Ed Kwok
@kwok_xian
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7m President of Harvard University Alan M. Garber:“No government should dictate what private universities can teach, who they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue”
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