A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday. The executive order, Trump said, would “require colleges to support free speech if they want federal research” money. The federal government distributes more than $26 billion a year to colleges and universities for research purposes, according to the National Science Foundation. Trump is likely on strong footing with the proposed executive order, said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, an associate professor of education at American University. “There’s a history of the federal government requiring universities to do certain kinds of things in order to receive federal research funding,” she said in an interview.

Source: Washington Post March 02, 2019 19:23 UTC