From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Onger.

Over the last couple of weeks, we've been examining the Trump administration's assault

on universities in The Harvard Plan, the series we produced in collaboration with the Boston Globe.

In episode one, we met three professors at Harvard

who each have a very different take

on how their employer should meet the moment.

Ryan Enos, the Polyside professor,

wants Harvard to take a principled stand.

We are waiting on you, Harvard.

When will you speak up?

If you don't speak up, who will?

Cancer researcher Kamala Naxerova wants Harvard to make a deal to save her grant funding.

So I definitely want a deal.

I think that what we do here is extremely valuable.

And the reality is that without a deal, it's dead.

And engineering professor Kit Parker asked why they couldn't all just get along.

Parker is a Trump supporter.

When you go talk to him, immediately. If he talks to Putin and Kim here, talk to us.

They're all professors, bystanders in a fight no one really expected.

At stake, billions of dollars in science funding, and America's standing in the world.

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