President Donald Trump doubled at the University of Harvard and threatened their tax exempt status because the tension was escalated after the elite American university refused to accept far -reaching policy changes ordered by the White House.
Donald Trump said that the University of Harvard “should lose his tax exempt status and be taxed as a political entity” if it is not subject to its university requirements to change the way it runs itself, including the selection of students and authority for professors.
The state of exemption is “completely dependent on playing in the public interest,” he added in his contribution to his social network of truth.
Previously, Donald Trump has already moved to freeze $ 2.2 billion Federal funds for retaliation in defiance of the highest university to pressure to bring campuses to the heel.
Trump accused Harvard of pushing “political, ideological and terrorist inspired” ideas rather than acting in the public interest.
The accusation of anti -Semitism was balanced against many American universities and universities because the extensive protests of the campus were against the Gaza War.
The Joint Working Group of Trump in the fight against anti -Semitism responded on Monday a statement that in multi -year grants it announced the possession of $ 2.2 billion, plus freezing to $ 60 million in government contracts.
What does Donald Trump demand from Harvard?
The head of the US Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration signed a letter to Harvard on Friday. In this letter, they claimed that “Harvard has failed to meet the conditions of intellectual and civil rights in recent years that justify federal investments.”
This was followed by a list of requirements for the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts to meet. The key among them was:
- The support of the faculty has undertaken to the requirements of Trump’s Harvard administration, as stated in the letter, and “reducing the power” of the faculty and administrators “more committed to activism than the scholarship”.
- Until August, the end of all positive events for hiring the faculty and accepting students. At the same time, the letter demanded that the university to ensure the “diversity of the point of view” by canceling the criteria during receiving and hiring “This function as tests of ideological lacm”.
- Changing the admission process “to prevent the adoption of foreign students hostile to US values”, including “students supporting terrorism or anti -Semitism”. The letter did not define what it means “American values”. For the academic year 2024-2025, there were 6,793 international students on Harvard, which was 27.2 percent of its total enrollment-less than 20 percent in 2006-2007.
- Changing disciplinary policies and prohibiting recognition and financing of student groups or clubs that support “crime, illegal violence or illegal harassment”.
- Performing a comprehensive prohibition of mask with immediate, serious sanctions for violations “no less than suspension” after some students protested while wearing masks. The letter did not give any exceptions to this rule, such as health reasons.
- Closing all programs and offices of all diversity, justice and inclusion (Dei) and organizational reform to ensure transparency with federal regulators.
In a letter to students and the faculty, President Harvard Alan Garber has committed himself to resist the government and insisted that the school “does not negotiate his independence or constitutional rights”.
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