President Donald Trump’s government has announced that it will cut $ 450 million into Harvard University subsidies, a day after the institution’s president criticizes the government for threatening fundamental freedoms.
The most recent cuts, announced on Tuesday (13) by the joint task force to combat anti-Semitism ,.
On Monday (12), President Alan Garber wrote to the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, denying the allegation that the university has a party political bias and warning that the government’s “internal” threatening fundamental freedoms.
The government coalition criticized Harvard on a letter on Tuesday for not facing “widespread racial discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment.”
“The Harvard Campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a fertile ground for signaling virtue and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it is not academic freedom; it is institutional deprivation,” wrote the officers.
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The White House also criticized other universities, such as Columbia, Princeton, Cornell and Northwestern, expanding their criticisms of the diversity efforts of these institutions.
However, in recent weeks, it has focused on Harvard and its alleged democratic biases. .
The Trump administration attacked Harvard, criticizing the university’s response to increased anti -Semitism on campus after Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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A Harvard representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the latest financing cuts.
Republican parliamentarians presented on Monday legislation that would significantly increase taxes on the country’s richest universities, including Harvard.
According to the project, Harvard and four other institutions would pay a 21% fee of their net investment revenue compared to the current rate of 1.4%.
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In the letter sent to McMahon, Garber detailed recent changes in Harvard, including revisions in disciplinary procedures, actions to combat anti -Semitism, and efforts to encourage freedom of thought and expression.
“Harvard’s efforts to achieve these goals are being undermined and threatened by the federal government’s intrusion in the constitutional freedoms of private universities and the continuing disrespect of the government to comply with Harvard’s law,” Garber wrote.
The government added to the letter on Tuesday that the Harvard Law Review He granted a $ 65,000 scholarship to a protester who faced criminal accusations for assaulting a Jewish student on the campus, a decision that, according to the government, was “revised and approved” by a teacher committee.
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“There is a dark problem on the Harvard campus, and by prioritizing appearance instead of responsibility, institutional leaders have resigned from the university’s claim to the support of taxpayers,” wrote the government’s task force officers to combat anti-Semitism in a statement.
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