The Trump administration is freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school rejected its demands to make policy changes and “uphold federal civil rights laws.”
April 14 The Trump administration is freezing $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school rejected its demands to make policy changes and “uphold federal civil rights laws.”
“We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement”, Harvard President Alan Garber announced Monday in a statement. “The university will not surrender its independence or its constitutional rights.”
The Department of Education followed Harvard’s rejection with an announcement that the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism would “freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard University.”
“Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges — that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws”, the Education Department said in a statement.
Last week, the administration sent the Ivy League school a letter, warning that its “investment is not an entitlement” and urging the university to “uphold federal civil rights laws.
