The Harvard Group of the American Association for Universities Teachers (AAUP), along with the National Organization, filed a lawsuit against the changes required by the Trump administration, while the government reviews nearly $ 9 billion of federal funding.
The procedure was submitted on Friday (11) in conjunction with a request from teachers with an immediate temporary standard to prevent Trump administration Reducing federal financing for Harvard UniversityAccording to the documents.
The university received a letter from a federal workplace in early April, which was identified by approximately 9 billion dollars of political demands in federal financing, as confirmed by a spokesman CNN. Among the demands described in the letter is the elimination of diversity, fairness and inclusion programs at Harvard University and the ban on campus protests, they reported Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, and other vehicles.
The review is the latest effort from a federal work team to combat anti -Semitism on the university campus after a number of cases throughout the country in response to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The operation says: “This issue includes an unprecedented threat to the Trump administration to keep about nine billion dollars of federal funding from one of the main universities in our nation, unless the changes that offer university independence and the rights to the freedom of its teachers and students are accepted.”
The procedure also claims that the Trump administration’s actions violate the first amendment and the sixth bank of the Civil Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination in federal assistance programs based on national race, color, or origin, according to federal law.
The requirements in the administration’s speech also include “total cooperation” with the Ministry of Interior, which applies immigration policy and federal organizers to ensure “complete compliance”, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Crimson.
The letter was received days after the announcement of education, health, humanitarian services and American public services administration that it declined 8.7 billion dollars of subsidies and more than $ 255 million in contracts between Harvard University and its affiliated companies and the federal government, according to a press statement.
The operation says: “Executive employees cannot force a private university to suppress the academy and expression,” to take advantage of the extensive financial power of the federal government to put an effective weapon at the head of a private institution. “
The process states that canceling federal financing “imminent”, noting how to already reduce the Trump administration Federal financing for other higher education institutions, such as the University of ColombiaThat was lowering 400 million dollars. Since then, Colombia has announced wide changes in its policies at the end of March, in a clear concession to the Trump administration.
The teachers who filed the lawsuit said that the federal government stated that the programs and departments of a correct number “must change their curricula and their research agenda to change towards the government’s favorite and ideological viewpoint, and those who violate it must be closed.”
The complaint against the Trump administration’s review says that their actions have already caused seriously unlegravated damage to boycotting academic research and investigation at Harvard University, including areas that do not have a relationship with accusations of anti -Semitism or other civil rights violations. “
Days before the announcement of the review, he sent nearly 800 faculty members at Harvard University a message to the Harvard Foundation and the Supervision Council asking the school to resist Trump administration demands and publicly condemn its attacks on the universities of the country.
After Harvard received the notification of the review last week, President Alan Garper said that if the financing is canceled, this will lead to “boycotting research that saves lives, endangers scientific research and important innovation at risk.”
“The first amendment does not allow government officials to use their position of position to silence critics and suppress speeches they do not like,” said Andrew Manuel Crespo, a law professor at Harvard University and General Adviser at AAUP-RARVARD College.
“Harvard University teachers have the constitutional right to speak and teach and conduct research without fear that the government will discuss its views to cancel the subsidies,” Crespo said.
