The Secretary of the United States Department of Education, Linda McMahon, stops funds in the escalation of disputes focused on anti -Semitism claims.
The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced that Harvard University will no longer receive public funds for research in a strong escalation of his dispute with the Superior University.
In a letter to Harvard on Monday, the Secretary of the United States Department of Education, Linda McMahon, said that Elite University had made a “mockery” of higher education and should no longer seek federal subsidies, “since it will not be provided.”
“Harvard will no longer be an institution with public funds and, on the other hand, can operate as a private institution, based on its colossal endowment and collecting money from its large base of rich students,” McMahon wrote in the letter.
The measure occurs after the Trump administration was frozen last month with almost $ 2.3 billion in federal funds for Harvard about what he said was his failure to address unbridled anti -Semitism on campus.
The administration announced the freezing after Harvard rejected a series of demands that said that he would submit the university to the control of the undue government, included that accesses external audits of teachers and students to guarantee the “diversity of points of view.”
In his letter, McMahon, former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO, described a series of complaints often made by conservatives against the university, including that he had fostered lax academic standards and admitted foreign students who “participate in violent behavior and show contempt of the United States of the United States.”
“Where do many of these 'students' come from, who they are and how they enter Harvard, or even in our country, and why is there so much hatred?” McMahon wrote in the letter, emulating the use of Trump of letters from every capital to emphasize certain words.
“These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the most important question of all is, why does Harvard not give direct answers to the American public?”
Harvard, who is fighting the freezing of previous financing of the Trump administration in the Court, said in a statement that McMahon's latest demands would have “chilling implications for higher education.”
“Today's letter makes new threats to illegally retain funds for the investigation and innovation of life in reprisals against Harvard for submitting his demand on April 21,” said a University spokesman.
“Harvard will continue to comply with the law, promote and foster respect for the diversity of the point of view, and combat anti -Semitism in our community. Harvard will also continue to defend themselves against the illegal overreach of the government aimed at suffocating the investigation and innovation that make Americans safer and safer.”
American universities have faced the controversy about the alleged anti -Semitism on their campus since last year's eruption of students' protests throughout the country against the Israel War in Gaza.
In two reports published last month, Harvard's separate working groups said students and staff had faced an anti-Jewish and anti-musulman bias on the campus.
In response to the reports, the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, expressed concern that some students would have been pushed “to the periphery of the life of the campus due to who they are or what they believe”, and promised to redouble the efforts to ensure that the university was a place where “mutual respect is the norm.”
Trump and prominent conservatives in the United States have also long accused Harvard and other universities to propagate extreme left view points and quell the right -wing perspectives.
