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Thursday, May 8, 2025

US Govt freezes $2.2B in grants to Harvard over campus activism

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FILE - Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

FILE - Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Ben Curtis

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment says it’s freez­ing more than $2.2 bil­lion in grants and $60 mil­lion in con­tracts to Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, af­ter the in­sti­tu­tion said it would de­fy the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s de­mands to lim­it ac­tivism on cam­pus.

The hold on Har­vard’s fund­ing marks the sev­enth time Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion has tak­en the step at one of the na­tion’s most elite col­leges, in an at­tempt to force com­pli­ance with Trump’s po­lit­i­cal agen­da. Six of the sev­en schools are in the Ivy League.

In a let­ter to Har­vard Fri­day, Trump’s ad­min­is­tra­tion had called for broad gov­ern­ment and lead­er­ship re­forms at the uni­ver­si­ty, as well as changes to its ad­mis­sions poli­cies. It al­so de­mand­ed the uni­ver­si­ty au­dit views of di­ver­si­ty on cam­pus, and stop rec­og­niz­ing some stu­dent clubs.

The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment said al­most $9 bil­lion in grants and con­tracts in to­tal were at risk if Har­vard did not com­ply.

On Mon­day, Har­vard Pres­i­dent Alan Gar­ber said the uni­ver­si­ty would not bend to the gov­ern­ment’s de­mands.

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