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Harvard University President Alan Garber connected Monday sent a missive to Education Secretary Linda McMahon criticizing the Trump administration's actions against the schoolhouse portion noting some groups stock "common ground" connected a fig of issues.
"We stock communal crushed connected a fig of captious issues, including the value of ending antisemitism and different bigotry connected campus," Garber said. "Like you, I judge that Harvard indispensable foster an world situation that encourages state of thought and expression, and that we should clasp a multiplicity of viewpoints alternatively than focusing our attraction connected constrictive orthodoxies."
However, Harvard's goals are undermined and threatened "by the national government’s overreach into the law freedoms of backstage universities and its continuing disregard of Harvard’s compliance with the law," Garber said.
President of Harvard University Alan Garber addresses the assemblage during the 373rd Commencement astatine Harvard University. ((Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images))
"Consistent with the instrumentality and with our ain values, we proceed to prosecute needed reforms, doing truthful successful consultation with our stakeholders and ever successful compliance with the law," helium wrote. "But Harvard volition not surrender its core, legally-protected principles retired of fearfulness of unfounded retaliation by the national government."
Garber's remarks are successful effect to a scathing missive past week from McMahon telling the assemblage that it volition nary longer beryllium eligible for national grants implicit its handling of antisemitism connected campus.
"Receiving specified payer funds is simply a privilege, not a right," she wrote. "Yet alternatively of utilizing these funds to beforehand the acquisition of its students, Harvard is engaging successful a systemic signifier of violating national law. Where bash galore of these ‘students’ travel from, who are they, however bash they get into Harvard, oregon adjacent into our state – and wherefore is determination truthful overmuch HATE?"
Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a scathing missive to Harvard University President Alan Garber, advising him to not use for national grants due to the fact that they volition not beryllium provided. (Getty Images)
"These are questions that indispensable beryllium answered, among galore more, but the biggest question of each is, wherefore volition Harvard not springiness straightforward answers to the American public?" she added.
The Trump medication has frozen $2.2 cardinal successful backing to the assemblage and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status.
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In his letter, Garber listed immoderate of the actions Harvard has taken to code issues connected campus, including installing caller deans and clarifying the school's subject structures and procedures. He noted that Harvard, similar galore universities, has enactment to bash to foster intelligence diverseness connected campus.
Garber besides pushed backmost connected McMahon's claims that Harvard is simply a "partisan" institution.
The Trump medication announced it was freezing implicit $2 cardinal successful grants and contracts aft Harvard University said it would not comply with national demands regarding antisemitism. (Reuters/Nicholas Pfosi)
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"I indispensable refute your assertion that Harvard is simply a partisan institution. It is neither Republican nor Democratic," helium wrote. "It is not an limb of immoderate different governmental enactment oregon movement. Nor volition it ever be. Harvard is simply a spot to bring radical of each backgrounds unneurotic to larn successful an inclusive situation wherever ideas flourish careless of whether they are deemed 'conservative,' ‘liberal,’ oregon thing else, a spot wherever assumptions and claims are tested and challenged, respectfully and thoughtfully, successful pursuit of cognition and truth."
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