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Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photograph: Kenneth Martin\/Zuma\/Rex\/Shutterstock\u00a9\u00a0Photograph: Kenneth Martin\/ZUMA Press Wire\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Harvard University<\/a> has filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration<\/a>, alleging it is trying to \u201cgain control of academic decision-making at Harvard\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university is fighting back against the administration\u2019s threat to review<\/a> about $9bn in federal funding<\/a> after Harvard officials refused<\/a> to comply with a list of demands that included appointing an outside overseer to ensure that the viewpoints being taught at the university were \u201cdiverse\u201d. Harvard is specifically looking to halt a freeze on $2.2bn in grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit comes as the Trump administration has sought to force changes at multiple Ivy League institutions after months of student activism centered around the war in Gaza. The administration has painted the campus protests are anti-American, and the institutions as liberal and antisemitic, which Harvard\u2019s president, Alan Garber, refuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement that the \u201cgravy train of federal assistance\u201d to institutions like Harvard was coming to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTaxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege,\u201d Fields said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter announcing the university\u2019s decision to reject Trump\u2019s demands, Garber wrote: \u201cNo government \u2013 regardless of which party is in power \u2013 should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garber, in a statement published on Monday<\/a>, reiterated that the Trump administration<\/a> had doubled down on its response to the university\u2019s refusal to comply with the administration\u2019s demands, despite claims that the letter indicating Harvard\u2019s federal research funding was at risk was sent by mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government has, in addition to the initial freeze of $2.2bn in funding, considered taking steps to freeze an additional $1bn in grants, initiated numerous investigations of Harvard\u2019s operations, threatened the education of international students, and announced that it is considering a revocation of Harvard\u2019s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status,\u201d Garber wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese actions have stark real-life consequences for patients, students, faculty, staff, researchers, and the standing of American higher education in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard is the first university to file a lawsuit in response to Trump\u2019s crackdown on top US universities that is says mishandled last year\u2019s pro-Palestinian protests and allowed antisemitism to fester on campuses. But protesters, including some Jewish groups, say their criticism of Israel\u2019s military actions in Gaza is wrongly conflated with antisemitism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the Trump administration had sent a letter to Harvard with the list of demands, which included changes to its admissions policies, removing recognition of some student clubs, and hiring some new faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Tuesday, Trump had called for Harvard, the US\u2019s oldest and wealthiest university and one of the most prestigious in the world, to lose its tax-exempt status, CNN first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired\/supporting \u2018Sickness?\u2019 Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!\u201d the US president said in a post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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