Professors sue Trump administration over Harvard funding cuts

A group of US professors has sued Donald Trump’s administration over its threat to withhold $8.7bn in federal funding from Harvard University.

The lawsuit, filed by the American Association of University Professors and its Harvard affiliate, is one part of a growing effort by faculty, students and alumni to push back against attacks by the Trump administration on US higher education institutions.  

“Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important. But Trump is defying…