Washington (AP) – Trump administration interrupted Research subsidies At Princeton University, Ivy League’s last school to see its federal money threatened in a pressure campaign targeting the best universities in the country.
Princeton was informed this week that dozens of federal subsidies are suspended by agencies such as the Ministry of Energy, NASA and the Department of Defense, according to a message on the campus sent Tuesday by Christopher Eisgruber, president of the university.
Eisgruber said that the justification was not entirely clear, but that Princeton will comply with the law. The school is one of the dozens of federal anti-Semitism investigations following a wave of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year.
“We are committed to fighting anti -Semitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in the fight against anti -Semitism,” wrote Eisgruber. “Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the rights of the regular procedure of this university.”
While President Donald Trump presss his political program on universities across the country, he paid particular attention to the institutions of the Ivy League.
Columbia University was the first targeted, lose $ 400 million In federal money with threats to terminate more if it did not make campus safer for Jewish students. School accepted several requests Of the government last month, including a overhaul of the student discipline rules and an examination of the Department of Studies of the Middle East of the School.
The government later suspended about $ 175 million In the federal funding of the University of Pennsylvania for a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a working group on federal anti -Semitism said that it was examining nearly $ 9 billion in federal subsidies and contracts at Harvard University in the midst of a campus anti -Semitism investigation.
Pressure has created a dilemma for American colleges, which are based on federal funding for research as a major income source.
Eisgruber has come forward as a voice of the opposition when the Trump administration has increased pressure on Columbia, calling it the greatest threat to American universities in decades.
“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to learned excellence and American leadership in research,” Eisgruber wrote in a trial of March 19 in Atlantic magazine. “Universities and their leaders should express themselves and argue forcefully to protect their rights.”
Several agencies on the working group on federal anti -Semitism have not immediately answered questions on action in Princeton, any more than the agencies behind research subsidies.
Princeton was one of the 60 universities which received a warning letter from the Department of Education in March for charges of anti -Semitism. He said schools could cope with law implementation measures if they did not attack anti-Jewish prejudices on campus. All the schools of the Ivy League, except two, Penn and Dartmouth, were on the list.
The Department of Education launched an investigation in Princeton in April 2024 under the Biden administration. It was in response to a complaint filed by the editor -in -chief of campus Reform, a conservative press organization, reported the point of sale. The complaint cited a pro-Palestinian demonstration which would have included songs of “intifada” and others described as anti-Semites.
The editor -in -chief of the point of sale has filed dozens of other anti -Semitism complaints with the Department of Education.
The Trump administration has promised a more aggressive approach to campus anti -Semitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools take down. He opened new surveys in colleges and detained and expelled Several foreign students with links with pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Trump and other officials accused demonstrators of being “pro-Hamas”. Activist students say they oppose Israel Military activity in Gaza.
He followed a republican campaign at the congress which asked for answers from university leaders after the wave of demonstrations. A series of Audiences on Capitol Hill contributed to the resignation of presidents to Harvard,, Colombia And Penn.
The acting president of Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, resigned last week After the school has accepted government requests.
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