white House Letter sent Harvard University Underlining a list of demands about the university’s work and admission, it was sent without the authority, According to New York TimesCiting two anonymous people familiar with the matter.
A letter of April 11, which demanded Harvard Remove your DEI programs and screen international students for conceptual concerns between other comprehensive changes, “unauthorized”, familiar with the matter told the Times.
The contents of the letter were authentic, but “according to time, used to eat separately inside the administration of how it was done wrong.”
On this letter, Commissioner of General Services Administration, Scene R. Kavani, Acting General of the Department of Health and Human Services and Thomas E. The wheeler was signed by the Acting General Counsel of the Acting General Council of the Department of Education.
A Harvard spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC that “Harvard was signed by three federal officials on Friday, 11 April, placed on the official letterhead, a senior federal officer’s e-mail was sent from inbox, and promised on 11 April.”
The spokesperson said, “The recipients of such correspondence from the US government – even when there are extensive demands that are surprising in their overlapping – do not question its authenticity or severity,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesman said, “It is not clear for us that between the recent words and deeds of the government, there were mistakes or what the government really meant to do and say.”
“But even though the letter was a mistake, the action taken by the government this week is the results of real -life for students, patients, employees and American higher education in the world.”
The White House did not immediately respond to the CNBC request to comment on the New York Times report.
April 11 letter set between a public quarrel White House and Harvard,
The university on Monday dismissed the demands of the White House, which was put in front of the April 11 letter, which threatened the federal funding for the university about $ 9 billion.
The White House quickly evacuated and in response, it would freeze about $ 2.2 billion in the grant to the university.
According to The New York Times, the April 11 letter came as lawyers at Harvard University, interacting with the White House how the school handled antisementism and other issues.
