Harvard University is 140 years old from the United States, and it has a greater gift than the gross domestic product of nearly 100 countries, and has taught eight American presidents. So, if the institution will stand before the Trump administration war on the academic circles, Harvard will be at the top of the list.
Harvard did this strongly on Monday in the manner of injecting energy in other universities throughout the country, afraid of the president’s anger, and rejected the Trump administration’s demands for employment, acceptance and curricula. Some commentators went to the point that Harvard’s decision will enable law firms, courts, media and other White House goals to decline as well.
C. Michael Lotig, a prominent former Federal Appeal Judge that he fell asleep by many conservatives: “This is very important, very important.” “This should be the turning point in the irritation of the president against American institutions.”
Michael S. welcomed. Ruth, President of Weslian University and rare white critic among university directors, Harvard’s decision. “What happens when the institutions exceed it is that it changes the path when it meets the resistance,” he said. “It seems as if the fatwa is stopped in its paths.”
Within hours of Harvard’s decision, federal officials said they would do Freezing $ 2.2 billion In granting multiple years to university, along with a $ 60 million contract.
This is a small part of 9 billion dollars of federal financing that Harvard University is receiving, where 7 billion dollars went to the university’s 11 hospital in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Massachusetts General, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana Farper Cancer Institute. The remaining billions go to research grants directly to Harvard University, including exploration of space, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and tuberculosis.
It is not immediately clear programs that will affect the freezing of financing.
Harvard University, the richest university in the country and the oldest university, is the most prominent object in the management campaign to purify the “wake” ideology “wake up” from the campus of the American universities. Administration demands include sharing employment data with the government and bringing an external party to ensure that each academic department is a “diverse point of view”.
The University of Colombia, which faced a loss of $ 400 million in federal financing last month, agreed to major concessions demanded by the government, including stabilizing new supervision on the Middle Eastern Studies Department, South Asia and African.
In Monday, the President of Harvard University, Alan M. refused. Park, stand. “Harvard or any other private university cannot allow it to be seized by the federal government,” he wrote.
The Battle of Management with Harvard, which amounted to $ 53.2 billion in 2024, is the battle that President Trump and Stephen Miller, the powerful assistant at the White House. In the administration’s efforts to break what you see as a liberal referee on higher education, Harvard University is a big game. The prominent battle of the court would give the White House a platform to continue to say that the left has become synonymous with anti -Semitism, elite and suppressing freedom of expression.
Stephen Benker, a prominent psychologist at Harvard University and is also head of Academic Freedom Council at Harvard UniversityOn Monday, he said that “Orwellian” and self -standardization was to have the diversity of government power point at the university. He said he would also lead to absurdity.
“Will this government force the Ministry of Economy to employ Marxists or the Ministry of Psychology to employ Jungians, or, or for this issue, so that homosexuality or indigenous American therapists are employed?” He said.
Harvard University did not escape the problems that the campus has throughout the country after the Hamas -led attacks on October 7, 2023. In his letter, Dr. Garbar said that the university took steps to address anti -Semitism, support various views and protect freedom of expression.
These same points were presented in a letter to the administration from lawyers representing Harvard and William A. Burke and Robert K. Hor.
Mr. Burke is also a Trump’s external ethical advisor and represents the legal office, Weiss, Rivation, and Erton & Garrison LLP in the recently reached deal with the Trump administration.
Mr. Hor, who was working in the Ministry of Justice in Mr. Trump’s first state, was the special advisor who investigated the dealings of President Joseph R. Biden Junior with classified documents and described him as “an elderly man with a bad memory”, which led to Mr. Biden.
Both lawyers understand the legal work of the current administration, and it is an experience in benefiting from Harvard.
“Harvard is still open to the dialogue about what the university has done, and plans to do it, to improve the experience of each member of its community,” said Mr. Burke and Mr. Hor. Public Services Department. “But Harvard University is not ready to agree to the demands that go beyond the legal authority for this or any administration.”
Actor Elise Stefanick, the Republican in New York, who held sessions last year, was investigating anti -Semitism in universities, including at Harvard University, was wilted as social media.
“Harvard University has truly found her place as an example of moral and academic rot in higher education,” wrote Stefanick, a Harvard graduate. “It is time to completely cut off American taxpayer financing for this institution, which failed to raise the level of its founding slogan. Defund Harvard.”
What is the other measure that the Trump administration can take against Harvard University to resist it, although possible measures can include an investigation into its non -profit position and the abolition of international students’ visas.
The head of the American Education Council, Ted Mitchell, said Harvard’s work is necessary.
He said: “If Harvard does not take this position, it will be almost impossible for other institutions to do so.”
