Will the Harvard University get an approach to federal financing? Ivy League University and Trump’s administration are reportedly approaching an agreement that would require the university to pay $ 500 million to regain access to federal financing and end the investigation.
Sources of the Associated Press report that the framework is still sorted with significant gaps to close, but both parties have agreed on financial value and the settlement can be completed in the coming weeks.
Harvard refused to comment.
The agreement would end the monthly battle that tested the boundaries of government authority over American universities.
What began as an investigation into the campus anti -Semitism was escalated to a completely out of disputes, when Trump’s administration reduced more than $ 2.6 billion in research funding, ended the federal contract and tried to block Harvard in hosting foreign students.
The university responded with a pair of lawsuits that managed the illegal retaliation of the administration after Harvard rejected the set of requirements that the campus leaders considered to be a threat to academic freedom.
Details of the proposed framework were first reported by The New York Times.
Payment of $ 500 million would be the largest amount, as the administration strives for financial sanctions in its settlements with elite universities. Columbia University agreed to pay $ 200 million to the government in an agreement to renew access to federal financing, while Brown University independently agreed to pay $ 50 million to Rhode Island’s workforce development organizations.
The details were not completed where Harvard’s potential payment would lend, the person said.
The Republican President tried to reform prestigious universities that care as bastions of liberal ideology.
His administration reduced funds to several schools Ivy League and at the same time pushed the requirements in accordance with his political campaign. None was focused on as often or strongly as Harvard, the richest US university with a foundation worth $ 53 billion.
More than a dozen democrats in Congress who participated in Harvard warned 1 August against settlement and warned the university that it could guarantee “strict congress supervision and investigation”. Separation for political requirements, they would say would create a dangerous precedent throughout higher education
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