04.33 EDT Obama urges other universities to defy federal attempts to 'stifle academic freedom' after Harvard funding freeze Good morning and welcome to our US politics blog. Former US president Barack Obama has condemned the education department for freezing $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House. In some of his most vocal criticism of this Trump administration, Obama praised Harvard, the country’s oldest university, for setting an example for other higher education institutions to reject federal overreach into its governance practices. He wrote in a post on...
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