- The Trump administration requests Harvard policy changes.
- Harvard rejects requests, continues more than $ 2.3 billion in funding reduction.
- The endowment of $ 53 billion in Harvard is often limited to specific uses.
The United States Department of Education informed Harvard University on Monday, which it was frozen billions of dollars in future research subsidies and other aid until the oldest and richest college in the country concedes to several requests from the Trump administration, said a senior department.
This decision represents the last salvo of a Trump administration willing to use the power of the federal bag to force institutions, from law firms to universities, to make policy changes or lose billions of dollars in federal subsidies and contracts.
In a letter to Harvard, the secretary of the United States department, Linda McMahon, said that the university must respond to concerns concerning anti-Semitism on the campus, school policies which consider the breed of students and the complaints of the administration according to which it has abandoned its pursuit of “academic excellence” while employing relatively few members of the conservative faculty.
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer ask for subsidies from the federal government, because none will be provided,” wrote McMahon.
Harvard said that McMahon’s letter doubles requests that would impose “unprecedented and inappropriate control” on the university and would constitute new threats to “illegally” retain the funding for rescue research.
“Harvard will also continue to defend himself against the overtaking of the illegal government aimed at stifling research and innovation that make Americans safer and safer,” said a university spokesperson.
The free financing freezing represents a tactic slightly modified by the Trump administration, whose gel attempts from existing funds have raised legal eyebrows.
Trump targeted Harvard for allegations of anti-Semitism on campus during pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which the American president qualified “anti-Semitic”, in the middle of the in progress in the Middle East.
The demonstrators, including certain Jewish groups, say that the government wrongly confuses their criticism of regional conflicts with anti -Semitism and advocacy for Palestinian rights with support for extremism.
In recent weeks, the administration has started an official examination in nearly $ 9 billion in federal funding for Harvard, demanded the diversity of the university ban, inclusion actions and practices and the reprimand against the demonstrators.
Harvard rejected many Trump requests last month, calling them an attack on freedom of expression and academic freedom. He continued the Trump administration after suspending approximately $ 2.3 billion in federal funding for the educational establishment, while committing to fighting discrimination on the campus.
In his trial against the Trump administration, Harvard said that government financing reductions will have “real consequences for patients, students, teachers, staff (and) researchers” while endangering crucial medical and scientific research.
Harvard has an endowment of $ 53 billion, the largest in all American universities, but funds are often restricted and used for things such as financial aid and scholarships.
