The Ivy League school becomes the first American university to challenge the demands of Trump administrations after the protests of the Pro-Palestine Campus.
Harvard University has rejected the demands of the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who would see the University to give control to what he described as a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerous leftists.
A few hours after Harvard took its position on Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was freezing $ 2.3 billion in federal funds for the Ivy League school.
The freezing of the financing occurs after the Trump administration said last month that it was reviewing $ 9 billion in federal contracts and subsidies to Harvard as part of a repression of what it says is anti-Semitism that exploded in university campuses over 18 pro-Palestian and anti-gaza.
The freezing followed the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, issuing a public letter calling the demands of the Trump administration an attempt to “control the Harvard community” and threaten the “values of the school as a private institution dedicated to the search, production and dissemination of knowledge.”
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“No government, regardless of what party is in power, should dictate what private universities can teach, who can admit and hire, and what areas of study and research can carry out,” Garber’s letter continued.
The Joint Working Group of the United States Department of Education to combat anti -Semitism, in a written statement, said that Garber’s letter “reinforces the mentality of worrying rights that is endemic in the prestigious universities and colleges of our nations, which are not the federal laws of Someststss.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Washington, DC, Patty Culhane, said that although Harvard is not the first institution to be attacked, he has bone “the first to sound challenging”, and indicates equally “that they could in court.”
“So, a great change of what we have seen from other universities, but if someone could, it’s Harvard,” said Culhane.
The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds for numerous universities, pressing institutions to make policy changes and cite what it says is a failure to combat anti -Semitism on campus.
The University of Columbia was stripped of $ 400 million in subsidies and contracts on March 7, so the Trump administration claimed that it was allowing “implacable violence, intimidation and anti -Semitic harassment” on its campus.
Deportation procedures have begun against several foreign students detained who detached part in pro-palestinian manifestations, while visas for sinks or other students have been canceled.