People run at Harvard University at Harvard Square at Cambridge, Massachusetts on 17 April 2025.
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The US Education Department on Monday informed the Harvard University that it was a cold of billions of dollars in future research grants and other assistance, until the country’s oldest and wealthiest college did not accept several demands from the Trump administration, a senior department official said.
The move represents the latest Salvo from a Trump administration, which is ready to use the power of the federal purse, which is ready to force the institutions to make changes from law firms to universities, broader policy, or to institutions to lose billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts.
In a letter to Harvard, Linda McMahon, Secretary, Department of US Education, said that the university should address concerns about antismitism in the campus, school policies that consider a student’s race, and complaints from the administration The university has abandoned its discovery of “academic excellence” by employing some orthodox faculty members.
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer take a grant from the federal government, as no one will be provided,” McMahon wrote.
Harvard did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
The freeze of future funding represents a slight strategy by the Trump administration, whose efforts to freeze the top schools of the current funds raised legal eyebrows.
It has targeted Harvard’s allegations Antisamitism on campus During anti -Palestinian protest. Palestinian Hamas militants encouraged protests by US military attack on Gaza after the October 2023 attack on Israel.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has increased its works against Harvard.
It started a formal Review In approximately $ 9 billion in federal funding for Harvard, the university demanded a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, and some supporters crack the masks in Palestinian groups and protests.
Harvard rejected Many Trump demands last month, attacking them free speeches and educational freedom. The Trump administration was sued after the educational institution suspended about $ 2.3 billion in federal funding, while promises to deal with discrimination in the campus.
In his trial against the Trump administration, Harvard said that in the government funding cuts, there would be real -life consequences for patients, students, faculty, employees, (and) researchers, putting significant medical and scientific research in government funding.
The university has earlier labeled the demands of the Trump administration as overroaching and who will abandon the control of the institution to the government.
Harvard has a settlement of $ 53 billion, which is the largest of any American university, but funds are often banned and are used for things such as financial support and scholarships.