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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins and Will Craft

For-profit colleges fund lawmakers who led attack on top universities over campus protests

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Representative Elise Stefanik speaks during a House hearing about antisemitism on campus on 5 December 2023. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

As antisemitism hearings on college campuses ignited late last year, US representatives Elise Stefanik and Virginia Foxx seized the spotlight, relentlessly attacking Harvard, Columbia and other top universities, portraying them as unsafe and incompetent.

“We must DEFUND the rot in America’s higher education,” Stefanik insisted in December, while co-authoring a bill that would withdraw federal funding from universities that do not participate in plans to curb campus protests. Foxx made similar calls.

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