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Follow the podcast on your favorite app. Youtube | Apple | Spotify |wherever you get podcasts. It’s been a heck of a year in higher education. College presidents have resigned under pressure from the federal government. Foreign-born holders of student visas have been indefinitely detained for exercising their free speech rights. Billions of dollars in already-allocated research grants, to fight diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s, have been rescinded, when schools found themselves on the wrong side of the Trump administration. President Trump has brought the full force of the federal government to bear on colleges and universities, and no school is feeling the pressure as much as Harvard. In Season Two of our podcast miniseries, “The Harvard Plan,” we examine the tricky moral calculus universities like Harvard face as they try to protect themselves without compromising their values. Episode one publishes a week from today. Here is a preview of what’s coming.
