Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House’s sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, after the institution said it would not bow to demands from Donald Trump’s administration. The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make...
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Robin Levinson-King and Mike Wendling BBC News Watch: ‘It’s not right’ – Students react to Trump freezing Harvard’s federal funding Harvard University says it will not acquiesce to US President Donald Trump’s demands – federal funding or no. “No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can...
Former President Barack Obama is applauding Harvard University’s decision to refuse the White House’s demands that it change its policies or lose federal money, in his first social media post to criticise the Trump administration since at least Inauguration Day. President Donald Trump is freezing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in federal funds for Harvard because...
As John wrote yesterday evening, Harvard declared that it would not “surrender its independence” after the Trump administration demanded significant changes in policies relating to the anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns on its campus. Hours later, they received good news … … the White House thinks Harvard should be independent as well: Harvard University said Monday it...
Harvard University has rejected a list of sweeping demands sent by the White House that asked the university to change many of its policies or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the university wrote on its X account on Monday. The...
Harvard has been under increasing pressure from the Trump administration this month. Back on April 3rd, the administration sent a letter making it clear that Harvard’s federal funding was contingent on the university’s willingness to make changes including the elimination of DEI policies. The Trump administration demanded on Thursday that Harvard eliminate diversity, equity, and...
