What is correct is that the president’s war in the academy has focused intensely on the Ivy League, the richly equipped collection of eight schools, most founded on the colonial era, which cost $ 90000 or more a year -eagica, the number lords numbered numbered represented less than 1 percent of the subgrade registration of the nations in the fall of 2022.
Trump’s attacks against this elite group: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania, have struggled to their political base. He is retaining, or threatening to retain, billions of dollars in federal funds of six of the eight schools because he says they are citizens of anti -Semitism and liberal indoctrination. Officials in higher education recognize failures, but call for the president’s repression a dangerous threat to academic freedom.
The Trump administration has attacked many other schools and universities for the possible anti -Semitism, about 60 in total. And yet, the eight IVIES are cultural touch stones for Trump. Beyond the Politics is a complex beer of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate, has long hosted a club that has never really accepted it.
“They do not return love,” said Alan Marcus, a business and political consultant who supervised the public relations of Mr. Trump from 1994 to 2000. After the president’s companies went through multiple bankruptcies in the 1990s, Marcus said that, as part of an attempt to return to his client, he tried to give Trump a discourse of the start of the university or received an honorary title.
“I called some people I knew at the meetings,” Marcus said. “But I laughed Essentially.”
Timothy L. O’Brien, a biographer or Mr. Trump said the president’s anger over the upper level of the academy was not surprising. “It has a long history of criticizing the elites for which it is desperately accepted to be accepted,” O’Brien said. As for the Ivy League, he said: “I could barely wait to enter itself.”
