{"id":146850,"date":"2025-04-16T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=146850"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:11:33","slug":"harvard-university-not-to-yield-to-trumps-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/146850\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University not to yield to Trump\u2019s demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Harvard University says it will not acquiesce to US President Donald Trump’s demands – whether it continues to get federal funding or not, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

“No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach,” Harvard’s president Alan Garber said in a letter posted on the university’s website.<\/p>\n

To remind, not long after Harvard refused to agree to the White House’s sweeping list of demands—which included directions on how to govern, hire and teach—the Trump administration froze $2.2bn of federal funds to the institution.<\/p>\n

Many students and alumni lauded the university’s decision to stand its ground, despite the consequences. Former President Barack Obama, an alumnus himself, called Trump’s move “ham-handed” and praised Harvard as “an example for other higher-ed institutions”.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvard University says it will not acquiesce to US President Donald Trump’s demands – whether it continues to get federal funding or not, the BBC writes. “No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach,” Harvard’s president Alan Garber said in a letter posted on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":146839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}