Over 150 College presidents sign the letter that restore the Trump administration “over -control”.

More than 150 presidents of the university and the university signed a letter on Tuesday in which the recent efforts by the Trump government to determine the guidelines of private university facilities in exchange for federal financing.

In the past few weeks, the Trump administration at several of the most respected universities in the country – including Harvard, Columbia and Princeton – billions of dollars at federal grants to some of the most respected universities in the state to make the universities change their admission procedures and punish student protesters.

The signatories of the letter ranging from large public universities to small schools for free arts include each of the Ivy League schools with the exception of Dartmouth College. The incumbent president of Columbia University, Claire Shipman, signed the public explanation after an earlier version of this article was published.

“As a leader of the American universities, universities and scientific societies, we speak with a voice against the unprecedented over -control of the government and the political interference, which now endangers the American university formation,” says the letter orchestrated by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.

“We are open to constructive reforms and are not rejected by legitimate state supervision,” the letter continues. “However, we have to be inappropriately against the life of the government in the life of those who learn, live and work on our campus.”

“We will always strive for effective and fair financial practices, but we have to reject the compulsive use of public research financing,” added.

Harrison Fields, a spokesman for the White House, said in an e -mail that the administration “uses equality and fairness and is not influenced by worthless letters by overpaid blowhards”.

So far, the Trump administration only has a break of billions of dollars of federal financing, which is of crucial importance for the activities of several universities, including Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. The movements are part of the wider effort of the government to “eradicate” anti -Semitism on the college campus.

Columbia has completed a list of the Trump administration claims in the exchange for the starting images to restore the financing last month. The claims included the introduction of a ban on mask in most cases; Setting an outsider for monitoring the Department of the Middle East, South Asian and African studies; commit to “greater institutional neutrality”; and include three dozen new security officers.

Compliance with the University of New York City led to outrage in the university community. The then interim president of Columbia, Katrina A. Armstrong, resigned a week later.

Similarly, Harvard was sent by the Trump administration a list of requirements in which the university tested the points of view of students and professors and switch off their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Although it initially looked that the university would pursue a similar approach in Columbia, Harvard ultimately rejected the administration’s orders.

Harvard, which was founded for more than a century in front of the United States, sued the administration on Monday and asked a federal judge in Massachusetts to reverse the termination of 2.2 billion US dollars to the university.

The letter from Tuesday also condemned the unprecedented efforts of the Trump government to deport international students.

In the past few weeks, the Trump government has revoked hundreds of student visa from foreign students, many of whom are the Middle East. The immigration authorities also arrested foreign students, some of whom were involved in propalestinian protests at universities last year.