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The Trump administration has said that it will prevent Harvard from the election for new federal government research grants, increasing its attack on the Elite University.
The Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, wrote on Monday to the president of the University informing him about the decision and criticizing the University for making a “mockery of the higher education system of this country.”
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek subsidies from the federal government, since none will be provident,” McMahon wrote to Alan Garber.
“Harvard will cease to be a publicly founded institution and can operate as a private founded institution, taking advantage of its colossal provision and collecting money from its large rich students.”
A senior official of the Department of Education said the block was specifically related to subsidies for research funds.
Harvard did not respond immediately to a comment request.
The decision is the last coast of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, against Harvard and other elite universities that he has accused of the progressive policy of promotion and fostering a culture of “wokess” on campus.
Last week, Trump said he would discard Harvard’s tax. He had previously announced plans to strip more than $ 2.2 billion in federal funds of the University, which led him to launch legal actions against his administration.
Monday’s announcement occurs after the billionaire of the Bill Ackman Coverage Fund, who directed a successful campaign to disappoint the former Harvard president, Claudine Gay, renewed his own attack against the university and suggested that the government should not have.
“What Harvard should have done is: President Trump: you make some good points. The money of the taxpayers who arrives in Harvard is a privilege, not a right,” said ACKMAN.
In his letter, McMahon accused the University of not addressing anti -Semitism on campus, tolerating discrimination, abandoning academic rigor and lacking a diversity of points of view.
Some experts questioned if the government could unilaterally cancel the financing of subsidies.
“Saying categoricular that an entity will be inligible for subsidies, before there is an adjudication of the entity’s inability to meet the requirements, it could be problematic,” said Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve.
However, he added: “I think part of this is the message that sends to other universities.”
The blockade of funds would last until the resolution of the federal government investigations in the university, according to the senior official of the department. They added that it could be accelerated if the university was going to “open a broader negotiation” with the administration.
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