Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues | Harvard University
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration does not want Harvard less than $ 500 million ”.
“Don’t negotiate with them, they were very bad, Tr Trump said at a cabinet meeting to Linda McMahon.
Trump’s Comments to come Among the reports The rule and the government’s allegations that the government would not be able to break the anti -Semitism due to pro -Palestinian protests of Harvard’s wars that could end for months.
In April, Harvard has been the first and university so far to prosecute Trump on financing deductions. The following month filed a lawsuit for the government’s efforts to prevent the school from recording international students.
The university argued that the administration illegally reduced the research fund of the university to reject a series of demands in the April 11 letter from a federal anti -Semitism duty force. These demands regarding campus protests, academic policies and acceptance practices.
A US regional judge heard arguments from both Harvard and the Ministry of Justice last month.
The Ministry of Justice said that the federal government has the authority to cancel grants when violating the Presidential directives of the institutions and claimed that Trump has been fighting anti -Semitism.
New York Times And Associated publication have both Harvard and the White House made significant progress towards an agreement. According to the proposed agreement, according to Times, Harvard would pay $ 500 million for billions of restorations in frozen federal research funds. However, it is reported that key terms are still not solved and negotiations continue.
Harvard President Alan Garber objected to the Times report and claimed that the article was wrong to the faculty and that the information was leaked to the press by the White House officials.
According to Harvard CrimsonThe university’s student newspaper Garber said that the university is determined to solve the issue through courts and that academic freedom could not be negotest in any agreement.
In July, Harvard reportedly agreed to comply with federal demands to transfer employment records for thousands of personnel.
Since he took office in January, Trump and his administration have made unprecedented efforts to reshape higher education, and selected universities have targeted pro -Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, DEI programs, and more.
Some other universities, including Columbia, Brown and University of Pennsylvania, have reached settlement agreements to restore research funds.
Columbia University agreed to pay more than 220 million dollars and a series of reforms to settle allegations That he did not do enough to combat anti -Semitism. However, some educational defenders rejected this agreement as a blow to academic freedom.
