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Harvard Faculty Who Fear School’s Destruction Urge Trump Deal
Some faculty want Harvard to resolve the clash with Trump before punishing financial penalties cause irreparable damage to the school and the US.
Kit Parker is used to being an anomaly on Harvard University’s campus. The physicist — an Army Reserve colonel who served in Afghanistan — is a long-time critic of the school’s hiring practices and what he sees as liberal biases.
For months, he’s urged the university to address criticisms from the White House, even as the vast majority of his colleagues applauded Harvard’s decision to resist President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape higher education.