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The Trump administration said that it would prevent Harvard from the admissibility to new research grants from the federal government, degenerating its attack on Elite University.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, wrote to the President of the University on Monday informing him of the decision and dynamics of the university for having “mocked the higher education system of this country”.
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer ask for subsidies from the federal government, because none will be provided,” McMahon wrote in Alan Garber.
“”Harvard will cease to be an institution funded by the State and may rather operate as an institution funded by the private people, based on its colossal endowment and by collecting funds from its large base of former wealthy students. »»
A senior official of the Ministry of Education said that the block was specifically linked to subsidies for funding for research.
Harvard said the latest requests “would impose unprecedented and inappropriate control … (with) frightening implications for higher education”.
The University said: “Harvard will continue to comply with the law, promote and encourage respect for the diversity of views and fight anti-Semitism in our community. Harvard will also continue to defend itself against the over-appearance of the illegal government aimed at stifling research and innovation that make Americans safer and safer.”
The decision is the last side of the American president Donald Trump Against Harvard and other elite universities that he has accused of promoting progressive policy and promoting a culture of “deadlines” on the campus.
Last week, Trump said he Harvard scrap tax exemption. He had previously announced his intention to exceed more than $ 2.2 billion in university federal funding, which prompted him to launch legal action against his administration.
The announcement on Monday comes after that the billionaire of the designing fund Bill Ackman – who directed a successful campaign to overthrow the former president of Harvard, Claudine Gay – renewed his own attack on the university and suggested that he should not have continued the government.
“What Harvard should have done is to say: President Trump – you make good points. Taxpayers’ money coming to Harvard is a privilege, not a right,” said Ackman.
In his letter, McMahon accused the University of not having fought against anti -Semitism on the campus, to tolerate discrimination, to abandon academic rigor and to lack a diversity of points of view.
Some experts wondered if the government had unilaterally canceled the funding of grants.
“To categorically say that an entity will not be eligible for subsidies, before there was a judgment of the failure of the entity to meet the requirements, could be problematic,” said Jonathan Adler, professor of law at the Western Reserve University.
However, he added: “I think this is the message he sends to other universities.”
The financing block would last until the resolution of federal government surveys on the university, according to the senior department of the department. They added that this could be accelerated if the university should “open a wider negotiation” with the administration.
