Posted on 04/14/2025 4:30:02 PM PDT by KingofZion
Harvard University said on Monday that it had rejected policy changes requested by the Trump administration, becoming the first university to directly refuse to comply with its demands and setting up a showdown between the federal government and the nation’s wealthiest university.
Other universities have pushed back against the administration’s interference in higher education. But Harvard’s response, which called the Trump administration’s demands illegal, marked a major shift in tone for the nation’s most influential school, which has been criticized in recent weeks for capitulating to Trump administration pressure.
A letter the Trump administration sent to Harvard on Friday demanded that the university reduce the power of students and faculty members over the university’s affairs; report foreign students who commit conduct violations immediately to federal authorities; and bring in an outside party to ensure that each academic department is “viewpoint diverse,” among other steps. The administration did not define what it meant by viewpoint diversity, but it has generally referred to seeking a range of political views, including conservative perspectives.
No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university on Monday.
Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has aggressively targeted universities, saying it is investigating dozens of schools as it moves to eradicate diversity efforts and what it says is rampant antisemitism on campus. Officials have suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds for research at universities across the country.
The administration has taken a particular interest in a short list of the nation’s most prominent schools.
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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.
Racist clowns...
No compliance, no money.
Wonder how Harvard will pay its lawyers.
If Harvard didn’t take any government money they would have a point, but they have already politically prostituted themselves.
Excellent! Let the games begin.
The Feds shouldn't be funding any universities except for the military academies.
The state U is funded by their state government.
They all need to lose their tax free status.
GOOD!! Hope we SAVED the $9 BILLION!
I’m not so surprised at all.
Hopefully they have a bad stock year.
Dip into your endowment then.
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.
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
OK Hahvad, your terms are acceptable. The federal money flow stops now.
Harvard shouldn’t get any public money given its endowment size!
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.
Arrest its president.
It has over 50 Billion
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.
Thank you for that post! Elucidated the consequences better than I’ve seen anywhere else.
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