The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said on Monday.
The education department taskforce on combating antisemitism said in a statement it was freezing $2.2bn in grants and $60m in multi-year contract value to Harvard.
The administration also demanded that Harvard cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
“Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard.”.
The demands from the Trump administration prompted a group of alumni to write to university leaders calling for it to “legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance”.
“These sweeping yet indeterminate demands are not remedies targeting the causes of any determination of noncompliance with federal law.
Instead, they overtly seek to impose on Harvard University political views and policy preferences advanced by the Trump administration and commit the university to punishing disfavored speech,” plaintiffs wrote. »
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