Harvard University revealed that it will not comply with the Trump administration’s demand list so that the University makes changes in its policies regarding hiring, government, students’ admissions and anti -Semitism.
In a letter issued on Monday, the University’s lawyers criticized an earlier letter from the Trump administration for ignoring Harvard efforts “to make” changes in the policies of use of their campus “, to address and combat the security security campus of the hatred campus and security of the campus.
The University added that the demands of the administration “invade the university freedoms recognized by the Supreme Court.
“It is unfortunate, then, that his letter ignores Harvard’s efforts and, on the other hand, present demands that, in the contravention of the first amendment, he invades the freedom of the university, the freedoms recognized for a long time by the Supreme Court,” says the letter. “The terms of the government also avoid Harvard’s legal rights by requiring non -backed and disruptive resources for alleged damage that the Government has not demonstrated through mandatory processes established by Congresss and required by law.”
“No less objectable is the condition, for the first time explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accesss these terms or risks the loss of billions of dollars in federal critical financing for vital research and innovation has saved and improved the scientific, medical and medical communities of the League of the League, the standards of standards for the world,” the letter continued. ” “These demands extend not only to Harvard, but also to medical and research hospitals separately and operated independently that participate in works that save lives on behalf of their patients. The university will not be delivered in relation to the nithum nitrum of harvest harvest to itself by the tasks of the tasks for the tasks for the tasks by the tasks.
In a letter of April 11 addressed to the president of Harvard University, Alan Garber and Penny Pritzker, main member of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard was accused of not “complying with the conditions of intellectual and civil rights that justify federal investment.”
The United States has invested in Harvard University operations because the value for the country of academic discovery and academic excellence, “said the previous letter.” But an investment is not a right. It depends on Harvard defending federal civil rights laws, and only makes sense if Harvard Foster is the type of environment that produces intellectual creativity and academic rigor, both or that are antithetical to ideological capture. “
In the letter of Josh Gruenbaum, the federal action commissioner; Sean Keveney, the interim general advisor of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States, and Thomas Wheeler, the interim general advisor of the United States Department of Education, some of the demands required that Harvard “make a significant government reform” in August 2025.
Other demands required that Harvard “adopt and implement contracting policies based on merit, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin that its hiring, promotion, compensation, related practices between the faculty.
“In August 2025, the university must reform its recruitment, detection and admission of international students to avoid admitting hostile students to US values and institutions registered in the Constitution of the United States and the declaration of independence, including reading students’ demand.
Garber criticized the list of demands of the Trump administration, claiming that, although “some of the demands described by the Government aim to combat anti -Semitism, most represented the direct government regulation of” intellectual conditions. “
The Trump administration has previously stated that it would examine approximately $ 256 million in contracts between Harvard University, along with $ 8.7 billion in “years subsidy commitments” with the university.
Breitbart News reported that in February, President Donald Trump elected the civil rights lawyer, Leo Terrell, to lead a work group anti -Semitism of several agencies called the working group to combat anti -Semitism. The “first priority” of the working group was “to eliminate anti -Semitic harassment in schools and university campuses.”
