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Harvard University is fighting back against the Trump administration. On Monday, Harvard president Alan Garber wrote an open letter to the Trump administration rejecting a list of sweeping demands it had made of the school. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Garber said. Since then, the Trump administration has been steadily escalating its threats against the school — making the world’s richest university the new front line in Trump’s war on higher education. Below are the latest developments, as well as analysis and commentary, on the standoff.
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