Leo Zuckerman Konkra universities

The university is one of the institutions that have been lost more in human history. Bologna, in Italy, is the first educational center in the Western world, to have developed for the first time in Europe and then extended all over the world.

Harvard University was the first university to be established in the United States, in 1636. This country is home today, many of the best research and teaching centers on this planet. American universities are one of the columns that explain the great economic success of the American nation.

In the Popular Leadership Guide, instructions to attack universities as elite and equal places. And yes, of course they are. No one can study,/, investigation and/or teach at the university, much lower in the most famous. Only the best students enter. Only the best vacation. Only the best are the teachers and researchers. This is the essence of the university.

Moreover, universities are the spaces that flourish with free thinking. The views of ideas are necessary to enhance knowledge through the scientific method.

All this angered populists. They want monochrome learning centers, as the leader’s doctrine is taught only as possible as possible. Inch centers, not teaching.

It is not a coincidence that the populists attack universities as well as judicial powers or media. In liberal democracy, these institutions work to independence from the government in turn. His role is to question those who practice power. They should not clap, but to criticize. Its strength is the word reason, against those who have political, economic and/or social power.

Trumphow Lopez Obrador At that time, independent universities, the media and the judiciary who dares to challenge their illegal decisions. As popular, they attack institutions that are not kneeling against them.

In the second period of his government, the President of the United States began undermining the academic independence of the main universities in his country. Under the pretext of fighting anti -Semitism (a worthy goal), it cuts the funding of the federal government.

First of all, it must be said that it is illegal to do so. The authority to set resources in the United States is Congress, not the executive authority. TrumpHowever, use the decrees to reach this kidney. In the judiciary, this decision stops, the CEO can cancel the flow of resources because it controls the federal government check book.

However, in addition, you have to see the demands that the president demands for universities to continue to get money. They go beyond the supposed battle against anti -Semitism. It participates in the independence of educational institutions by interfering in employing their colleges, organizing the content of educational programs and demanding the monitoring of foreign students.

The attack began against the University of Colombia, Matter. He canceled $ 400 million of federal subsidies for research projects. The university authorities resulted in blackmail Trump In addition to implementing the legitimate measures to attack anti -Semitism, such as the ban on the use of masks in protests against Israel, they agreed to restructure the Ministry of Studies in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, and to appoint a new director.

A shame for university autonomy.

Then they left against Harvard University, freezing two hundred million dollars of federal financing. Unlike Colombia, they did not fight: “The university will not abandon its independence or constitutional rights. Harvard or any other private university cannot interfere by the federal government. Therefore, Harvard University will not accept government conditions as an agreement on the principle.”

Savior of his style, Trump The bets have folded. The President wrote in the fact that Harvard University may lose the status of tax exemption and taxes are imposed on him as a political entity if he continues to enhance political, ideological and inspiring diseases/support/support for terrorism?

For financial affairs for any private university, it will be very difficult to start paying taxes. Trump He knows this and that is why betting in this new battle against independent institutions designed to ask, not praise for power.

x: leozuckermann