Harvard University It will “do not accept” demands for their feet President Donald Trump Administration Amid the threats of financing discounts, according to a statement issued on Monday.
“The university will not surrender its independence or give up its constitutional rights,” read a post on the account of X at the published university on Monday. “The federal government at Harvard University cannot allow or any other private university.”
In an email sent to Harvard, President Alan M. said. Garper said the university received a “updated and expanded list of demands” from the Trump administration, and warned them against compliance if they wanted to “maintain a financial relationship with the federal government.”
10 DemandAnd, which says the administration aims to address anti -Semitism on the campus, including restricting admission to any international students “hostile to American values and institutions.” Administration also wants a third party in the school audit programs that it says “anti -Semitic harassment or reflects ideological capture.”
The administration also called for the immediate closure of all programs and initiatives of fairness, shares and inclusion, including employment and acceptance, and asked the school to exchange it for “merit -based” policies.
Garper described the demands “unprecedented”, which condemns them as An attempt by the federal government to “control the Harvard community” through the Police of Students’ views, faculty and employees. The university informed the Trump administration through the legal advisor that it would not accept the conditions.
“It is clear that the intention is not to work with us to address the anti -Semitism in a cooperative and constructive way,” said Garbar. “Although some of the demands set by the government aim to combat anti -Semitism, the majority represents the direct government organization of” intellectual conditions “at Harvard University.”
In a letter issued to the administration, university lawyers say that she is “committed to combating anti -Semitism and other forms of intolerance in its community, but the demands of the Trump administration” have long invaded the university freedoms by the Supreme Court. “
“The government’s conditions also refer to Harvard’s legal rights by asking unaccounted and destructive treatments due to the alleged damage that the government has not been proven through the mandatory processes established by Congress under law.”
The Trump administration has made Similar demands for other universities Throughout the country, what you say is the efforts to combat anti -Semitism and other ideological opinions that they do not agree with.
Last month, Columbia University approved a list of nine demands from the administration, including the ban on wearing masks in protests, and the employment of 36 new campus security officers who can arrest students and appoint a new senior deputy to supervise the Middle East and South Asia department.
The administration canceled $ 400 million in the school’s federal funding, accusing him of “inaction in the face of the constant harassment of Jewish students.”
