Harvard University has revealed it is not complying with the Trump administration’s list of requests for universities to change policies regarding employment, governance, student hospitalization and anti-Semitism.
With a letter issued On Monday, university lawyers criticized previous letters from the Trump administration for ignoring “Harvard’s efforts” to “change campus use policies,” addressing hatred and biased on campus, strengthening campus safety and security measures and strengthening other efforts.
The university added that the administration’s demands “invade the freedoms of the university, which has long been granted by the Supreme Court.”
“It is then unfortunate that your letter ignores Harvard’s efforts and instead presents to invade the freedom of the university, which has long been recognized by the Supreme Court,” the letter states. “The terms of the government circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by demanding destructive relief that is unsupported for alleged harm that the government has not been established by Congress and proven through the enforcement process required by law.”
“The terms first clarified in the March 31, 2025 letter will risk billions of dollars of losses by allowing Harvard to agree to these terms or risk billions of dollars in federal funding, saving lives, improving innovation, and allowing Harvard to play a central role in continuing the country’s scientific, medical and other research communications. “These demands expand to operate not only Harvard University but also medical and research hospitals that engage in life-saving work on behalf of patients. The university will not waive its constitutional rights, nor will Harvard or other private universities cooperate with the federal government.”
In a letter from April 11th address Harvard’s presidents Alan Gerber and Penny Pretzker, who are the chief members of Harvard University, said Harvard was “accused of failing to address both intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.
The United States is investing in Harvard University’s operations because it is valuable to a nation of academic discovery and academic excellence,” the previous letter states. “But investment is not a qualification. It only makes sense if Harvard University relies on supporting federal civil rights laws and promotes the kind of environment that creates intellectual creativity and academic rigor.
In a letter from Josh Groenbaum, Commissioner of Federal Acquisition Services. Shawn Queveny, acting advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Thomas Wheeler, acting advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, are part of a request by August 2025 that Harvard was asked to “produce meaningful governance reforms” in order to “produce meaningful governance reforms.”
Other requests require Harvard to “adopt and implement a merit-based employment policy and to halt all preferences based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin through related practices between employment, promotion, compensation, and faculty, staff and leadership.”
“By August 2025, the university will reform recruitment, review and admissions for international students, preventing students from recognizing hostile students to the American values and institutions engraved in the US Constitution, including a Declaration of Independence, including students who support terrorism and anti-Semitism,” another request reads.
Gerber criticized the list of requests from the Trump administration, saying, “Some of the requests outlined by the government are aimed at combating anti-Semitism, but the majority Representative Direct government regulations of Harvard’s “intellectual conditions,” according to NBC News.
The Trump administration has before It is listed We look at roughly $256 million contracts between Harvard University and $8.7 billion in “multi-year grant commitments” to the university.
Breitbart News reported in February that President Donald Trump chose civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell to lead a multi-agency anti-Semitism task force called the Task Force to combat anti-Semitism. The task force’s “first priority” was to “eliminate anti-Semitic harassment on school and university campuses.”
