Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands

The New York Times ^ | april 14, 2025 | Vimal Patel

[KingofZion]

I'm not sure why this is headlined as a "showdown". Harvard has a massive endowment, they can simply follow the lead of Hillsdale college and decline federal funds. What they cannot do is take millions and decide not to follow the law.

Of course, this will not resolve Harvard's problems as they are still obligated to adhere to Title VI and Title IX (non discrimination which means no trans athletes and no jew haters) and to SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action.

[kiryandil]

Racist clowns...

[Tzimisce]

No compliance, no money.

Wonder how Harvard will pay its lawyers.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

If Harvard didn’t take any government money they would have a point, but they have already politically prostituted themselves.

[HYPOCRACY]

Excellent! Let the games begin.

[MinorityRepublican]

Harvard has a massive endowment, they can simply follow the lead of Hillsdale college and decline federal funds. What they cannot do is take millions and decide not to follow the law.

The Feds shouldn't be funding any universities except for the military academies.

The state U is funded by their state government.

[HYPOCRACY]

They all need to lose their tax free status.

[Ann Archy]

GOOD!! Hope we SAVED the $9 BILLION!

[No name given]

I’m not so surprised at all.

[Jonty30]

Hopefully they have a bad stock year.

[cotton1706]

Dip into your endowment then.

[Harpotoo]

Private my Arse!!!
n fiscal year 2024, the University received $686 million from federal agencies, accounting for two-thirds of its total sponsored research expenditures and 11 percent of the University’s operating revenue.

“We could not carry out our mission the way we do now without substantial federal research support, nor could we provide the benefits to the nation that we do now without that support,” Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said in a December interview with The Crimson.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Well then they get NOTHING..heck these colleges get BILLIONS in endowments, why the hell are we giving them OUR money anyway..these Hamas loving colleges can go f themselves

[RKV]

OK Hahvad, your terms are acceptable. The federal money flow stops now.

[Reily]

Harvard shouldn’t get any public money given its endowment size!

[SamuraiScot]

No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire. . .

Well, I guess the shoe is on the other foot, little Harvard, eh? Where was your outrage against the FedGov intruding in hiring decisions by race and so on when it was private businesses who were getting invaded by the imperial bureaucracy and told whom to hire and fire?

Oh, that's right, it was your Marxist professors and favorite writers who came up with Affirmative Discrimination, er, Action. And you loved it.

Get used to getting smacked with the Right hand instead of the Left, you corrupt mediocrities.

[Mashood]

Arrest its president.

[Gaffer]

It has over 50 Billion

[EnderWiggin1970]

Education is a personal agenda, not something to force taxpayers to pay for others' goals. For example in the Northwest Ordinance land was to be set aside for schools in each township - but that was 50+ years before the first public schools anywhere in the nation. The legislation reflected the widespread valuing of education by the people and thus set aside land to ensure children could be educated. But that education was 100% by private means in that era and for many years afterwards.

So whether well run or bloated, whether moderate politically or out-in-left-field, neither Harvard nor any other school has any business getting taxpayer funding. It is a plain violation of the 9th and 10th amendments and if we are ever going to get back to a constitutional republic this needs to be enforced.

[Wpin]

Thank you for that post! Elucidated the consequences better than I’ve seen anywhere else.