{"id":17521,"date":"2025-04-05T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:21:00","slug":"obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/barackobama.medium.com\/conversation-at-hamilton-college-0c44228ac0bd\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campus speech<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also said schools and students should engage in self-reflection about speech environments on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you are a university, you may have to figure out, are we in fact doing things right?,\u201d he said during a conversation at Hamilton College in upstate New York. \u201cHave we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf not, and you\u2019re just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, that\u2019s why we got this big endowment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Obama\u2019s comments came as the Trump administration has threatened universities with major cuts. It took away <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/columbia-universitys-president-resigns.html\" title=\"\">$400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University<\/a> in March. It later <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-to-pause-175-million-for-university-of-pennsylvania-over-transgender-policy.html\" title=\"\">suspended $175 million to the University of Pennsylvania<\/a>, and said this week that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-harvard-funding-demands.html?\" title=\"\">it was reviewing about $9 billion in arrangements with Harvard<\/a> and its affiliates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Harvard, where the university has made efforts to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/01\/us\/republicans-harvard-funding.html\" title=\"\">respond to Republican criticism and concerns from Jewish students and faculty<\/a>, more than 800 faculty members have signed a letter urging their leadership to more forcefully resist the administration and defend higher education more broadly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Universities have received critiques from all sides, including those outside of leadership, saying they should do more. But the stakes are high, and large portions of endowments are often earmarked for specific causes that make dipping into them as a rainy-day fund difficult. Johns Hopkins, for example, has a significant endowment, but still <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/13\/us\/trump-cuts-johns-hopkins-university-layoffs.html\" title=\"\">laid off 2,000 workers<\/a> in the wake of federal cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many universities have seemed to be at a loss about what to do. But some presidents, including those at Brown and Princeton, which have also been told they will have millions in federal grants canceled, have said that they would fight back against the administration, sometimes framing it as a fight for academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Princeton\u2019s president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, called the targeting of Columbia University \u201cthe greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Obama\u2019s advice to lean on the endowment in the face of threats and stand on principle was also endorsed by his former Treasury secretary, Lawrence Summers, in a guest essay this week in The Times. \u201cBelieve me, a former president of Harvard,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/03\/opinion\/larry-summers-harvard-trump.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Summers wrote<\/a>, \u201cwhen I say that ways can be found in an emergency to deploy even parts of the endowment that have been earmarked by their donors for other uses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To many on the right, and even some on the left, one reason Mr. Trump is attacking higher education is because universities have become politically weakened, partly because they haven\u2019t taken the free-expression concerns of conservatives seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his remarks on Thursday, Mr. Obama also called on law firms, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/business\/trump-law-firms-milbank-deal.html\" title=\"\">which have also faced threats from the Trump administration,<\/a> to stand for their principles, even if they risked losing business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Obama told the crowd, which included college students, that everyone should stand up for the rights of others to say wrong and hurtful things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe idea of canceling a speaker who comes to your campus, trying to shout them down and not letting them speak,\u201d Mr. Obama said, according to a transcript on his Medium account, \u201ceven if I find their ideas obnoxious, well, not only is that not what universities should be about, that\u2019s not what America should be about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added, to applause, \u201cYou let them speak, and then you tell them why they\u2019re wrong. That\u2019s how you win the argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/us\/politics\/obama-trump-college-speech.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2845,2672,114,912,204,1258,5490,3821,3528,3527,2844,113,3095],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-barack","tag-columbia-university","tag-donald-j","tag-education","tag-education-department-us","tag-freedom-of-speech-and-expression","tag-hamilton-college","tag-harvard-university","tag-linda-e","tag-mcmahon","tag-obama","tag-trump","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"News\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2\"},\"headline\":\"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\"},\"wordCount\":615,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Barack\",\"Columbia University\",\"Donald J\",\"Education\",\"Education Department (US)\",\"Freedom of Speech and Expression\",\"Hamilton College\",\"Harvard University\",\"Linda E\",\"McMahon\",\"Obama\",\"Trump\",\"University of Pennsylvania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"U.S.\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\",\"name\":\"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1\",\"width\":1050,\"height\":550},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"description\":\"World News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization\",\"name\":\"World News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png\",\"width\":581,\"height\":581,\"caption\":\"World News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2\",\"name\":\"News\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News","og_description":"Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a","og_url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/","og_site_name":"World News","article_published_time":"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"News","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/"},"author":{"name":"News","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2"},"headline":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats","datePublished":"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/"},"wordCount":615,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1","keywords":["Barack","Columbia University","Donald J","Education","Education Department (US)","Freedom of Speech and Expression","Hamilton College","Harvard University","Linda E","McMahon","Obama","Trump","University of Pennsylvania"],"articleSection":["U.S."],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/","name":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats - World News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1","datePublished":"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-04-05T04:21:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1","width":1050,"height":550},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/obama-calls-for-universities-to-stand-up-to-trump-administration-threats\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/","name":"World News","description":"World News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#organization","name":"World News","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/cropped-download.png","width":581,"height":581,"caption":"World News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/#\/schema\/person\/1d8ae7348e048cb7984f26b4dd818ff2","name":"News","url":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1","medium":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=300&resize=300,300&ssl=1","medium_large":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=768&resize=768,0&ssl=1","large":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1024&resize=1024,1024&ssl=1","1536x1536":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1536&resize=1536,1536&ssl=1","2048x2048":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=2048&resize=2048,2048&ssl=1","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=392&resize=392,272&ssl=1","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=390&resize=390,205&ssl=1","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=130&resize=130,90&ssl=1","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=800&resize=800,445&ssl=1","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1400&resize=1400,600&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1155&resize=1155,480&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=600&resize=600,417&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=285&resize=285,450&ssl=1","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=575&resize=575,198&ssl=1"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"News","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e85cf08852547781a5f631f3713dbb5197ed4b54e32ae19c7d5769b8c8504897?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Former President Barack Obama urged universities to resist attacks from the federal government that violate their academic freedom in a","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["U.S."],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":24,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":4,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=1050&resize=1050,550&ssl=1",1050,550,false],"medium":["https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=300&resize=300,300&ssl=1",300,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/04\/multimedia\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf\/04trump-news-obama-higher-ed1-wbhf-facebookJumbo.jpg?w=150&resize=150,150&ssl=1",150,150,false]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"News","author_link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/author\/admin\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e85cf08852547781a5f631f3713dbb5197ed4b54e32ae19c7d5769b8c8504897?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-33\">U.S.<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}