College presidents from 170 schools including Harvard and Princeton sign letter rebuking Trump administration ‘overreach’

The higher education community is pushing back against the Trump administration’s treatment of colleges and universities. On Tuesday, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a global membership organization, published a joint statement condemning the administration’s ongoing threats to withhold federal funding from colleges and universities.

“We speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education,” the letter reads.