Harvard continues the Trump administration on threats to reduce funding

Harvard, the richest university in the world, continued the Trump administration on Monday, fighting against its threats to reduce billions of dollars in school funding for a crusade against the best colleges in the country.

The trial reported a major escalation of the undergoing struggle between higher education and President Trump, who promised to “recover” elite universities. The administration launched its campaign as a fight against anti -Semitism, but also targeted the programs and education linked to racial diversity and gender ideology.

Earlier this month, he sent Harvard a list of requests that included audit teachers for plagiarism, by bringing international students accused of misconduct to the federal government and by appointing an external supervisor to ensure that university departments were “various points of view”.

Alan Mr. Garber, president of Harvard, accused the government in a statement on Monday of trying to empty “unprecedented and inappropriate control”. Dr. Garber said that the consequences of government actions are “serious and sustainable”.

The Trump administration said that Harvard and other schools had enabled the language and anti -Semitic harassment to stay without control over their campuses. Monday’s trial noted that the government had cited the university’s response to anti -Semitism as a justification for its “illegal action”.

Dr. Garber, in his declaration, said that “as a Jew and as a American, I know very well that there are valid concerns concerning the increase in anti -Semitism”. But he said that the government was legally required to engage with the university on the way it was fighting against anti -Semitism. Instead, he said, the government has sought to control “what we hire and what we teach”.