All posts tagged "Harvard University"

Donald Trump has threatened Harvard University with a one billion dollar lawsuit in a late night post on Truth Social.

The president called out the Massachusetts-based institute in a post to the social media app after it was reported the Trump administration had to backtrack from a $200million payment demand from the university.

A post to Truth Social from Trump reads, "Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been feeding a lot of “nonsense” to The Failing New York Times. Harvard has been, for a long time, behaving very badly! They wanted to do a convoluted job training concept, but it was turned down in that it was wholly inadequate and would not have been, in our opinion, successful. ...

A federal judge in Boston who sided with Harvard University and ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants delivered a "gutsy challenge" to the U.S. Supreme Court and Trump, calling on lower courts to "safeguard academic freedom."

In the 84-page order, Judge Allison Burroughs calls the government's use of "combatting antisemitism" as a "smokescreen" for an "ideological assault" on universities, criticizing SCOTUS for its recent emergency rulings.

The administration's move to freeze the funding violated U.S. law and the Constitution's free speech protections, she wrote. ...

A Brown University student got into trouble with the administration after sending an Elon Musk-style email to gather information for an article in his college paper.

The New York Times reported that sophomore Alex Shieh sent "DOGE-style questions" to Brown's administrative employees asking them to justify their jobs. His action was inspired by Musk's February email to federal employees instructing them to list five things they accomplished over the week "or risk termination."

The questions ranged from "Please describe your role," to "What tasks have you performed in the past week?" and "How would Brown students be affected if your job didn’t exist?"...

President Donald Trump's education secretary Linda McMahon drew scathing criticism on social media for touting academic research that falls in line with the Trump administration's values.

McMahon told CNBC on Wednesday, "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

Her comments followed in the wake of Trump's recent attacks on Harvard University over issues of free speech and academic freedoms. ...

Former Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe compared President Donald Trump's disregard of the law to some of history's worst autocrats in a CNN interview Wednesday.

Tribe's comments came after Trump upped his retaliatory measures against the Ivy League university for defying him on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as allegations of antisemitism. So far, Trump has threatened to cut billions of dollars in grant money and attempted to revoke Harvard from enrolling foreign students — a move that has since been blocked by a federal judge as a "blatant violation" of the Constitution.

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CNN's Wolf Blitzer was stunned Friday by analysis of Harvard University's lawsuit against the Trump administration's decree that international students are no longer permitted to attend the institution.

The Department of Homeland Security, under Kristi Noem, announced Thursday that it was barring Harvard from admitting international students as punishment for defying the president on DEI and alleged antisemitism on campus, among other things. Trump has already banned the university from receiving $2.2 billion in federal funding.

Justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz characterized the suit as being a huge test of the administration's powers over U.S. academic institutions. ...