Washington (AP) -Harvard University and the Trump administration approach an agreement according to which the IVY League University would pay 500 million US dollars in order to regain access to federal funds and to end it, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The frame is still explained with significant gaps to close, but both sides have agreed on the financial number, and an agreement could be concluded in the coming weeks, according to the person who spoke to the Associated Press about the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal considerations.
Harvard rejected a statement.
The agreement would end a monthly struggle that tested the limits of the authority of the government over the American universities. What started as a study of campus anti-Semitism escalated into a comprehensive feud when the Trump government reduced more than $ 2.6 billion in research financing, ended federal contracts and tried to prevent Harvard from the host of international students.
The university answered two lawsuits for illegal retaliation by the administration after Harvard rejected a number of claims that the leaders of the campus regarded as a threat to academic freedom.
Details of the proposed framework were first reported by the New York Times.
A payment of 500 million US dollars would be the largest sum so far, since the administration is urging financial penalties in its settlements with elite universities. Columbia University agreed to pay the government of 200 million US dollars as part of an agreement that restores access to federal financing, while Brown University prepared Rhode Island Workforce Development Organizations.
Details have not been completed where Harvard’s potential payment would be made, the person said.
The Republican President has urged to reform prestigious universities, which he concludes as bastions of liberal ideology.
His administration has reduced the financing of several schools in Ivy League and pushed the claims in accordance with its political campaign. Nobody was targeted as often or as robust as Harvard, the richest US university with a foundation worth 53 billion US dollars.
More than a dozen Democrats in Congress, who visited Harvard, warned of an agreement on August 1st, and warned the university that it can justify “strict congress supervision and examination”. The surrender to political requirements, she said, would create a threatening precedent in the entire university formation.
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