New York: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has threatened to strip Harvard University of his state -free state after he rejected what he described as demands of the illegal government to change his academic programs or risk losing federal funds.
Starting with Columbia University, the Trump Administration has rebuked universities throughout the country for its management of pro-poustic student protest movement that discarded campus last year.
Trump has called on anti -American and anti -Semitic protests, the universities accused of seller of Marxism and the ideology of “radical left”, and promised to end federal subsidies and contracts to universities that do not agree with the demands of their administration.
Some professors, students and university presidents have said that protests are unfairly combining with anti -Semitism as a pretext for an unconstitutional attack against academic freedoms.
Columbia, a private school in New York City, agreed negotiations after the Trump administration said last month that it had finished subsidies and contracts worth $ 400 million, mainly for medical and scientific research.
The president of Harvard, Alan Garber, in a letter on Monday, said that the Trump administration made from the University of Massachusetts, including an audit to guarantee the “diversity of point of view” of its students and teachers, and the end of all programs for diversity, equity and inclusion of “unprecedented power records, without programming of the law” that violated the rights of constitutional expression rights Civilians
Like Columbia, he said that Harvard had been working to combat anti -Semitism and other forms of discrimination on his campus while preserving academic freedoms and the right to protest.
Hours after Garber published his letter, the Joint Task Force of the Trump administration to combat anti -Semitism said he was freezing more than $ 2 billion in contracts and subsidies to Harvard, the oldest and most rich university in the country. The administration did not answer the questions about what subsidies and contracts had been reduced, and Harvard did not answer a request for comments.
Trump, a Republican, said in a publication on social networks on Tuesday that he was considering whether to put an end to Harvard’s exempt status of taxes if he continued to press what he called “” disease “that inspires/supports terrorists?”
He didn’t say how he would do this. According to the United States Tax Code, most universities are exempt from the Federal Income Tax because they are considered to be “operate exclusively” for educational purposes.
White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that Trump wanted to see Harvard apologize for what he called “anti -Semitism that took place on his university campus against American Jewish students.”
He accused Harvard and other rape schools for Title VI of the Civil Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination by the beneficiaries of federal funds based on the breed or national origin.
According to Title VI, federal funds can be completed only after a long research process and hearings and a 30 -day notification to Congress, which has not happened in Columbia or Harvard.
