The US Education Ministry informed Harvard University on Monday that it freezes billions of dollars in future research grants and other help until the country’s oldest and richest college granted a number of requirements of the Trump administration, said a high -ranking department official.
The move represents the latest Salvo of a Trump administration who is willing to use the powers of the federal basis to force institutions from law firms to universities to make comprehensive political changes or to lose billions of dollars of federal grants and contracts.
In a letter to Harvard, Linda McMahon, Secretary of the US education department, said that the university had to concern concerns about anti -Semitism on campus, the school guidelines that consider the breed of a student and complaints of the administration, has given up their persecution according to “academic excellence”, while they employ relatively few conservative faculties.
“This letter should inform you that Harvard should no longer obtain grants from the federal government because nobody is made available,” wrote McMahon.
Harvard said that the McMahon letter doubles the demands that would impose the “unprecedented and inappropriate control” over the university, and that “illegally” threatens “illegally”. “Harvard will continue to defend against the illegal oversteer of the government, which aims to suppress research and innovations that make Americans safer and safer,” said a spokesman for the university.
The freezing of future financing represents a slightly changed tactic of the Trump administration, the attempts to freeze existing means to freeze existing means, legal eyebrow.
Harvard was aimed at allegations of anti -Semitism on campus
Trump has targeted Harvard for anti -Semitism’s allegations on campus during Propalestinian protests. The protests were triggered by the military attacks by US allied Israel on Gaza after the attack by the militant Palestinian Hamas on Israel.
Trump claimed that Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are anti-Semitic and personable for Hamas. Demonstrators, including some Jewish groups, say that the government incorrectly combines its criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza Strip with anti -Semitism and their lawyers for Palestinian rights with the support of extremism.
In the past few weeks, the administration in the federal financing of Harvard has started a formal review of almost $ 9 billion in the United States and called for the diversity, equity and inclusion practices of the university and the examination of some Pro-Palestinian groups and masks in protests.
Harvard rejected numerous Trump demands last month and called her an attack on freedom of speech and academic freedom. It sued the Trump administration after being exposed to more than 2 billion US dollars in federal financing for the educational institution and at the same time promised to combat discrimination on campus.
In his complaint against the Trump administration, Harvard said that the government’s funding will be “real consequences for patients, students, faculties, employees (and) researchers” and at the same time put a decisive medical and scientific research in danger.
Harvard has a US foundation of $ 53 billion, the largest US university, but the funds are often limited and used for things such as financial help and scholarships.
