The Trump administration is freezing more than $US2 billion ($NZ3.3b) in grants to Harvard after the university said it was rejecting a list of demands from the federal government.
The administration has been pressuring the Cambridge school to end DEI programmes and to "audit" the viewpoints of its student body, faculty and staff. This comes as the feds threaten to cut more than $US8.7b in multiyear grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates amid an anti-Semitism investigation.
After Harvard on Monday announced it would not comply with the demands, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said it was freezing $US2.2b in multiyear grants and $US60m in multiyear contract value to Harvard.
"Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges — that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws," the taskforce said. — Boston Herald
