The American government’s answer came quickly. A few hours after Harvard President Alan Garber had decisively rejected a “direct state influence” to academic freedom at his university, the government’s anti-Semitism-Taskforce published a five-set explanation. The last was the greatest force: due to the lack of cooperation, funding of $ 2.2 billion and contracts worth $ 60 million due to the lack of cooperation. But the debate is accompanied by President Donald Trump’s attempt to bring “left-wing radical-radical” and “wokes” in the country to line. Friday’s letter said that Harvard had not fulfilled “both the intellectual and civil law conditions” for federal funds in recent years. In order to continue to receive financing, the university must therefore take several steps. In addition to a reform of programs against anti -Semitism, an end to all diversity programs was also required to have harder disciplinary measures against students (specifically examinations of the protests in the past year) and progress reports to the government every four months. Harvard was also supposed to commission an “external” group that should “check the diversity of opinion”. A corresponding report must be submitted to the government by the end of this year. “No government- regardless of which party is in power- should indicate what private universities are allowed to teach, who they can record and hire and what study and research areas they can pursue,” he wrote in the open letter. Such an intervention violates the constitutional right to freedom of expression and exceeds the legal powers of the government as part of the “Civil Rights Act”, the discrimination due to origin or Forbids religion. The formulated goal of fighting anti -Semitism is not reached closer to the “claims of power” that “control and learn and learn in Harvard and prescribe how we should work”. This is likely to relate to the fact that many funds flow into the research of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and the development of technologies such as AI and quantum computers. However, seven billion dollars go to the eleven university hospitals connected to the eleven and two billion directly to the University of Research Granting. At first it was not clear which programs would be recorded by the stop. Overall, the university had a foundation asset of around $ 53 billion in the past year. Trump, however, sees the universities in the hands of communists and Marxisten also in Harvard, but apparently a back door is left open for possible negotiations. In a first version of the letter it said that one would not “negotiate” the independence or constitutional rights of the university. Later we talked about it would not be “given up”. According to media reports, lawyers of the university also wrote to the government on Monday that it is “open to dialogue”, but will not accept any conditions that went beyond the “statutory authority” of the government. According to the “Taskforce to fight anti -Semitism” in February, it is preserved to “express anti -Semitic attacks at schools and universities”. However, the group also acts against other principles that are a thorn in the side of the Trump government, for example. It is about ending the “ideological capture” of the universities. Trump had already promised in the election campaign to “recapture the” once great “American educational institutions from the radicals on the left. The lever of the task force is the federal money. Trump had already announced this tactic in 2023. At that time he spoke of the financial support for “communist indoctrination” and “Marxist attacks on our American heritage” will soon come to an end. They will be “turned the money tap”. Head of TaskForce is Leo Terrell, a civil rights lawyer and former Fox news commentator who came to criticism in March when he shared the contribution of a well-known neo-Nazis on the X platform. said he was “no longer a Jew, but Palestinians”. Casey wrote that Trump had the power to “withdraw the Jewish card”. Among the other members are Sean Keveney, the incumbent chief lawyer of the Ministry of Health, as well as a software developer, an official of the federal creational system and a former advisor to the Ministry of Education. The Taskforce pursues the approach: Then threaten. At the end of March, Katrina Armstrong, the head of the Columbia University, was shown at the end of March. She had made far-reaching concessions to the government, but then said in a publicly become a zoom discussion that she did not want to comply with certain agreements-a ban on mask on campus and, for example. The group reacted with a brief statement: The resignation was “an important step to advance the negotiations”. In the Columbia case, it was about $ 400 million, which the Trump government had initially held back.
