- Harvard says that the federal demand violates academic freedom.
- Some Harvard professors have already filed a sue on Trump Admin.
- The US government has frozen federal funds for many universities.
Harvard on Monday dismissed several demands from the Trump administration, stating that it would eliminate school control to a orthodox government that would dangerly portray universities as the leftist.
Within a few hours of taking his stand, Harvard, the administration of President Donald Trump announced that it was freezing $ 2.3 billion in federal funding in the school.
Last month by the Trump administration, the funding comes after the freeze that he was reviewing $ 9 billion in federal contracts and as a grant to Harvard as part of a crack as a grant claims that it is an antisemiatiism that exploded in college premises during Palestinian protests in the last 18 months.
On Monday, the Department of Forces, the Department of Education, has been accused of harassing the spatial mentality in our country’s most prestigious universities and colleges – this federal investment does not come with the responsibility of maintaining laws of civil rights. “
The Exchange Trump enhances high-dot disputes between the administration and some of the world’s richest universities, which have expressed concern about speech and educational freedom.
The administration has frozen hundreds of million dollars in federal funding for many universities, pressurizing institutions to change policy and says what it says that failure to fight antisementism on the campus.
Exile proceedings against some detained foreign students participating in Palestinian demonstrations have begun, while the visa has been canceled for hundreds of other students.
Harvard President Elon Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that the demands made by the Education Department last week will threaten the federal government as “controlling the Harvard community” and “dedicated to school values” as a private institution, dedicated to search, production and the spread of knowledge.
“Any government – whatever party is in power – should decide what private universities can teach, which they can accept and hire, and what are the fields of studies and inquiry they can pursue,” Garber wrote.
However, he also said, Given the allegations of antisemitism, “As we defend Harvard, we will continue to nurture a prosperous culture of open investigation in our premises; developing the equipment, skills and practices needed to attach to each other creatively with each other; and comprehensive the intellectual and attitude within our community.”
The issue of antisemitism was exploded at the campus before Trump took over for the second term, after the Palestinian student protests in several universities last year.
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement on Monday that Trump was working to re-make higher education great by abolishing the anti-antagonistic anti-antagonistic and federal taxpayers do not fund the support of Harvard’s dangerous racial discrimination or racially motivated violence, ensuring dollar. “
In a letter on Friday, the Education Department said Harvard “had failed to meet the terms of intellectual and civil rights justifying federal investment.”
The department demanded that Harvard, faculty, work to reduce the impact of employees and students, who are “more committed to activism than scholarship” and audit each department’s faculty and an external panel of students to ensure “approach diversity”.
The letter also states that Harvard, by this August, only the faculty should be appointed and students should accept on the basis of merit and stop all preferences on the basis of breed, color or national origin. The university should “to prevent international students from accepting hostile students for American values” and report to federal immigration officers who report to foreign students violating the conduct rules.
Last week, a group of Harvard professors filed a lawsuit to block the review of about $ 9 billion in the Federal Contracts of Trump administration and the grants given to the school.
The Trump administration is allegedly considering forcing fellow IV League School Columbia in a consent decree that would legally obligate the school to follow the federal guidelines of how it combates antisemitism. Some Columbia professors, such as Harvard, have sued the federal government in response. The government has suspended Colombia $ 400 million in federal funds and grants.
Harvard Chairman Garber said the federal government demands that it “audit” the attitude of its students, faculties and employees, which is generally against the Trump administration to exclude leftist thinkers, clearly violated the first amendment rights of the university.
“The university will not surrender its freedom or abandon its constitutional rights,” Garber wrote.
He said that when taking steps to address antisementism on Harvard Campus, “These ends will not be determined to control the claims of power, precious with the law, to control teaching and learning in Harvard and to determine how we work”.
Garber said: “With the freedom of idea and inquiry, honor of the government and prolonged commitment to protect it, universities have been able to contribute significantly for a free society and contribute to more rich lives for people everywhere.”
Harvard agreed to provide additional protection for Jewish students in January, alleging Ivagous League School to resolve two cases.
To reduce any funding crunch created by any cutoff in federal funding, is working to borrow $ 750 million from Harvard Wall Street.
