Harvard battle 3

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Dated April 11, 2025, a particular letter was sent to Harvard from the government. It says that the U.S. has invested in that university because of its value to the country, but that investment is no longer justified since they haven't lived up to intellectual and civil rights conditions. 

A sum of $2.2 billion in federal government grants was withdrawn as a penalty for defying the government's letter.

 

 

Still defiant, the university (photo) filed a suit against the government for freezing those funds, claiming that important research programs will suffer. (With a mammoth endowment fund of $53 billion, the largest of any education institution in the world, some are wondering just how big a hardship losing $2 billion can be.)

Responding to the suit, a White House spokesman said: “The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enriches their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families, is coming to an end. Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.”

(cont'd tomorrow)