Harvard won’t comply with Trump admin’s demands amid threats of cutting federal funding

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Harvard won’t comply with Trump admin’s demands amid threats of cutting federal funding
The Trump admin has suspended federal funding from nearly all Ivy League universities amid civil rights investigations into antisemitism
By Greg Wehner Fox News
Published April 14, 2025 5:40pm EDT

Harvard University’s top official told members of the community that the Massachusetts-based school will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands, despite risking the loss of grants and contracts to conduct research on "groundbreaking innovations."

Harvard President Alan M. Garber sent a defiant letter to members of the university community on Monday, saying "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."

"For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields," Garber wrote. "These innovations have made countless people in our country and throughout the world healthier and safer.

"Over the last several weeks, the federal government has threatened its partnerships with several universities, including Harvard, over accusations of antisemitism on our campuses. These partnerships are among the most productive and beneficial in American history," he continued.

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[MeganC]

Harvard hates Jews. So noted! 

[Hoodat]

I was hoping this would be their response.  Another $9 billion in taxpayer money saved.  Thank you, Harvard.

[Lando Lincoln]

I suspect Harvard has a significant war chest squirreled away and their endowments are substantial. Still, losing billions has gotta hurt.

[mountaineer]

Harvard is such a pathetic joke, a mediocrity imagining itself to be the top educational institution in the land.

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1912034829417545971

[Bigun]

Harvard University is ranked 3rd best in the U.S. 

By whom? Based on what exactly?

[mountaineer]

Our first gay Muslim president weighs in (is he permitted to reference "ham"?):

Barack Obama
@BarackObama
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.
11:12 PM · Apr 14, 2025

[jmyrlefuller]

You don't go to Harvard for the education, you go for the connections and the name on the diploma. Harvard is a status symbol and nothing more—a way to separate the Star Bellies from the Plain Bellies, to borrow an image from Dr. Seuss.

[Smokin Joe]

You don't go to Harvard for the education, you go for the connections and the name on the diploma. Harvard is a status symbol and nothing more—a way to separate the Star Bellies from the Plain Bellies, to borrow an image from Dr. Seuss.

The ultimate 'virtue signal'...

[Canuck Conservative]

Still, losing billions has gotta hurt

And this is annual federal funding, so this loss for Harvard could be times 4 years, longer if Trump (or his successor) wins in 2028.

Let's see how much they're really prepared to lose ...

[MeganC]

Now end the Federal student loans! 

[mountaineer]

Now end the Federal student loans!

Amen.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Now end the Federal student loans! 

I envision Trump just might use this as an opportunity to discharge the federally-controlled student loan program begun by Obama and make it funded instead by the universities.

He might say something like this to the colleges " If you really believe that you create value for the students you teach, then fund them yourselves and get your money back when they find that job you prepared them for and they pay you back".

Gone will be ethnic and gender studies and crap like that.