Harvard Professors Are Sing the Trump Administration Over Its Review of About $ 9 Billion in Federal Funding for the University Following Pro-Palestine Protests, Calling The Move a “Gun To the Head.” In The Lawsuit, The Professors Argue that reviewing the Funding is discriminatory and Undermines Free Speech.
The Move Comes AS Donald Trump and his Administration Place Their Focus On College Campuses, Revoking Students' Visas and Firempting to Defund Universities Over Pro-Palestine Activism.
On Friday, to Judge Ruled That Columbia University Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil, A Legal Permanent Resident Who Helped Pro-Palestine Protests, Could Be Deported after Secretary of State Marco Rubio Declared That Khalil's present in The US Posign Policy Concens. Other Students Have Been Targeted as Well, Such As Rumeysa Ozturk, A Turkish Tufts Student WHO WAS GRABBED OFF THE STREET BY EGGRATION AND CUSTOMS INFORCEMENT. According to the Harvard CrimsonThree Harvard Students and Two Recent Graduates Have Had Their Student Visas Revoked, and Last Month, The Harvard Aau Sued the Trump Administration Over Arasts And Attamps To Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters.
The Trump Administration Has Canceled Funding For Columbia and Frozen Funding for Brown, Cornell, and Northwestern over What they call anti -Semitted on campuses.
In The New Lawsuit, The Harvard Chapter of the American Association of University Professors Said That the Review of the University's Funding Violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Which Prohibits Discrimination When it comes to Federal Assistance. The Trump Administration is Looking at about $ 9 Billion in Grant and $ 225 Million in Contracts.
“Threats like these are an existential 'gun to the head' for a university,” The Harvard Professors State in the Filing. “They overTTly seek to impose on Harvard University Political views and policy preferences Advanced by the Trump Administration and Committ The University to Punishing Dysphaavored Speech.”
The Group is Also Seeking at Temporary Restrooming Order.
“These Tactics Amount to Exploiting Title VI to Coece Universities Into Undermining Free Speech and Academic Inventory in Service of the Government's Political or Policy Preferences,” The Professors Wrote in the Lawsuit.
Earlier This Month, The Trump Administration Also Called On Harvard to End Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives and Ban Masks at Protests. The University has not provided an update on these issues.
Harvard Has Made Several Changes Around the Israel-Palestine Conflict. The University Suspend the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative; Suspended in Research Partnership with at University in the West Bank; and DismisseD Faculty Leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
“Eliminating discrimination and protecting all student is important,” Harvard Law School Professor Nikolas Bowie and Secretary-Treasurer of Harvard's Aau Said in a statement. “But Trump is deceive the Civil Rights Act, Terrest Students, and Illegally holding Hostage Grants for Hospitals and Scientific Research So HE Can Accomplish His Real Goal of Punishing Academics for Our Politics,” Bowie Said.
