US canceled Harvard grants for $ 60 million
Trump Administration cancels Harvard grants through protests in campus
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The US Ministry of Health and Social Services ceases Federal Grants for Harvard University worth $ 60 million.
The reason was that the university allegedly did not cope with the manifestations of anti -Semitic oppression and ethnic discrimination in the campus.
About it reports Reuters.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has already frozen or canceled federal grants and Harvard contracts with a total cost of almost $ 3 billion.
According to the publication, the White House actively uses the state funding of research as a tool for influencing the policies of US universities, which, in his opinion, are influenced by « anti -American », Marxist and « radically left » ideologies.
The administration accuses Harvard of continuing to take into account ethnicity when selecting entrants, as well as to tolerate the discrimination of Jews against the background of strengthening of propelladest student protests, which were laid by US campus last year.
Columbia University in New York also was similar charges under pressure.
« Due to the systemic inability of Harvard University to eliminate anti -Semitic persecution and racial discrimination, the Ministry of Health abolishes a number of perennial grants in full », « – It is said In the publication of the department on the social network X.
Harvard University has not commented on this message at this time.
In April higher education He sued Trump’s administration, accusing the White House of a arbitrary reduction in the financing of university research in order to « punish an institution for the protection of its constitutional rights. »
Harvard’s complaint accuses the Trump administration of illegally freezing billions of funds for research in order to force the university to change the management structure, academic programs and hiring policies.
In early March Harvard University announcedwhich temporarily suspended the hiring of teachers and staff because of the « financial uncertainty » caused by Trump’s policies.
