Conservative Harvard Professor Says Liberal Colleagues Resent Activists, Calls On School To Shun Federal Funds

James Hankins, a self-described blimpish professor astatine Harvard University, said that nan institution should activity to return less national costs successful bid to insulate itself against power from nan government. 

"The biggest time-waster astatine nan infinitesimal is dealing pinch nan fund cuts and hiring freezes group disconnected by nan Trump administration’s withdrawal of national funding," Hankins wrote successful a impermanent effort for The Wall Street Journal. 

"Many of my colleagues tin spot intelligibly capable that this situation has been triggered by progressive activists, who are predominantly postgraduate students aliases members of nan university’s immense diverseness bureaucracy. Many module wish that nan fanatics would conscionable unopen up and return nan target disconnected Harvard’s back," he continued.

The Trump management has pulled billions successful national backing from nan assemblage and is considering withdrawing further costs amid a conflict pinch Harvard, which boasts a $53.2 cardinal endowment.  

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James Hankins, a self-described blimpish professor astatine Harvard University, said that nan institution should activity to return less national costs successful bid to insulate itself against power from nan government.  (Getty Images | iStock)

Hankins said that nan irony of nan Trump administration's ire against Harvard is that galore of his wide colleagues really resent nan excesses of field protests that person placed nan schoolhouse successful nan news. 

"My consciousness is that nan awesome mostly of my colleagues don’t attraction for field governmental activism," he wrote. "As an out-of-the-closet conservative, I often find myself playing nan confidant to my wide colleagues. They sidle up and say, sotto voce, "Please don’t show anyone I said this," past proceed to unload their disgust pinch nan latest activistic outrages. They mightiness person identified arsenic leftists successful their assemblage years, but a predominant refrain I perceive from them now is ‘this is not what nan near utilized to guidelines for.’"

"Faculty astatine Harvard for nan astir portion are superior scholars and scientists who conscionable want to get connected pinch their work," he continued. "They person books to constitute and papers to publish. They want to walk connected what they person learned to nan adjacent generation. They resent it erstwhile activists create turbulence astatine section meetings and discarded everyone’s time."

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Hankins based on that Harvard and different elite universities request to trim their "financial dependence connected nan national government."  (Photo by Michael Fein/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Hankins based on that Harvard and different elite universities request to trim their "financial dependence connected nan national government." 

"Instead, we should fortify ties pinch loyal alumni who cognize and emotion Harvard," he wrote. "Alumni are loyal successful portion because they retrieve pinch gratitude nan school they received arsenic undergraduates. That makes them much intimately aligned pinch nan university’s existent mission: to thatch and to nutrient high-quality, unpoliticized research. Empowering alumni would transportation its ain risks, nary doubt, but successful my experience, they person a overmuch sounder consciousness than politicians and authorities bureaucrats of what Harvard should beryllium doing to thief nan state and itself."

Harvard has received astatine slightest $4.4 cardinal successful national backing done grants, contracts, sub-grants and subcontracts since nan first Trump management successful 2017, according to OpenTheBooks, a fiscal watchdog group.

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Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.