University fights back against threats to cut about $9bn in funding for school after it refused to comply with demands
Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging it is trying to “gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard”.
The university is fighting back against the administration’s threat to review about $9bn in federal funding after Harvard officials refused to comply with a list of demands that included appointing an outside overseer to ensure that the viewpoints being taught at the university were “diverse”. Harvard is specifically looking to halt a freeze on $2.2bn in grants.
The lawsuit comes as the Trump administration has sought to force changes at multiple Ivy League institutions after months of student activism centered around the war in Gaza. The administration has painted the campus protests as anti-American, and the institutions as liberal and antisemitic, which Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, refuted.
Columbia is like “You can do that?”
« can you help me find my backbone? »
Only in Trump’s america does diversity mean a specifically shitty singular interpretation of a 2000 year old religion which is actually just a thin veil for propagating hatred.
One more lawsuit bro, trust me. One more lawsuit and we stop yeh concentration camps, trust me bro.
As an academic, it’s a tad heartening to see institutions not rolling over.
My college talks a good talk but hasn’t been tested yet.
You want them to do what instead? They are a school, not a military. They use the toolset they have available.
How many universities agreed to the terms of the letter?
It took a long time for Harvard to stop rolling over on increasing evil demands.
