White House steps up the war against Harvard University
Over the past week, the White House has directed several murder against the rich university of Massachusetts in the United States.
First, Trump announced that the government freezes just over $ 2 billion in state grants to the university. He then urged the US Swedish Tax Agency to cancel Harvard’s tax -exempt status – and begin taxing it as a political organization. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Domestic Security also threatened that recall the right of university to adopt international students.
On Friday came the latest in the line of pressure attempts.
In a letter to the Harvarna Alan Garber demands the US Department of Education that the university provides a list of all transfers from foreign donors over the past decade. It reports Wall Street Journalwho took part in the document.
« Today’s request is the Trump administration’s first step to ensure that Harvard is not manipulated by foreign players, » said Education Minister Linda McMahon in a statement, without presenting any reasons for such suspicions.
By law, US universities must report all donations greater than $ 250,000. The administration accuses the university of not reporting all foreign donations that exceed that amount.
In a written statement, the Harvard disputes the charges. The university writes that it has submitted such minutes for several decades – « as part of our ongoing compliance with the law ».
Earlier this year went Another prestigious university – Columbia in New York – on a number of demands from the Trump administration after pressure and threats of strangled financing. Harvard, on the other hand, has refused to fold and the principal Alan Garber has previously responded by calling the Trump administration’s requirements for illegal.
The conflicts are largely about the anti -Israeli protests organized at a wide range of elite universities in the United States during the war in Gaza. The Trump administration has called the protests anti -Semitic, and accused the protesters of sympathizing with terrorists.
The Government also claims that top universities in the United States brainwashes its students with left -wing ideas, and requires them to take in external assessors who review schools’ ideologies.
« No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, who they can adopt and employ and what studies and surveys they can do, » Garber has written, among other things.
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