The administration of Donald Trump announced on Monday the freezing of 2.2 billion dollars (around 1.9 billion euros) in multiannual subsidies and 60 million dollars in multiannual contracts (about 53 million euros) for Harvard University, which hours before reported that he rejected the policy changes demanded by the White House.
The joint work group to combat anti -Semitism, created after Trump’s return to the US presidency, has reported this measure through a statement in which he has assured that Harvard’s statement “reinforces the worrying mentality of privilege, endemic in the most prestigious universities and schools in our country: that federal investment does not entail the responsibility of defending civil rights laws.”
Harassment to Jewish students is intolerable
It has also considered that “The interruption of learning that has affected campus in recent years is unacceptable” and that “harassment to Jewish students is intolerable.” “It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and promise to implement significant changes if they wish to continue receiving the support of taxpayers,” he said.
Previously, Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said that “no government, regardless of the party in power, should dictate What can private universities teachwho can admit and hire, and what areas of study and research can follow. “He also said that the institution was already working on several initiatives to combat anti -Semitism.
Garber has asserted that the end of anti -Semitism “will not be achieved by means of power, disconnected from the law, to control teaching and learning in Harvard and dictate how” they work. “The work of addressing our deficiencies, fulfilling our commitments and embodying our values corresponds to us to define and undertake it as a community,” he added.
Last week this prestigious university institution received a letter with a series of modifications to “maintain the economic relationship” with the federal government. Among the requests, the elimination of programs of diversity, equality and inclusion, changes in the contracting and admission policy, and limiting those who “are more involved in activism than in teaching” were included.
