What is right is that the president’s war in the academic world has been strongly focused on the Ivy League, the rich gifted collection of eight schools, which was most founded in the colonial era, costing $ 90,000 or more a year, sending a disproportionate number of graduates to the leadership of the US leaders.
Mr Trump’s attacks on this elite group – Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania – have attracted him to his political base. It withholds or threatens to withhold, billions of dollars in federal funding from six of the eight schools because he says it is an acropolis of anti -Semitism and liberal catechism. Officials in higher education recognize failures, but call on the suppression of the President a dangerous threat to academic freedom.
Trump’s administration has targeted many other colleges and universities for possible anti -Semitism, about 60 in total. And yet the eight Ivies are cultural plates for Mr Trump. Apart from politics it is a complex preparation of dissatisfaction and reverence that the president, a graduate of the Ivy League, has long been a club that has never really accepted him.
“They do not return love to him,” said Alan Marcus, a business and political adviser who overseered Mr Trump’s public relations from 1994 to 2000, after the president’s companies went through the multiple bankruptcies in the 1990s, Mr Marcus said that his client tried. deliver the college address or obtain a degree in honors.
“I called some people I knew on the boards,” Mr Marcus said. “But I really got laughed.”
Timothy L. O’Brien, a biographer of Mr Trump, said that the president’s enemy for the upper academic academic scale was no surprise. “He has a long history of criticism of elites who desperately wants to be accepted,” Mr O’Brien said. As for the Ivy Championship, he said, “he could wait to get into himself.”
