The policy would "devastate scientific research,” according to the plaintiffs, which include the American Council on Education and Brown University.
Alan Garber, the Ivy League institution’s president, said the university wouldn’t forfeit its “independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”
The move came shortly after the Ivy League institution’s president said it wouldn’t comply with a series of “unprecedented” mandates.
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