The administration of the US President, Donald Trump, threatened on Wednesday, April 16, prohibiting the American University of Harvard on Wednesday, April 16, welcoming foreign students, if he does not agree to undergo control in matters of admission, hiring and political guidance.
“If Harvard cannot demonstrate that he fully complies with his declaration obligations, the University will lose the privilege of registering foreign students,” wrote the United States Internal Security Ministry in a press release.
Harvard “teaches hate and imbecility”, and “should no longer receive federal funds,” wrote The American President on Truth Social, two days after reducing $ 2.2 billion in federal subsidies of several years in the establishment.
The presidency of the University had marked the spirits on Monday by publicly opposing the requests of the Trump administration, a particular destined according to the White House to fight the semitism on the campus.
Donald Trump replied that Harvard, four centuries, “could no longer be considered a place of decent learning and that it should not be in any list of important universities in the world.” The institution essentially recruits “radical leftists, idiots and sparrows,” according to him.
University in the Visitor of the Preservatives
The institution located in the Boston agglomeration, which has approximately 30,000 students and has formed 162 winners of the Nobel Prize, has led for years in the World Shanghai ranking of higher education establishments.
But he is in the visitor of the preservatives in the offensive against the American universities that they consider too much to the left. The attacks that were redoubled in the spring of 2024 during the properly student mobilizations against the war fought by Israel in Gaza.
At that time, the Republicans accused universities of not protecting Jewish students and their presidents, including those of Harvard and Columbia, had resigned.
Donald Trump had demanded Harvard on Tuesday that she presents her “apologies” and punished her tax exemption, believing that “he should be imposed as a political entity, if he continues to defend his” political ideological madness, inspired by/supporting terrorism. “
The private university, with a great inheritance of more than $ 50 billion, benefits from an exemption from federal tax authorities and the state of Massachusetts.
Harvard defends its independence
Donald Trump accuses the university and these other institutions to let the semitism thrive in their campus, and their government asked them to establish a complete series of measures, including an “audit” of the opinions of the students and the teaching staff, which fails which the federal state would reduce their subsidies.
But he obtained an end of not receiving from Harvard. In a letter addressed to students and teachers, the president of the University, Alan Garber, recalled on Monday that the institution had already initiated actions against anti -Semitism for more than a year and assured that he would not abandon “his independence, or his rights guaranteed by the Constitution”, as the first amendment on freedom of expression.
“No government, whatever the ruling party, should dictate to private universities what they should teach, that can enlist and hire, or on what issues can conduct research,” he added.
A freezing of subsidies with immediate effect
This position caused the freezing of 2,200 million federal subsidies, with immediate effect: Sarah Fortune, a recognized researcher, received the order to stop his research on tuberculosis for the federal structure that finances it, NIH, the Harvard Public Health School informed the AFP.
In addition, “if Harvard cannot demonstrate that he fully complies with his declaration obligations, the University will lose the privilege of registering foreign students,” wrote the United States Internal Security Ministry in a press release.
Harvard’s response firm was praised by hundreds of teachers and several figures of the Democratic Party, including Barack Obama, the former president who greeted an “example” and hoping that other “institutions” will follow this path.
Harvard is distinguished from Columbia in New York, who agreed to initiate deep reforms, seen by some as a capitulation before the Trump administration. However, Columbia said he would reject “any agreement that makes us give up our independence.”
Source: BFM TV
