A list of universities targeted by the Trump administration
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The Trump administration has reduced billions of dollars in federal funding for universities.
This decision has already made that certain institutions have changed the hiring or implementation of layoffs.
The White House has also directly targeted some schools, holding the funds until the requests are completed.
The Trump administration has established its reticle on dozens of universities through the United States as part of an effort to suppress initiatives related to the DEI and what the administration has said it was a creeping presence of anti-Semitism on campuses.
Already, administration measures to reduce federal spending had radical consequences for American higher education establishments.
Universities have implemented hiring or layoffs pursued as billions of dollars in research are threatened or were removed following the Blanche House decision to reduce government agencies or dismantle government agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the US Agency for International Development.
But the administration has also directly threatened several universities to strip them of federal funds, accusing them of not having responded correctly to anti -Semitism on campus or to participate in “exclusive racial practices”.
The Ministry of Education published a letter in March at 60 higher education establishments, including some Ivy League schools, warning them potential probes if they do not do more to protect Jewish students.
Columbia University was stripped of $ 400 million in federal contracts and subsidies after the Trump administration accused the University of poorly managing its response to harassment against Jewish students.
In two weeks, the Ivy League School conceded, by prohibiting masks on campus and hiring more security, in the hope of restoring contracts.
Here is a list of notable cases in which the Trump administration has targeted higher education establishments and how universities have replied:
Harvard University
Harvard University could lose nearly 9 billion subsidies and federal contracts.
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The Ministry of Health and Social Services announced that it was an examination of $ 8.9 billion in federal contracts and subsidies.
The Trump administration accused the University of not protecting its Jewish student body and promoting “division ideologies on a free survey”.
The examination is to “ensure that the university complies with federal regulations, including its responsibilities in matters of civil rights”, according to a statement from the Ministry of Education “.
The president of the Harvard University, Alan Mr. Garber, said in a statement that the school “would commit with the members of the Federal Government Working Group to fight anti -Semitism”.
Columbia University
Columbia returned to Trump with a list of nine proposals.
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The University of Columbia was the first school of Ivy League that the Trump administration targeted on the concerns of anti -Semitism on university campuses.
Administration announcement In a statement, he canceled around $ 400 million in federal contracts and subsidies in Columbia.
The University responded to financing discounts on March 20 with a list of nine proposals which led to an increase in campus security and a stronger application of disciplinary actions, among other actions.
The acting president of Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, resigned after the university announced its concessions.
Princeton University
Blair Hall at Princeton University in the spring.
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The president of the Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, said in an announcement that dozens of research subsidies, including those administered by the Department of Energy, NASA and the Ministry of Defense, were suspended.
The head of the university declared in a statement that the “complete justification” of this decision was not clear, but added that the school was “determined to fight against anti -Semitism and all forms of discrimination”.
Before the announcement, Eisgruber wrote a test in the Atlantic saying that targeting by the Trump Administration of Universities presents “the greatest threat to American universities since red fear of the 1950s”.
Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopkins said it would get rid of more than 2,200 jobs following the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate the American agency for international development.
Part of the funding aimed at work to prevention of the spread of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, the university said in a statement.
“During more than five decades, our colleagues brought the advantages of research, discovery and clinical care to mothers, children and families in the country and in the world, from Nepal to Nigeria, Western Highlands in Guatemala in our hometown of Baltimore,” said President of Ron Daniels.
Michigan University
The University of Michigan has eliminated its Dei office and its related programs.
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The leaders of the University of Michigan eliminated its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and other related programs.
University leaders said in a statement that measures come while “federal actions against the programming of I had intensified”.
“These decisions were not taken lightly,” the statement said. “We recognize that the changes are important and will be difficult for many of us, especially those whose life and careers have been enriched and dedicated to programs that now rotate.”
The school said it would redirect funding to other “students oriented programs”, including financial assistance for low -income families and mental health services.
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania
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The Trump administration suspended $ 175 million in federal contracts from the University of Pennsylvania, citing the participation of a Transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, in the women’s swimming team in 2022.
“These contracts include research on the prevention of infections acquired by the hospital, screening for fatal viruses, quantum IT, protection against chemical war and student loan programs”, the president of the university J. Larry Jameson wrote in a statement at the end of March.
“These working orders are added to several federal subsidies which have been canceled recently and to the slowdown in the allocation of subsidies in the future,” continued Jameson. “We actively continue several ways to understand and approach these financing endings, freeze and slowdown.”