A duel committed against the president of the United States. The president of the prestigious Harvard University, Alan Garber, publicly opposed the directives of the Trump administration, a particular destined according to the White House to fight the semitism on the campus.
Enough to launch the Republican billionaire. This Wednesday, April 16, described the institution of four centuries of “joke that teaches hate and imbecility” of radical leftists, idiots and sparrows “on Wednesday, April 16.
The 47th President of the United States has threatened to deprive the University, which has about 30,000 students and formed 162 winners of the Nobel Prize, almost $ 9 billion in federal subsidies and the right to welcome foreign students. And this, two days after having reduced $ 2.2 billion in federal subsidies of several years in the establishment.
Republicans in the United States Congress announced that their role began investigation into Harvard this Thursday, April 17, accusing it of violating equal laws.
An “audit” of students’ opinions and teaching staff
At the beginning of April, the President’s administration demanded from universities the end of the “Dei” programs (diversity, equity and inclusion) and changes in programs that “feed anti -Semitic harassment,” according to a letter published by the Washington Post.
The main American universities, considered too left, are in the viewfinder of conservatives. Especially since the spring of 2024, when the mobilizations of the propalisy students against the war freed by Israel in Gaza were organized on their campus. Then, the Republicans accused universities of having failed in the protection of Jewish students and their presidents, including those of Harvard and Columbia, had resigned.
The Trump administration also sent Harvard on Friday, April 11 to Harvard on Friday, April 11, in particular, demanding that the university immediately indicate the federal authorities to foreign students who commit management deviations, and that it calls an external third party to verify that each faculty has a “diversity of views.”
An “audit” of students’ opinions and teaching staff also asked for the richest university in the United States.
Harvard will not give up “your independence”
So many requirements that have not passed Alan Garber. In a letter addressed to students and teachers, this Monday, April 14, the president of the University recalled that the institution had already initiated actions against anti -Semitism for more than a year. But, above all, he assured that he would not abandon “his independence or his rights guaranteed by the Constitution”, as the first amendment on freedom of expression.
“No government, whatever the ruling party, should dictate to private universities what they should teach, that can enlist and hire, or on what issues can conduct research,” he added.
This economist and doctor took Harvard chief in 2024 when the university was in full problems. It happened to the former president of Claudine Gay, accused of plagiarism and complacency against anti -Semitism on campus.
The research teacher provided the presidency since January 2024 before being finally appointed in August 2024 for a period of three years. Until now, Alan Garber, 69, had acted in the direction issued by the Trump administration. According to our ECOS colleagues, he, for example, appointed a conservative dean, while more than three quarters of the teachers claim to be progressive. Or, he explained, in December, that his university had to listen to criticism “with empathy and humility,” said Liberation.
It was also proposed to pacify the campus after the tensions generated by the war in Gaza. A few days after his arrival at the head of the institution, he announced “the creation of two working groups” one dedicated to the fight against anti-Semitism and the other to the fight against anti-musulm and anti-Arabs prejudices, “according to the University’s website. In this context, he launched speech groups, the” dialogues of the dialogues “that point to” promote the “civil dialogue and respect for differences.”
The student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, also reported in February 2024, that Alan Garber worked in “the creation of a work group responsible for studying an institutional neutrality policy.”
Harvard and Stanford graduate, professor …
Born in 1955 in a Jewish family in Illinois, Alan Garber has a double doctorate: the first in economics won in Harvard and a second of medicine, with research, obtained in Stanford. Therefore, he has taught economics and medicine for many years at this prestigious Californian university, where he founded two research centers dedicated to health policies, according to his biography on the Harvard site.
In 2011, he became Provost, Harvard University’s academic director, until 2024 before winning the presidency. He is also a professor at Harvard and conducts an investigation “on methods to improve productivity and financing of medical care.”
Barack Obama received the opposition from Alan Garber under the orders of the Trump administration. “Harvard has shown an example to other higher education establishments by rejecting an illegal and clumsy attempt to suffocate academic freedom,” said former Democratic president, a law in 1991 at the prestigious university in 1991. “Hopefully other institutions continue,” he added.
“Congratulations to Harvard for refusing to abandon his constitutional rights against Trump’s authoritarianism,” Senator Bernie Sanders said.
Source: BFM TV
