Trump administration freezes $2.2B in grants to Harvard
a year ago
- #Harvard University
- #Trump administration
- #campus activism
- The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University due to its refusal to limit campus activism.
- Harvard was demanded to implement government and leadership reforms, change admissions policies, audit diversity views, and stop recognizing certain student clubs.
- Harvard President Alan Garber stated the university would not comply, citing independence and constitutional rights.
- This marks the seventh time the Trump administration has frozen funding to elite colleges, six of which are Ivy League schools.
- The administration argues universities allowed unchecked antisemitism during protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
- Harvard claims the demands exceed government authority under Title VI and violate First Amendment rights.
- Alumni and faculty protested the funding freeze, with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the cuts.