The Trump administration said a few hours after the elite colleges rejected the White House’s request, the Harvard University Federal Fund has frozen more than $ 2 billion (£ 1.5 billion).
“Harvard’s statement strengthens the way of qualifications in a unique problem in the most famous universities and universities in our country today.”
The White House sent a list of requests to Harvard last week, which was designed to fight anti -Semitism on campus. This included governance change, recruitment practices and admissions procedures.
Harbor de rejected it and said the White House is trying to “control” the community.
It was the first US university that the Trump administration ignored the pressure to change the policy. The wide change required by the White House would have changed the operation and suspended a large amount of control over the government.
Trump accused the university campus of university campuses that could not protect Jewish students last year as a protest against the US support for Gaza and Israel.
President Alan Garber said in a letter to the Harvard community on Monday that the White House sent a “updated and expanded demand list” with a warning that the university should “comply” to maintain “financial relations” with the government on Friday.
“We informed the legal advisor that we would not accept the agreement proposed by the administration,” he wrote. “The university will not give up independence or give up the right of constitution.”
Garber added that the university “did not accept lightly” the university’s duty to fight anti -Semitism.
“Some of the demands that the government summarizes are aimed at fighting anti -Semitism, but most represent direct government regulations on Harvard’s ‘intellectual conditions’,” he said.
Shortly after his letter, the Ministry of Education said it signed a $ 2.2 billion subsidy and a $ 60 million Harvard.
“The turmoil of learning that has bothered campuses in recent years is unacceptable,” he said.
“The harassment of Jewish students is unbearable. If the elite college wants to take the problem seriously and continue to receive taxpayer support, it is time to promise meaningful changes,” he added.
The White House said on Friday, Harvard said, “We haven’t responded to the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment in recent years.”
This letter included 10 categories of the proposed change that Harvard said in order to maintain a “financial relationship with the federal government.”
Some changes include: reports to US values ”hostile” to the US value; Make sure each academic department is “diverse of perspectives.” And hiring the parties approved by the external government and “harassing most fuel anti -Semitism”.
The letter ordered the university to take disciplinary action against the “violation” that occurred during the protest on campus for the past two years. It also requires the end of the diversity, equity and inclusive policies and programs of the university.
After his inauguration, President Trump had to deal with anti -Semitism and resolve diversity practices.
In December 2023, the president questioned at a tensioned council hearing accused of not protecting Jewish students after the Israeli Hamas War two months ago.
Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, later apologized for a hearing that later demanded the murder of Jews, but it depends on the context of whether such an opinion violates Harvard’s Code of action.
In addition to the argument of plagiarism, that opinion, She led to resign in the post a month later..
In March, the Trump administration said that Harvard’s federal contracts and subsidies were reviewed about $ 226 million, and more than $ 8.7 billion were considered for many years of subsidies.
Harvard professors filed a lawsuit against the government illegally attacking the freedom and academic freedom of the media.
The White House previously accused $ 400 million in the Federal Fund at Columbia University, fighting anti -Semitism and not protecting Jewish students on campus.
Linda Mcmahon Minister Linda Mcmahon said: “The university must comply with all federal loan discrimination if you receive the Federal Fund.”
