Posted on 04/04/2025 10:01:30 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The Trump Administration has officially put Harvard University on notice that it must change its policies on everything from wearing masks to admissions, or it will lose federal financial support.
Unlike the administration action cutting off Columbia University from about $400 million without options for adjusting policies, the government letter to Harvard this week gives Harvard the choice to adhere to government demands without an immediate cutoff, reported The Hill.
The Trump administration began the process of reviewing colleges and universities and taxpayer-provided financial support less than two weeks after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to serve a second term. Trump's Executive Order on Jan. 29 zeroed in on incidents of campus protests and specifically mentioned "Measures to Combat Campus Anti-Semitism."
On March 3, the administration posted a public notice that it had opened a review of Columbia University. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, “Americans have watched in horror for more than a year now as Jewish students have been assaulted and harassed on elite university campuses."
Just four days later, the Education Department announced that about $400 million in funding for Columbia was being blocked.
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Why in the world would a school that charges so much tuition as Harvard need government money?
“As of the end of fiscal year 2024, Harvard University’s endowment stands at approximately $53.2 billion. The largest academic endowment in the world.”
“the Harvard Management Company boasted a 9.6 percent return on its investments in fiscal year 2024 “
Harvard Crimson.
Tell them to pick up roadside returnable cans and bottles and hold a bake sale using folding tables at a charity rock concert parking lot.
If you want to stick it to these colleges just gut the student visa program
Some threat. That’s like threatening Elon Musk with a parking ticket.
University scientific researchers apply for NIH and NSF grants!
This research built the biotech industry, and developed very numerous medical treatments and cures. This helped increase life expectancy!
Meanwhile, university endowment money has all sorts of strings attached—for example, used for scholarships or athletic teams. It is not usually used for research.
There’s no such thing as government money. It’s taxpayers’ money. And how much is tuition these days?Something like $50,000? If they can’t get by on that, maybe they shouldn’t be in business.
Harvard has an ENDOWMENT valued at $52,000,000,000.00. That is enough money to give 500,000(half a million) students over $100,000.00 each.
Enough to fund 10,000 studies/causes/scholarships of $5,200,000.00 each.
WHY is Harvard getting a single penny of tax dollars!????
Harvard don’t need tax dollars. Stop that nonsense now.
Harvard could have cut the strings and used endowment money for the research, earning a stellar reputation and credit for those discoveries, while removing the Elite A$$holes classification for the entire University and those associated with it, and showing the Nation how to properly deal with Elite A$$holes.
Instead, they used American Taxpayer money to create medications that insider Pharmaceutical Corporations priced out of reach of Ordinary American Taxpayers.
Harvard could not have used endowment money for research.
And many grant-fueled discoveries contributed to our increased life expectancy.
I will defend Harvard for these things. However, I do not like Harvard, MIT, etc. going all in for DEI, and admitting more Third World students. It is the latter who push the Palestinian narrative that has gotten universities in trouble.
“And many grant-fueled discoveries contributed to our increased life expectancy.”
I thought americans life expectancy was falling.
Ditto that.
Sure they could, simply establish an publish a policy that part of endowments would be used for research, and let the donors take it or leave it.
That policy would enforce that Harvard simply cannot be bribed no matter how Elite the A$$hole Alumni is.
Harvard elects rich “A$$hole Alumni” to its governing boards!
Ordinary alumni (like me) barely get to even vote for her governing boards!
Not from 1965!
Meanwhile, university endowment money has all sorts of strings attached—for example, used for scholarships or athletic teams. It is not usually used for research.
Bullcrap. Harvard has a 53 billion dollar endowment. It isn’t going into sports programs, and students still pay tuition.
That “not used for research” is a mere Harvard policy. It can be changed any time they please.
We should not be giving money to a college with more money sitting in the bank than the GDP of Jordan or Bahrain.
The feds shouldn’t give them any money. They should tax the crap out of them instead. These are the quintessential limousine liberals.
Then Screw Harvard until they start electing good people like you to the governing boards.
But I’m not rich nor financially knowledgeable! (Once upon a time, I did take courses in Accounting and Finance.)
But I would not run roughshod over Harvard’s endowment or the NIH an NSF grant system. I would try to move Harvard Admissions back to the way it was when I was at Harvard, and move to eliminate DEI.
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