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Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard
2025-04-15 09:13:15 / BOTA
The Trump administration announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts with Harvard University after the educational institution said it would not comply with government demands to change its policies, putting nearly $9 billion in federal funding at risk.
The university received a letter from a federal task force last week outlining additional policy conditions for maintaining Harvard's financial relationship with the government.
"We have informed the administration, through our legal counsel, that we will not accept their proposed settlement," Harvard President Alan M. Garber said in a statement.
"The university will not give up its independence and constitutional rights."
The Trump administration has threatened many colleges across the United States with funding cuts if they do not make changes to school policies, and Harvard's move is the first by an elite university to reject the White House's demands.
These include eliminating Harvard's diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, banning masks during campus protests, reforming merit-based hiring and admissions, and reducing the power of faculty and administrators.
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