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Across Harvard's campus, some students and faculty members expressed frustration and fears about the Trump administration's threat to cut off billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts sent t...
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In the days leading up to the Trump administration’s announcement, faculty members called on the university instead to more forcefully defend itself and higher education more broadly.
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The U.S. Department of Education announced the Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism has launched an investigation into potential anti-Semitism on Harvard's campus.
President Trump has ramped up his attacks on the universities and students that he says have abided by growing antisemitism on campus. And that has some Jewish students and professors feeling uneasy.
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
Last summer, the Harvard School of Public Health launched an internal review into the partnership, which was between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB) and Birzeit, and decided to pause the program. The review committee will release a final report in the coming weeks.
Yale and Harvard removed employees from their posts as the Trump administration pressures universities to combat antisemitism on campus or lose federal funding.