The Trump administration has frozen $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University, citing concerns over the institution's handling of antisemitism on campus. This follows the earlier freezing of over $2 billion in research funds due to Harvard's rejection of federal demands. Tensions escalated between Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Harvard president Alan Garber, with Garber arguing that Harvard is addressing bigotry independently while McMahon criticized the university for violating federal laws. The broader implications of federal overreach into academic freedoms are also highlighted in Garber's response.
Harvard's campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it's not academic freedom; it's institutional disenfranchisement.
In a May 5 letter to Garber, McMahon accused Harvard of engaging in a 'systemic pattern of violating federal law' and making a 'mockery of this country's higher education system.'
Garber pushed back in his own letter, acknowledging concerns about 'antisemitism and other bigotry on campus,' which he said the university is working to address on its own terms.
'Harvard's efforts to achieve these goals are undermined and threatened by the federal government's overreach into the constitutional freedoms of private universities and its continuing disregard of Harvard's compliance with the law.'
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