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Over the last couple of weeks, we've been bringing you a series that looks at the Trump

administration's attempt to change universities.

The series is called The Harvard Plan.

It's produced by WN.N.Y.C. in 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 this moment.

Ryan Enos, political science professor, wants Harvard to push back against the administration.

We are waiting on you, Harvard.

When will you speak up?

If you don't speak up, who will? Cancer researcher Camilla Naxerova, Harvard. When will you speak up? If you don't speak up, who will?

Cancer researcher Camilla 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's 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 that no one really expected.

And what's at stake isn't just their careers, but billions of dollars in science

funding and America's standing in the world. But these professors aren't the decision makers.

What do you do if you are the leader of a university? And what do you do if you're in the White

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