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Harvard University says it will plough $250 million into funding “critical research” after the US government announced fresh budget cuts to the elite school.<\/p>\n
Federal agencies are slashing $2.6 billion in grants to Harvard, citing discrimination at one of the world’s top universities.<\/p>\n
Harvard has taken the Trump administration to court over what it calls an unlawful attempt to control aspects of the university’s operations.<\/p>\n
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“Although we cannot absorb the entire cost of the suspended or canceled federal funds, we will mobilize financial resources to support critical research activity for a transitional period ,” said Harvard President Alan Garber and Provost John Manning in a joint statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
They said the university would “continue to work with our researchers to identify alternative funding sources.”<\/p>\n
The statement slammed the “unlawful freeze and termination” of grants which were “stopping lifesaving research and, in some cases, losing years of important work.”<\/p>\n
Harvard is the wealthiest US university with an endowment valued at $53.2 billion in 2024.<\/p>\n
The Ivy League institution has drawn Trump’s ire by refusing to comply with his demands that it accept government oversight of its admissions, hiring practices and political slant.<\/p>\n
That prompted the Trump administration last month to freeze $2.2 billion in federal funding, with a further $450 million in cuts announced on Tuesday.<\/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
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It has also moved to revoke visas and deport foreign students involved in protests against the war in Gaza, accusing them of supporting Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n
Trump’s claims about diversity tap into long-standing conservative complaints that US university campuses are too liberal, shutting out right-wing voices and favoring minorities.<\/p>\n
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