Harvard University refuses to bow to a list of demands presented by the President’s administration Donald Trump.
In a message Monday jointHarvard University President Alan Garper rejected a list of the institutional changes requested by the Trump team. Garper wrote his university, “Its independence will not surrender or give up its constitutional rights” in the face of threats for its federal financing.
A message from Ministry of Education Send last week Threatened federal scholarships To the oldest university in the country. I called at Nix University Diversity, fairness and inclusion Programs and combating alleged subordination to the campus. The letter also asked the college to establish employment and admission reforms that would pass a crowd with the Trump official, a clear Trojan horse aimed at entering more than one oath in the institution.
The message targeted specific programs at the university for special scrutiny, under the guise of anti -Semitism. These include the studies of the Middle East at the university and the lower language and culture programs, as well as the school public health.
“No government – regardless of the party in power – should not dictate to private universities to study, who can accept and employ them, and any areas of study and investigation that they can follow,” Garber replied. “The recipe for the administration exceeds the authority of the federal government. It violates the rights of Harvard’s first amendment and exceeds the legal limits of the government authority under Chapter Six.”
Harvard’s challenging response came less than a month later Columbia University The demands of the Trump administration for a student student. The university helped, as it helped the detained activist Mahmoud Khalil in organizing pro -events protests after the Ministry of Education threatened to withdraw 400 million dollars from federal funds.
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