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The US government on Tuesday announced fresh funding cuts to Harvard, a day after the elite school’s president said it shared “common ground” with the Trump administration on many issues.<\/p>\n
Federal agencies are terminating $450 million in grants to Harvard, on top of the $2.2 billion in cuts unveiled last week, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement, citing a “dark problem” of discrimination at the school.<\/p>\n
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Harvard — one of the world’s top universities — has taken the Trump administration to court over what it calls an unlawful attempt to control aspects of the university’s operations.<\/p>\n
The White House is cracking down on US universities on several fronts, justified as a reaction to what the administration says is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and a need to reverse diversity programs aimed at addressing historical oppression of minorities.<\/p>\n
But in a letter Monday to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Harvard President Alan Garber asserted that “we share common ground on a number of critical issues.”<\/p>\n
Garber said the university had launched institution-wide reforms after “an extraordinarily painful year for our community” in the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas assault on Israel.<\/p>\n
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“The challenges of that academic year have led to meaningful reform and recommendations designed to eliminate antisemitism and other forms of hate from our campus,” Garber wrote.<\/p>\n
While refuting claims that Harvard is aligned with any political party or ideology, Garber acknowledged a need for greater intellectual diversity on campus and said students were recruited based on “individuals and their unique characteristics” rather than race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Tuesday’s statement from Trump’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism lashed out at the university as “a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination.”<\/p>\n
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The university’s own probe into campus dynamics found that Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault and intimidation, the statement said.<\/p>\n
“Harvard, and its leadership group who are tainted by the egregious infractions under its watch, faces a steep, uphill battle to reclaim its legacy as a lawful institution and center of academic excellence,” it said.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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