- The Trump administration requires Harvard policy changes.
- Harvard rejects the demands, demands more than $ 2.3 billion of financing.
- The provision of $ 53 billion of often restricted to specific uses.
The United States Department of Education informed Harvard University that was freezing billions of dollars in future research subsidies and another aid until the oldest and rich university of the Nation admits several demands of the Trump administration, said a senior department official.
The measure represents the last save from a Trump administration willing to use the power of the federal bag to force institutions, from law firms to universities, to make radical policy changes or lose billions of dollars in federal subsidies and contracts.
In a letter to Harvard, the Secretary of the United States Department of Education, Linda McMahon, said the university must address concerns about anti -Semitism on campus, school policies that consider the race of a student and administration complaints that he has abandoned his search for “academic excellence” while using relatively few members of the conservative faculty.
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek subsidies from the federal government, since any will be provided,” McMahon wrote.
Harvard said that McMahon’s letter doubles the demands that would impose an “inappropriate and inappropriate control” on the university and makes new threats to retain funds “illegally” for research that saves lives.
“Harvard will also continue to defend themselves against the illegal overreach of the government aimed at suffocating the research and innovation that make Americans more secure and safe,” said a University spokesman.
The freezing of future financing represents a slightly altered tactic by the Trump administration, whose attempts to freeze the best existing funds of funds raised legal eyebrows.
Trump has pointed Harvard about accusations of anti-Semitism on the campus during pro-Palestinian protests, which the president of the United States has called “anti-Semitic”, in the midst of the current war in the Middle East.
Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say that the Government erroneously combines their criticisms of the regional conflict with anti -Semitism and their defense of Palestinian rights with support for extremism.
In recent weeks, the Administration began a formal review of almost $ 9 billion in federal funds for Harvard, demanded the university diversity of diversity, equity and inclusion practices, and taking measures to protesters.
Harvard rejected numerous Trump demands last month, calling them an attack on freedom of expression and academic freedom. He sued the Trump administration after suspending around $ 2.3 billion in federal funds for the educational institution, while committed to addressing discrimination on campus.
In his lawsuit against the Trump administration, Harvard said that government fund cutters will have marked “real -life consequences for patients, students, staff, (y) researchers” while endangering crucial medical and scientific research.
Harvard has an endowment of $ 53 billion, the largest of any American university, but funds are often restricted and used for things such as financial aid and scholarships.
