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The Trump administration is targeting higher education, colleges and universities across the United States.
It's scrutinizing and criticizing how administrators responded to Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7,
2023, Israel's response to it, and the protest that followed.
It's demanding changes to the way schools approach free speech on campuses,
and it's threatening to freeze billions of dollars' worth of federal funding for research.
This is a precarious moment for the academy, worrisome to Christopher Icegruber,
who's the president of Princeton University, one of the oldest and highest ranked schools in the U.S.
We've never seen the use of federal funding in the way that it is being used now to try to control universities,
and if we really go down that road, that is a very dangerous road to go down.
Icegruber says Princeton, like Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania,
has been notified that some of its federal funding is under review.
Icegruber confirmed