Harvard University announced on Monday that the Trump administration had requested a freezer for more than 2.2 billion US dollars in grants after the institution had announced that they would defy the Trump government’s demands to limit activism on the campus.
In a letter to Harvard at the beginning of this month, Trump’s government had called for a broad government and management reforms at the university as well as changes in its admission guidelines. It also called for the views of the university audit on diversity on campus and the recognition of some student clubs.
Harvard President Alan Garber said that the university would not bend to the government’s demands. Hours later, the government frozen billions of dollars of federal financing.
“The government has and cannot rational connection between anti -Semitism and the medical, scientific, technological and other research that they have frozen that aim to save American success, to promote American security, to preserve American security and to preserve the position of America as the leading beginner in innovation,” wrote the university in its complaint.
“The government has also not recognized the essential consequences that will have the indefinite freezing of billions of dollars of federal research financing on Harvard’s research programs, the beneficiaries of this research and the national interest in promoting American innovation and progress,” says the lawsuit.
Government letter demanded changes to the leadership of Harvard
The Trump administration in the letter dated April 11th asked Harvard to improve the demonstrator harder discipline and to review international students for those who are “hostile to American values”.
It also called for comprehensive management reforms at the university, changes to the admission guidelines and the elimination of the recognition of the universities for some student clubs. The government also asked Harvard to examine her faculty and your student body to ensure long points of view in each department and, if necessary, diversify by receiving additional students and hiring new faculties.
Last Monday, Harvard said that it would not keep up, citing the first change.
The following day, Trump went to his social platform of truth and asked whether the university should lose its tax -exempt status. “
The Trump administration also threatened to block the university from enrolling international students.
Demises threaten the autonomy of the universities, says Harvard
The university frames the government’s demands as a threat not only for the Ivy League school, but also to the autonomy that the Supreme Court has granted American universities for a long time.
For the Trump administration, Harvard presents the first major hurdle in her attempt to force changes to universities, from which Republicans have become breeding sites of liberalism and anti -Semitism.
The conflict puts a strain on the many years of relationship between the federal government and the universities that use federal money to promote scientific breakthroughs. The money has long been an advantage of greater well -being to a simple source of the leverage for the Trump administration.
“Today we stand for the values that American university formation made a beacon for the world,” Garber wrote in the Harvard community on Monday.
“We stand for the truth that universities and universities across the country use their legal obligations and honor and their essential role in society best, without the government being the wrong intervention by the government,” he wrote.
“This is how we achieve academic excellence, protect open studies and freedom of speech and carry out pioneering research – and how we drive the limitless research that drives our nation and its people into a better future.”
