Harvard announced Monday it would not agree to the Trump administration’s demands to address anti-Semitism on campus.
Ministry of Education (ED) is letter By requesting Ivy League schools on April 11th, I agree to many reforms, including coordinating and implementing the disciplinary process, improving screening of international students for “hostile” views, and auditing “programs with a terrible record of anti-Semitism.” Harvard quoted academic freedom concerns and rights to freedom of speech in its presentation. rejection Ed’s request. (Related: “Destruction Calculation Plan”: 12 Anti-Israel Student Protesters indicted on a felony)
“We have notified the administration through our legal advisor that we will not accept the proposed agreement,” Harvard President Alan Gerber wrote in the announcement. “The university will not waive independence or waive its constitutional rights.”
Ed, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the General Services Agency (GSA) began reviewing more than $8.7 billion in grants to Harvard in late March after a September investigation by the House Committee on Education, and the workforce determined that Harvard had “failed” to discipline students engaged in anti-Semitic campus protests. Harvard demonstrator Confused class, occupation Campus building and several days of setup Camp.
At the time of the committee’s investigation, none of the 68 students introduced due to discipline measures regarding their role in the camps for the spring semester were suspended.
Among them letter For Ed, Harvard said on campus that he was “attacking anti-Semitism and other forms of bias and “implementing substantial policy and program measures” to address such incidents.
President Donald Trump’s candidate for Education Secretary, Linda McMahon testified at a confirmation hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Darksen Senate office building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Following the Trump administration’s announcement of Harvard’s grant review, the university ran ahead of Wall Street, issuering $750 million in bonds. Harvard has more than $53 billion in donations.
“Harvard has served for generations as an American dream symbol, a pinnacle of students from all over the world working hard and enrolling in a renowned institution,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in March when he announced the school’s grant review. “Harvard University puts its reputation in serious danger, not protecting students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination – all free-study and fostering divisive ideology.
Ed is revoking funds from several other Ivy League universities as they violate millions of civil rights laws and federal directives from Columbia, Cornell and Princeton.
The Trump administration is committed to eradicating anti-Semitism on university campuses after violent protests are allowed to continue unchecked for more than a year. In February, the government was assembled. A joint task force to combat anti-SemitismED, Department of Justice (DOJ) and HHS. The task force said “the number one priority is to eradicate anti-Semitic harassment on schools and university campuses,” and then began a review of schools’ civil rights enforcement compliance.
The following month, Ed sent a letter to 60 universities warning of “potential enforcement actions” if Jewish students did not step up to protect them from harassment and discrimination.
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