Over the past few months the Trump administration has been targeting a few Ivy League institutions pushing for changes around their internal practices and approaches to campus protests. Harvard University has had a special place in his crosshairs since the President of Harvard, Alan Garber, told the Administration that the school would not agree to the terms that they were dictating. 

Trump’s latest move: cracking down on international students has created a lot of question marks and legal filings. This week, the team at Trendency is looking at Americans’ opinions on this latest move.

Here are the key takeaways from this week’s chart:

• 👎The overall reaction hasn’t been positive: Americans in our national panel disagree with a majority of Trump’s actions to cut federal funding and grants to Harvard University and limiting or stopping international students from attending unless the University complies with his administration’s policies on things such as DEI. Americans agree with about one-third (36%) of the approach, while they are somewhere in the middle about 12% of the time.
• 🔵🔴Views are generally very partisan: While there are nominal differences by gender and race/ethnicity, the biggest differences occur along party lines, with Democrats most likely to disagree (87%), Republicans most likely to agree (71%), and Independents likely to either be in the middle with opposition averaging at 45% and support at 36%. 
• 🐣Gen Z is the least supportive: While Boomers are the most likely to agree with Trump’s actions against Harvard (43%), Gen Z is the most likely to disagree (66%), with their disagreement 11-18 percentage points higher compared to other generations.