On Friday, the Trump administration wrote to Harvard to say the school had “failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” The administration issued a series of demands, including the “discontinuation of DEI,” that the school report to federal authorities foreign students who commit conduct violations, and bring in outside parties to “audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity.” The threat was clear enough: Comply or lose your funding.
Harvard said no.
“The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” Harvard president Alan M. Garber wrote, and then promptly lawyered up.
The administration retaliated by pulling 2.2billion dollars in federal funding.
