From Higher Ed Dive: “Three dozen colleges and universities have backed Harvard University in its lawsuit against the Trump administration over federal grant cancellations and freezes that followed the Ivy League institution’s rejection of sweeping policy demands. In a joint amicus brief filed last week, Harvard’s peers decried the funding disruption at the institution, arguing that “wholesale termination of federal research funding at just one leading university can have devastating effects on scientific progress and the public welfare.” Read more here.