Who would be a university president in America right now?
The writer is the president of The New York Academy of Sciences and former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
During the tumultuous years I was chancellor of UC Berkeley, I thought I had lived through it all: controversies over intercollegiate athletics, sexual harassment, debates over free speech, protests and riots, massive budget Дефицити и политическо напрежение на държавно равнище. От предходната година, след ужасното принуждение в Израел и Газа, нещата се завъртяха още повече отвън надзор. In the Ivy League alone, four of its eight presidents resigned in the space of a few months.
Now, within weeks of Donald Trump’s inauguration, we have seen draconian cuts at the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, threats to revoke funding for schools with racially inclusive programmes, and the cancellation of federal funding for research at universities such as Columbia and Johns Hopkins.
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