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Education Dept. Takes Aim at a Center on Middle East Studies. Scholars Say That Could Chill Academic Freedom.

The U.S. Department of Education's threat to strip federal funding from a Middle East-studies program run by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has alarmed academics, who are worried about the federal government's apparent interest in the content of college courses and programs — Middle East studies in particular.
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