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Trump comes down hard on ‘political’ Harvard University, cuts endowments

Anmol Kumar by Anmol Kumar
April 16, 2025
in Americas
Trump's cut endowments of Harvard University

Trump's cut endowments of Harvard University

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The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus. The federal government said that the total cost of almost $9 billion in grants and contracts would be at risk if Harvard did not comply. The controversy began when the Trump administration demanded that Harvard enforce stricter control over campus protests, particularly those related to Israel-Palestine tensions.

In a letter to Harvard on Friday, Trump’s administration called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies. It also demanded the university audit views of diversity on campus, and stop recognizing some student clubs.

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The administration has argued that the universities have allowed antisemitism to go unchecked at campus protests last year against Israel’s war in Gaza.

US President Trump has been openly critical of what he sees as an extreme left liberal bias in elite academic institutions. The current situation escalated after Harvard rejected White House demands, resulting in retaliatory warnings—including halting billions in federal funds for scientific research.

Critics claim that the Trump administration has normalized the extraordinary step of withholding federal money to pressure major academic institutions to comply with the president’s political agenda and to influence campus policy. However, the truth is that the students from these campuses have consistently indulged in political activism. Being involved in politics or having a political view is a part of college life, but primarily, these institutions get funding for academic work. If students are indulging in organizing protests and politicizing the campus, it will harm the very purpose of the universities.

Universities are not a place to incite communal and religious violence by targeting any particular community in the name of political movement or freedom of expression. Trump believes that the taxpayers are not funding these universities to spread hate and disrupt the day-to-day life of the common people. Instead, they are paying for quality research that can help humanity. Billions of grants are not being given to the universities to oppose the taxpayers’ elected government policies in the shadow of freedom of expression and academic freedom.

Putting tents on the campus and protesting for foreign political movements is not going to solve the problems of that community. Hence, disruptions are not the solution nor the right way of putting things in a political discourse.

The freeze of billions in federal research funding to Harvard University may have a consequential effect on the university and its students. Harvard students could miss research chances, top teachers’ guidance, and federal grants that help new ideas grow. If funding stays uncertain, great professors and researchers might leave, causing a brain drain. The situation could make visa renewals and scholarships harder for immigrant and international students, especially if they are linked to federal research. With immigration already a hot topic, studying in the US might become even more difficult. Research in critical areas like cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and public health could face big delays. Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health is at high risk because nearly half of its budget comes from federal grants.

It means the stakes are high, and the university should be thinking of its legacy and the requirements of the situation and comply with Trump’s demands or face the consequent actions that may damage the institutes in the long run.

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Anmol Kumar

Anmol Kumar

A Failed Shuttler and an upcoming geopolitical analyst, who always try to bring a different angle of any geopolitical event. I spend my spare time in reading non-fictional books, cooking food and spending time on sports.

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