A Cuban-born Harvard professor who fled the authoritarian island government warns against the Trump’s administration efforts to impose ideological oversight on American universities – just like they do in Cuba.
I have been trying to make sense of the administration’s demands on Harvard, where I have taught for over ten years. The university described by officials is not the one I know. The Harvard I know is obsessed with excellence in knowledge production. It is a place where people at the apex of their disciplines and professions come to build new research agendas, advance their fields, and teach some of the brightest students in the world.
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