{"id":24370,"date":"2025-03-20T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:32:23","slug":"trumps-battles-with-colleges-could-change-american-culture-for-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24370","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many in higher education worry Trump\u2019s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.<\/p>\n

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In October 2023, three days before Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Columbia University\u2019s new president stood outside Low Library and posed a foundational question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat,\u201d she asked, \u201cdoes the world need from a great university in the 21st century?\u201d<\/p>\n

The president, Nemat Shafik, argued that the world required much. Rigorous thinkers who were grounded in the age\u2019s great debates. Researchers whose breakthroughs could transform societies. Universities that extended their missions far beyond their gates.<\/p>\n

Seventeen months later, Dr. Shafik is gone<\/a> and the Trump administration is offering a far different answer. The ideal Dr. Shafik described, much of it historically bankrolled by American taxpayers, is under siege, as President Trump ties public money to his government\u2019s vision for higher education.<\/p>\n

That vision is a narrower one. Teach what you must, defend \u201cthe American tradition and Western civilization,\u201d prepare people for the work force, and limit protests and research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI have not experienced, across 46 years of higher education, a period where there\u2019s been this much distance\u201d between the agendas of university leaders and Washington, said Robert J. Jones, the chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n

The outcome of this clash over the purpose of higher education stands to shape American culture for a generation or more. If the president realizes his ambitions, many American universities \u2014 public and private, in conservative states and liberal ones \u2014 could be hollowed out, imperiling the backbone of the nation\u2019s research endeavors.<\/p>\n

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Many in higher education worry Trump\u2019s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.In October 2023, three days before Hamas fighters attacked Israel, Columbia University\u2019s new president stood outside Low Library and posed a foundational question.\u201cWhat,\u201d she asked, \u201cdoes the world need from a great university in the 21st century?\u201dThe president, Nemat Shafik, argued that the world required much. Rigorous thinkers who were grounded in the age\u2019s great debates. Researchers whose breakthroughs could transform societies. Universities that extended their missions far beyond their gates.Seventeen months later, Dr. Shafik is gone and the Trump administration is offering a far different answer. The ideal Dr. Shafik described, much of it historically bankrolled by American taxpayers, is under siege, as President Trump ties public money to his government\u2019s vision for higher education.That vision is a narrower one. Teach what you must, defend \u201cthe American tradition and Western civilization,\u201d prepare people for the work force, and limit protests and research.\u201cI have not experienced, across 46 years of higher education, a period where there\u2019s been this much distance\u201d between the agendas of university leaders and Washington, said Robert J. Jones, the chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The outcome of this clash over the purpose of higher education stands to shape American culture for a generation or more. If the president realizes his ambitions, many American universities \u2014 public and private, in conservative states and liberal ones \u2014 could be hollowed out, imperiling the backbone of the nation\u2019s research endeavors.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24372,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24373,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions\/24373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}