The Trump administration frozen a $2.2 billion grant to Harvard University on Monday after the announcement that elite universities would not comply with demands for reform to stop anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination.
As reported by Breitbart News:
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 fortifying 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.”
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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.
In response, the Trump administration has suspended roughly $2.2 billion, about $9 billion in risky federal subsidies.
Harvard Crimsona newspaper run by university students, It has been reported:
The Trump administration has abolished a $2.2 billion multi-year grant and a $60 million Harvard deal with Harvard for its decision to reject the White House’s request. This is a dramatic escalation of the crusades to the university.
The move comes hours after Harvard President Alan M. Gerber ’76 issued it. ren’s responsibility Of the Trump administration’s demands, they are forced and calling them beyond federal authorities.
The Federal Anti-Semitism Task Force wrote that Gerber’s decision was a clear indication that Harvard had refused to “commit to meaningful change” in order to address anti-Semitism on campus.
Harvard is the latest Ivy League university under scrutiny from the Trump administration and is one of ten universities across the country that are closely monitored by the Federal Anti-Semitism Task Force. One other person, Columbia University, chose to follow the administration’s demands, rather than risking federal funds.
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