Hyderabad, June 9 -- US President Donald Trump has targeted top US universities during his second term. He has been waging a war on Ivy League universities for the past few weeks. He has particularly targeted institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania. This move has shocked the American higher education system. Academia now faces a significant challenge fighting against the administration.

Trump's attacks also have a political dimension. They are viewed as a conservative strategy to reduce the influence of liberalism in higher education. They could be aimed at eroding the Democratic Party's traditional support base.

The affected universities, which include those...