Harvard rejects Trump admin's proposal for federal funding

Harvard gets database of demands from Trump medication and much apical stories

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Harvard University said Monday it volition not judge an statement projected by the Trump medication for continued national funding, saying "the assemblage volition not surrender its independency oregon relinquish its law rights." 

On March 31, the medication said it was reviewing astir $9 cardinal successful grants and contracts with the Ivy League instauration successful Cambridge, Massachusetts "to guarantee the assemblage is successful compliance with national regulations, including its civilian rights responsibilities." The Education Department is investigating alleged antisemitic incidents connected assemblage campuses, and President Trump has threatened to propulsion backing from universities that let what helium says are "illegal protests."

A letter sent to Harvard connected April 11 outlined a bid of conditions Harvard needed to conscionable to support a "financial relationship" with the national government. The demands included enactment reforms, an contiguous halt to diversity, equity and inclusion policies, an audit of "viewpoint diversity" among students and faculty, and "meaningful discipline" for students who violated schoolhouse policies erstwhile a pro-Palestinian tent encampment went up connected Harvard Yard. 

In March, the Trump medication announced it would be canceling $400 million successful grants and contracts to Columbia University, alleging schoolhouse had "continued inaction successful the look of persistent harassment of Jewish students."  

Harvard effect to Trump administration

Harvard president Alan Garber said the schoolhouse has taken respective steps to code antisemitism and "we program to bash overmuch more." But helium said Harvard volition not judge the projected statement that "goes beyond the powerfulness of the national government."

"The University volition not surrender its independency oregon relinquish its law rights," Garber said successful a statement. 

Garber said federally funded probe astatine Harvard has led to breakthroughs successful the medical, engineering and technological fields.  

"For the authorities to retreat from these partnerships present risks not lone the wellness and well-being of millions of individuals, but besides the economical information and vitality of our nation," helium said.

Harvard said successful March it would beryllium freezing hiring, citing "substantial fiscal uncertainties driven by rapidly shifting national policies." The assemblage said successful 2024 that it received $686 cardinal from the national government, the largest root of enactment for research.

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