Harvard University is the youngest in a growing list of university institutions that had targeted its federal financing from the government to comply with the political agenda of the Trump government.
The series of threats – and subsequent breaks in financing – for some of the best US universities have become an unprecedented instrument for administration in order to influence campus from college. Six of the seven affected universities are Ivy League schools.
President Donald Trump swore to pursue these federal cuts last year on the campaign path, and said that he would concentrate in schools to drive “” critical racial theory, transgender madness and other inappropriate racist, sexual or political content “. Public school systems are also goals for cuts.
A look at the universities has so far been put under pressure through the administration’s funding cuts.
Harvard University
The administration announced that their anti -Semitism -Sksk Force would carry out a “comprehensive review” of Massachusett’s university on March 31. The government should be checked almost 9 billion US dollars in federal grants and contracts.
Harvard is one of the universities across the country where propalestinian protests broke out on campus last year. Since then, republican civil servants have greatly examined these universities, and several President of the Ivy League testified before the congress to discuss anti -Semitism allegations.
In a letter on April 3, the administration issued its list of claims to Harvard. The demands included a ban on face masks, restrictions on campus protests and a review of the prejudices of the academic departments.
About a week later, these demands for management reforms, changes to the admission guidelines and the termination of the recognition of certain student organizations were expanded by the university.
Then, on Monday, Harvard President Alan Gerber refused in a letter that the university “will not submit its independence or not give up its constitutional rights”.
Hours later, the administration announced that it has born grants of more than 2.2 billion US dollars and contracts of $ 60 million to the university.
Cornell University
The White House announced last week that it frozen more than 1 billion US dollars of Cornell’s federal financing. The administration said that the freezing came when she examined alleged violations of civil rights at the university.
New York University belonged to a group of more than 60 universities who received a letter from the educational department on March 10 and asked them to take steps to protect Jewish students or to take “potential enforcement measures”.
The Ministry of Defense granted more than 75 stop work regulations for research, said Cornell in a statement, but the federal government had not confirmed whether the overall financing of $ 1 billion was.
Northwestern University
Like Cornell, Northwestern hired some of his federal financing last week. According to Trump Administration, the amount was around 790 million US dollars.
According to Northwest officials, Illinois University received no official message from the White House in freezing at that time, despite its cooperation with civil rights examinations.
The spokesman for the university, Jon Yates, said that scientific research from Northwestern is “danger” because of freezing – a widespread topic for universities that are exposed to research cuts by the National Institutes of Health.
Brown University
The Trump government was expected that the reaction of the Rhode Island School to the alleged anti -Semitism on the campus was expected due to the reaction of the Rhode Island School to the alleged anti -Semitism on April 3.
According to the official, the total number of funds in the amount of around 510 million US dollars should be expected.
Princeton University
According to a campus message from university president Christopher Eisgruber, dozens of research grants were suspended at Princeton University without a clear reason on April 1. The grants came from federal authorities such as the Energy Ministry, NASA and the Ministry of Defense.
Before the break of the financing, Eisgruber had expressed his opposition to Trump’s threatened cuts at Columbia University in an essay in Atlantic Magazine. He described the government’s step as a “radical threat to scientific excellence and for American leadership in research”.
University of Pennsylvania
In contrast to the other targeted universities, the University of Pennsylvania recorded a transgender athlete due to a transgender athlete who took part in Penn’s swimming program, according to the Trump administration.
After an executive order on February 5, the transgender athlete exhausted from participation in sports and girls sports with the aid of transgender athletes, the educational department initiated an investigation into a day later for athletics programs at the Penn and the San Jose State University. The Penn examination focused on Lia Thomas, who is the first open transgender athlete who won a title of NCAA Division I and completed the university in 2022.
Over a month later, the White House announced the suspension of around 175 million US dollars in federal funding from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health and Human Services. The administration said that the funding on March 19 came after a separate federal discretion check.
At the time, the university said that it was not informed directly about the campaign.
Columbia University
Columbia University was the first major institution to trigger its financing from the Trump administration.
First of all, the federal authorities explained that on March 3rd, they consider contracts of around $ 51 million with columbia in recitals. Trump had also said on social media that schools that allow “illegal protests” to record financial agents.
Last year, Columbia Student’s protesters began a wave of campus demonstrations against the military campaign of Israel in Gaza. The protests led to tense views with the police at New York City University and the arrests of more than 100 demonstrators.
The management of the university was convicted of the spread of the protests with the Republicans and performed the former President Minouche Shafik to step down. Columbia also began to investigate pro-Palestinian student activists such as Mahmoud Khalil, who was later arrested and threatened the deportation.
On March 7, the Trump government canceled around 400 million US dollars to the federal financing of Colombia. Columbia then took some measures, such as: B. some student demonstrators who occupied a campus building during the demonstrations.
On March 21, the university announced that it had agreed to make even more comprehensive political changes that the Trump government had requested.
The changes included the attitude of the Department of Studies in the Middle East under supervision, the hiring of up-to-date security personnel who can make arrests and the ban on facial masks “to hide one’s own identity”. The university also agreed to appoint a high -ranking provost that was commissioned to check the leadership and curriculum of several international study departments.
Armstrong resigned from her post the following week. The decision was made with the dissatisfaction of some faculty members and a lawsuit against the cuts.
According to Harvards despite the demands of the Trump government, the incumbent president of Columbia, Claire Shipman, had a up-to-date message on Monday. She said that with some inquiries from the administration, she rejected the University of “stubborn orchestration”, which “would give up our independence and autonomy as an educational institution”.
According to the Shipman’s Campus Letter, the discussions between the federal government and Columbia were still taking until Monday.
