White House officials said President Trump planned to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon. He has spoken out in the past about withholding federal funds from universities that suppress free speech.
A view of the White House on Thursday. By Susan Svrluga Susan Svrluga Reporter covering higher education for the Grade Point blog Email Bio Follow March 21 at 1:01 PM President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon protecting freedom of speech on college campuses, surrounded by student activists who have said conservative views are suppressed at universities across the country.
[Questions abound after Trump threatens to strip funding from colleges that don’t support free speech] More than a dozen student activists from the group have been invited to the White House for the signing ceremony, Brown said. The White House also said it expects the ceremony will happen Thursday. While suppression of certain viewpoints on campus has been a long-running issue, he said it has worsened in recent years.
Trump strongly defended free speech on campus two years ago after University of California at Berkeley police canceled a talk by the provocative writer Milo Yiannopoulos when masked activists violently protested the speech, setting fires and throwing stones. Trump tweeted the next morning, “If U.C.
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