According to a new survey, Washington (AP) – A majority of adults in the USA disapproves the treatment of questions from President Donald Trump of questions related to universities and universities, since his administration increases the threats to reduce federal financing, unless the schools correspond to its political agenda.
More than half of the Americans, 56%, rejects the Republican President’s approach. The survey of the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research, while about 4 out of 10 agree, in accordance with its general approval of the jobs.
Since taking office in January, Trump has tried to force changes to the universities, of which he says they have become breeding facilities for liberalism and anti -Semitism. The limelight recently stood at Harvard University, where Trump’s administration frozen more than $ 2.2 billion in federal grants, threatened the school’s tax-exhausted status and demanded comprehensive political changes.
The Trump administration has also shortened other elite universities, including Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, on topics such as the treatment of pro-Palestinian activism and participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports. Harvard has framed the government’s demands as a threat to autonomy that the Supreme Court has granted American universities for a long time.
The survey shows a separation between the Target of the universities by the Trump government and an American public, which you see as the key to scientific research, new ideas and creative technology. About 6 out of 10 US -growing say that universities and universities make a positive contribution to medical and scientific research than negative, and a similar proportion favors the maintenance of federal financing for scientific research.
“Let’s talk about Harvard for a minute,” said Freddy Ortega, 66, a democrat and a retired military veteran in Columbus, Georgia. “The way he took all the money for financing and affects things that Harvard worked for improving the world.”
“A man shouldn’t have that much power,” continued Ortega. “This is something that the congress has to deal with.”
Ortega, who is Hispanian, also said that he was concerned about Trump’s attempts to disassemble himself throughout the US company in the US company in order to reduce diversity, justice and inclusion programs. “I came to the military. I know that the good thing that these programs are doing,” he said. “It changes the direction in which people’s lives will enter.”
The Republicans are divided into reductions in federal financing of the universities
Trump’s attitude towards university formation vibrates more among republicans, most of whom see College campus as places where conservatives are silenced and liberal ideas are not checked. About 8 out of 10 Republicans agree on how Trump deals with problems related to universities and universities – which is particularly higher than the proportion of Republicans, 70%who agree to his handling of the economy – and about 6 out of 10 say that they are “extreme” or “very” about liberal bias on campus.
However, the Republicans are more divided when they hold back the federal financing of the schools if they bow to Trump’s demands. About half are for this, while about a quarter is opposite and a similar proportion is neutral.
“I’m all for it,” said Republican voter Hengameh Abraham, 38, mother of two children in Roseville, California. It supports the cut of federal funds and rejects Dei programs. She said she had emigrated to America as a teenager from Iran and worked challenging to get to school without the support of positive action programs.
“Your racist identity, nationality and your background should not be a factor to accept college or get a job,” said Abraham. She supports Trump’s focus on campus anti -Semitism. When Propalestinian protests swept US universities in the past year, some of the demonstrator messaging anti-US were.
“I don’t think if you have an anti -American agenda or a slogan that you are allowed on a university campus in the USA,” she said.
In Harvard’s case, Trump has threatened to eliminate his tax exemption status, and his administration has introduced financing cuts. These measures are split in the general public: Almost half of the federal financing refuses to be a punitive measure, while about a quarter prefers this. About a quarter are neutral.
Charles Jolivette, 43, a college career consultant who lives in New Orleans sees Trump’s education guidelines as an attack on freedom of speak and colored.
“The president not only goes to someone he believes that he is an opponent, and anyone who is not compliant, but he attacks some of the most important elements of our society,” said Jolivette, Democrat. “It is widespread bullying by the President of the United States, who is supposed to cross the gear.”
The costs for tuition fees far outweigh other concerns
A main concern of most Americans is the cost of a university degree. About 6 out of 10 US -growing people are “extreme” or “very” concerned about the costs of the tuition fees. This concern is shared by the majorities by Democrats and Republicans and far predominates the concerns about anti -Semitism and liberal bias on the public campus.
“College costs a lot more than it is necessary. To get an apprenticeship, you shouldn’t have to break your paperback,” said Eunice Cortez, 68, a Republican near Houston.
Cortez, who originally comes from Mexico, did not go to college, but she made sure that her children born in the USA were proud that her grandchildren had a college degree. She supports Trump, but is concerned that some of his policies, including the financing cuts, make people who need tuition fees to receive an apprenticeship. As the government, she sees it to “put” in an educated society.
The survey shows a gap between Americans from universities and those without university degrees, which emphasizes a possible cultural crack that Trump confiscated in the past.
Most Americans with a university degree of 62%are against the financing of universities that do not meet the requirements of the president, while those are shared in favor of 3 in 10 in favor of 10 in 10, and about 4 out of 10 that they have no opinion.
Kara Hansen, 40, a registered independent in seminols, Oklahoma, is a few credits in front of a university degree. It supports the idea of reducing the educational department to upgrade things. However, she said that she was concerned about what to fear Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies” and a growing fear on the College Campus of expressing and expressing opinions.
“It feels like everyone has a snout,” said Hansen. “You cannot express yourself completely because you are afraid of getting into difficulties and having Trump.”
About 3 out of 10 US -growing people say that students or professors can exceed “a lot” on the university and the university campus. About 4 to 10 say that they can do this in “some” scale. The Republicans believe that their views are suffocated: About 8 of 10 say, liberals can speak their opinion “a lot” or “some” on the campus, but less than half say the same about conservatives.
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Gecker reported from San Francisco.
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The AP-NORC survey of 1,175 adults was carried out from May 1 to 5 using a sample from the probability base of the Norc base Amerispeak, which is designed as representative of the US population. The sales edge for adults in total is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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