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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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Free speech, funding and academic freedom at U.S. colleges are under attack. Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber shares how his university is weathering the storm.
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| 1:13.4 | In November of 2021, then Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance spoke at the National Conservatism Conference. |
| 1:21.5 | His speech was titled, Universities are the enemy. |
| 1:26.1 | I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, |
| 1:30.9 | we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country. |
| 1:37.4 | Since then, Vance has, of course, become vice president of the United States. |
| 1:41.6 | The Trump administration in which he serves has turned the considerable power of the federal government towards bringing universities to heal. |
| 1:49.6 | It has cut billions of dollars in federal research grants to elite institutions. |
| 1:54.1 | President Trump has issued a slew of executive orders and actions targeting universities when it comes to free speech, academic freedom, anti-Semitism, |
| 2:02.6 | trans students, immigration, student loans, diversity, and more. |
| 2:07.5 | Now, at the epicenter of this sea change are the presidents of America's colleges and universities. |
| 2:13.8 | Some have either stepped down or been forced to resign. |
| 2:17.3 | In 2024, following an outcry against anti-Semitism on campuses, |
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