Princeton has become the latest university to be targeted by the Trump administration, as the federal government pauses dozens of federal grants to the school. The news comes after the Trump administration threatened to cut off more than $8.7 billion to Harvard and earlier suspended $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania and $400 million to Columbia University. In all cases, the Trump administration has claimed to be fighting antisemitism, citing the schools’ responses to student-led campus protests in solidarity with Gaza. “It’s time for us to step back … and think more critically about how we run our universities,” says former Columbia law professor Katherine Franke, who says students from abroad, even those with green cards and U.S. citizenship, are now “terrified” of being swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown. “It feels like a kind of racial and ethnic cleansing that is happening on our campuses.”
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