A person directs the Dunster house at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 17, 2025.
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The Trump administration on Monday night said it was freezing $ 2.2 billion in subsidies to Harvard University about Conerns about anti -Semitism on campus and other issues.
The freezing was announced hours after Harvard flatly rejected the demands by the Trump administration to eliminate their DEI programs and detect international students for ideological concerns, including anti -Semitism, putting at risk almost $ 9 billion in federal funds for the university.
“No government, regardless of what party is in power, should dictate that private universities can teach, who can admit and hire, and what areas of study and research they do,” the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, writes the community.
“Although some of the demands described by the Government aim to combat anti -Semitism, the majority representative directs government regulation of intellectual conditions” in Harvard, “said Garber.
The General Services Administration and the United States Department of Education responded with a statement that details the freezing of $ 2.2 billion in subsidies of several years and $ 60 million in contractual value of several years to Harvard.
“Harvard’s statement today reinforces the worrying mentality of rights that is endemic in the most prestigious universities and colleges of our nations, that federal investment does not have the responsibility of defending civil rights laws,” federal acquittals said.
“The interruption of learning that has affected campus in recent years is unacceptable. The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable,” agencies said. “It’s time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to significant change if they want the continuous support of receptor taxpayers.”
CNBC has requested Harvard comments in freezing.
Harvard is potentially better positioned to combat the financial pressure of the Trump administration to meet the demands for changes in its Cambridge campus, Massachusetts.
The University has an endowment of $ 53 billion, more than $ 10 billion more than the second largest endowment, at Yale University.
The Trump administration, in a letter on Friday to Harvard, demanded that the university eliminate its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and asked to evaluate international students for their supposed support for terrorism, anti -Semitism and hostility towards “US values and institutions registered in the Constitution and the declaration of independence of the United States.”
On Monday, Harvard said on Tweet: “The University will not deliver its independence or resign from its constitutional rights.”
“Neinder Harvard or any other private university can allow the federal government to be tasks,” said the tweet.
Garber also said that the Federal Government, for almost a century, has subsidies and contracts of Provide to Harvard, which has led to “innovative innovations in a wide range of medical, engineering and scientific fields.”
Federal government financing is the main source of Harvard resources support.
Graber warned that without him, “it runs the risk of not only the health and well -being of millions of people, but also the economic security and vitality of our nation.”
Harvard’s lawyers in a separate letter on Monday said the university has tasks to combat anti -Semitism.
“Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of each member of their community,” they wrote. “But Harvard is not prepared to accept the demands that Goyond the legal authority of this or any administration.”
One of the lawyers representing Harvard is Robert Hur, the special advisor of the Department of Justice who investigated the management of former President Joe Biden of classified documents.
He was nominated by Trump in 2017 to serve as Maryland’s US prosecutor.
The other university lawyer is William Burck, an external ethics advisor to the Trump organization and global co -president of the law firm Quinn Emanuel LLP.
The White House suggested that it would now reduce the funds for Harvard due to the university’s refusal to meet the demands.
“[Trump] He is working to make higher education great again without control anti -Semitism and ensure that federal dollars of taxpayers do not finance Harvard’s support for dangerous racial discrimination or racially motivated violence, “White House spokesman.
“Harvard or any institution that wishes to violate title VI, by law, is not eligible for federal funds,” said Fields.
The White House has concentrated in schools and universities as part of its repression against Dei programs throughout the country since President Donald Trump recovered the position in January.
The Trump administration earlier this year reduced $ 400 million in funds for Columbia University about its management of pro-palestinian protests that exploded on the campus.
Columbia University accepted many of the White House demands.
The White House said last week that it stopped more than $ 1 billion in federal funds for the University of Cornell and approximately $ 790 million for Northwestern University.