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William C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus
Harvard Crimson
Excerpt: At a Tuesday meeting of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra braced faculty for long-term changes amid what she acknowledged would be a drawn-out struggle with the Trump administration.
“Now, in this time of unprecedented challenge — more than ever — we need your collective wisdom to chart a path forward,” Hoekstra said. “These efforts will not be easy. Nothing about the current time is easy. The issues facing Harvard, and higher education as a whole, are as profound as any time in our nation’s history.” The meeting came one day after Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced that the federal government would stop awarding grants to Harvard — and weeks into Harvard’s legal battle for more than $2.2 billion in frozen federal funds.
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