The Trump administration sends a list of requests to Harvard to protect federal funds

The Trump administration sent a list of requests to Harvard on Thursday that should have been satisfied to end a revision of the government of $ 9 billion that the school receives in federal funding.

The government has announced the review at the beginning of this week, which threatened to cancel everything or part of the money as part of its campaign against what considering uncontrolled anti -Semitism on campus.

The conditions largely follow the playbook that the Trump administration used to force Columbia University TO respect your requests Last month, after canceling $ 400 million grants and federal contracts of that school. In both cases, the government asked Harvard and Columbia to impose prohibitions, with few exemptions, to masking.

Filo-Palestinian students have often used masks during protests against the war in Gaza to obscure their identities after many said they had been harassed online when their personal information were revealed.

The Trump administration has also put pressure on universities to intensify the efforts to make groups of students “responsible”, cease admission practices based on race policies, color or national origin and renew on campus protests.

Harvard would also be required to “commit to full collaboration” with the Department for National Security, the agency that applies immigration policies, including deportations.

Although the Trump administration did not insist on the fact that a specific academic department is placed under external control, also known as “controlled administration”, as he did in Columbia, said that the “Harvard programs and departments that feed the anti -Semitic harassment must be magazines and the necessary changes made to face the prejudice, improve the diversity of sight and to end the ideological capture”.

Thursday, the officials of the White House said that the administration also intended to block $ 510 million in federal contracts and scholarships for Brown UniversityMaking it the fifth university known to face a potentially disastrous loss of federal funding.

Like many of his Ivy League peers, Brown was the site of clashes on the war in Gaza. But it was also one of the universities that was also one of the universities business facts With students to end their protest camps in the spring, agreements that have been criticized to be too soft for students.

A Harvard spokesman confirmed that the university received his letter on Thursday, but he did not make any additional comment. The letter was reported for the first time by Fox News.

The letter of the Trump administration stated that Harvard “had basically failed to protect the American students and faculties from anti -Semitic violence” and that he expected “immediate cooperation in the implementation of these critical reforms”.

“U.S. taxpayers invest enormously in colleges and universities, including Harvard University”, according to the letter. “These funds are an investment and, like any investment, they are based on the recipient’s performance, not due in costume or right.”

The letter was signed by Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the federal acquisition service at the administration of general services; Sean Keveney, the general acting consultant at the Department of Health and Human Services; and Thomas E. Wheeler, the general acting consultant at the Department of Education.

On Monday, Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, said that the university spent “a considerable effort” In the last 15 months they turn to anti -Semitismadding that there was even more work to do.

He said that Harvard would work with the administration, but warned that the cancellation of federal funding “will stop life -saving research and endangered important research and scientific innovation”.

“A lot is at stake here,” wrote Dr. Garber. “In the long -standing partnership with the Federal Government, we launched and fed rupture research that made countless healthier and safer people, more curious and more well informed, improving their life, their communities and our world”.

The Administration Crusade against the Higher Elite Institutions includes the creation of A Task Force On the anti -Semitism that targeted 10 colleges, including Harvard, the richest university in the world.

The Trump administration announced last month that its revision to Harvard would include a glance at $ 9 billion of federal contracts and multi -year subsidies with university and its affiliates, a group that seemed to include several hospitals in the Boston area.

Harvard had announced a freezing of hires in early March, citing the uncertainty created by the threats of Mr. Trump to continue cutting funding for higher education, although public and private universities throughout the country have been deeply affected by Trump’s financing cuts.

Ryan Enos, co -author of a faculty letter that invokes Harvard to oppose the government attacks on higher education, said that requests were “authoritarian extortion, not serious political objectives” in a message on Thursday. He urged Harvard to refuse them.

In the following weeks, the Trump administration has announced actions against three other universities. This included a break of $ 175 million in Financing at the University of Pennsylvania and the Suspension of dozens of subsidies in Princeton.

Alan Blinder AND Vimal Patel Contributed relationships.