Freezes billions to Harvard – refuses to agree to demands
Anna Sjögren
Updated 08.00 | Published 07.59
Photo: Ben Curtis / AP
Cut down diversity and inclusion programs and reduce the influence of employees who engage in activism.
Otherwise, the Trump administration will freeze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard.
Elite universities have refused to comply with new policy requirements imposed on them.
Quick version
The university received the letter last week. It outlined the new guidelines from the Trump administration.
The
letter demands that Harvard scrap its diversity, equality and inclusion
program and ban face coverings at demonstrations on its campus.
They
will also change hiring and admissions processes and reduce the
influence of employees and faculty who are “more engaged in activism
than science.”
But Harvard will not agree to the changes,
according to Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s president, who informed the
administration through the university’s legal counsel.
In a message to Harvard employees and students, he writes that it will not give up its independence and constitutional rights.
“No
government – regardless of the party in power – should dictate what
private universities can teach, who they should admit and hire, and what
areas of knowledge and research they can undertake,” writes the Harvard Gazette.
Strikes against students
He believes that the stopped grants will hit both students and American society.
"The
government's withdrawal from this partnership now risks not only the
health and well-being of millions of individuals, but also the economic
security and viability of our nation," Harvard writes in a statement.
According
to CNN, the demands are part of the White House's efforts to combat
anti-Semitism on university campuses after several incidents linked to
the war between Hamas and Israel.
"President Trump is working to
'make higher education great again' by ending anti-Semitism and ensuring
that taxpayer dollars are not used to support Harvard's support for
dangerous racial discrimination and racially motivated violence," a
White House spokesperson said in a statement, CNN writes.
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