Students walk through Harvard University's campus on April 17 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Students walk through Harvard University's campus on April 17 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mandatory Credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

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Attacks on Harvard by Trump administration have built for months. A timeline of the dispute

Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has made a major push to put America’s elite universities on notice over political ideology. But the groundwork for the White House’s stronger stance was laid more than a year earlier.