Harvard has helped itself recover from institutional slips while a massive rallying of peer institutions fortified Harvard’s defense from Trump administration attacks — which had paradoxical consequences beneficial to the Ivy League institution.
In particular, President Trump’s attack on Harvard have forced it to accelerate its focus on repairing weaknesses which were legitimately raised, but his escalating ideological intrusion into private institution decision-making over staffing and curriculum content, freedom of expression, and funding for vital objective research led to a surge of sympathetic support from across American society as well as among key constituent groups from donors and applicants to peer institutions.
