"No government should seek to dictate what is taught or researched at universities"
Professor Walter Rosenthal, President of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK), is concerned about the political pressure that research and public and private universities in the United States have recently been exposed to: “The freedom of research and teaching and the autonomy of universities are essential guarantors of the performance and quality of universities and the research system. They are precious, indispensable – and at the same time, fragile. I am therefore deeply concerned about the growing political pressure on research and on public and private universities in the USA. President Alan Garber of Harvard University has made it clear: No government should seek to dictate what is taught or researched at universities. Ideological restrictions on who is admitted to study or who is employed at a university are equally unacceptable.”