The United States government planned to withdraw another $ 1 billion in the federal grant and Health research contract From Harvard University, increasing the struggle on institutional autonomy reported by Wall Street Journal.
The administration announced the last Monday to suspend $ 60 million in contract price following Harvard’s refusal to follow its decisions and policy needs to suspend $ 2.2 billion in multi-air grant.
According to the Sunday report of the journal, when the university revealed a letter from the task force to counter the anti-Jewishness from the task force, the authorities were caught by the guard.
“Before Monday, the administration was planning to be more generous with Harvard than the University of Columbia, but now, according to the officials, wanted to apply even more pressure to the country’s most prominent university,” the journal is reported.
“People familiar with Harvard’s response say that there was no compromise to keep the letter private, and that its contents-include Harvard requirements, which allowed the federal-government in Harvard, hiring, and allow students and employees’ ideology-a nonstarter.”
The University of Columbia implemented the administration demands last month, which included policy changes, including the protest limit, new disciplinary measures and immediate review of the study of the Middle East, after the return of $ 400 million in federal funding by President Donald Trump.
According to the Sunday report of the journal, sources close to the situation indicated that the task force estimated that Harvard would follow his needs similarly.
The danger of funding withdrawal represents the latest development in the ongoing dispute between the institution and the government.
Harvard, now representing the resistance to Trump’s policies, reject the demands in a letter of April 11, President Allen M. Garber said that “the university will not surrender its freedom or abandon its constitutional rights.”
The demands of the letter included campus demonstrations banning masks, qualifying-based recruitment and modifying admission processes, and reducing the rights of employees included “more committed to activism than scholarship”.
The leadership of the university maintains these requirements, more than the Federal Authority, most “rather than addressed the direct government regulation of ‘intellectual conditions’ in Harvard” instead of addressing the antisementism.
On Wednesday, CNN reported plans for the inner revenue service to withdraw the tax-free position of the university, according to two reported sources. The administration also threatened Harvard Authority to enroll international students.
The New York Times said on Friday that the letter of April 11 was sent incorrectly and was “unauthorized” citing two anonymous sources familiar with the situation.
A representative of the White House, not addressing the claim of error, confirmed the authenticity of the letter to CNN on Saturday, stating that the White House “stands by the letter.”
Harvard informed CNN that it acknowledged the authenticity of the letter, taking into account the existing freeze of administration on billions in federal funding.
