Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute | Harvard University

Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration reached an agreement with Harvard and the school would pay $ 500 million to solve the dispute between the federal government and the university.

Trump told reporters at an event at the Oval Office, referring to the educational secretary Linda McMahon, “Linda finishes the last details,” he said. “And they will pay about $ 500 million and operate trade schools. They will teach people how to do many other things, engines, many things.”

It was unclear whether Harvard was ready to announce an agreement, or what terms of the US President mentioned beyond money. He said that any agreement has not yet been verified on paper and that he did not immediately comment on Harvard’s words.

Trump’s Massachusetts, Cambridge’deki university in the treatment of Jewish and Israeli students violated the Federal Civil Rights Law, and Trump’ın federal financing and trying to prohibit the school’s international students after the news came after months.

Trump previously, after the reckoning between the two sides came to court, the management of the fundal funds of billions of dollars did not ask for nothing less than $ 500 million ”.

At the beginning of this month, a federal judge decided that the administration was illegally terminated in the grants given to Harvard in a grants of approximately $ 2.2 billion and no longer cut the research fund.

The decision of the US regional judge in Boston, Allison Burroughs, pointed to a great legal victory for Harvard, as it was more challenged than others in the most pre -conflict with the country’s oldest and richest university in the country.

The Trump administration threatened schools, universities and colleges with withholding of federal funds, including pro -Palestinian protests against the Israeli war in Gaza, at the same time climate initiatives, transsexual policies and diversity, equality and involvement practices.

However, Trump pushed Harvard to accept a significant larger settlement than Columbia of $ 200 million, and in July he agreed to pay to solve federal investigations. University of Brown, Providence, Also made A compromise agreement pays $ 50 million to restore the backward federal research financing and bring back investigations into the claim of discrimination.

Rights defenders expressed their concerns about free speech, privacy and academic freedom about the Trump administration’s investigations into universities. Trump said that universities such as Harvard allowed anti -Semitism during pro -Palestinian protests.

Protesters say that the government’s attack on Gaza, including some Jewish groups, and the occupation of Palestinian regions with anti -Semiticism, and that Palestinian rights equalized its advocacy with the support of extremism. The government did not explain Islamophobia probes.

Harvard Taskfores said that in late April, the Jewish and Muslim students of the school faced bigotry and abuse during Israel’s war in Gaza.

Harvard’s president Alan Garber said that since Trump returned to office in January, various federal actions have robbed approximately 1 billion dollars of school a year and forced him to leave the staff and to freeze.

Historically, civil rights investigations carried out by the Education Department have resulted in voluntary adaptation agreements and rarely financial punishment, so Trump’s fund deductions are separated from the previous practices. Even in cases where the penalties were applied, the amounts were much smaller.

Reuters contributed to reporting