Ask the educational centers to eliminate diversity, equality and inclusion programs, as well as access to those who ‘are more involved in activism than in teaching’. Moreover, federal funds to Harvard and Columbia are already frozen before refusing before their claims.
The government of Donald Trump has universities to the Protests against the massacre in GazaThat systematically shouts anti -semites The presence of left -wing Jewish groups was common-, as well as for their consolidated policy for decades of ‘positive discrimination’ to introduce their fields to racial minorities according to Criteria ofi (diversity, equity, inclusion).
Among these requests from the new American administration is eliminating diversity, equality and inclusion programs, Changes in the contract and admission policyAs well as access to those who “are most involved in activism than in teaching”, in clear allusion to Massive protests That they have been registered in dozens of universities against the Massacre La Strip since 2024.
The White House claims that these centers are not doing enough to stop An alleged wave of anti -semitism on campus. Trump is already retired 400 million of federal funds to the Columbia University And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that the visa for foreign students who participated in these mobilizations would withdraw the visa.
Last week was the prestigious university of Harvard The person who received a letter with a series of changes to “maintain the economic relationship” with the federal government.
The president of Harvard University, Alan M. GarberHe said that “no government, regardless of the party, should dictate what private universities can teach, who can admit and hire, and which areas of study and research can follow.” He also said that the institution was already working on various initiatives to combat anti -semitism.
Garber said that the end of anti -Semitism “will not be achieved by power declarations, apart from the law, to control education and learning in Harvard and to dictate how” they work. “The work of tackling our shortcomings, fulfilling our obligations and the embodying of our values corresponds to us to define and undertake it as a community,” he added.
After Garber’s answer, Trump administration announced the freezing of 2200 million of dollars in multiannual subsidies and 60 million From dollars in multi -year contracts for Harvard.
He ‘Joint working group to combat anti -semitism’Created after the return of Trump to the US presidency, he reported this measure through a statement in which he ensured that the statement by Harvard “strengthens the worrying mentality of Privilege, endemically in the most prestigious universities and colleges of our country: those federal investments do not hold the responsibility to the citizen rights lawnings.”
He also believed that “the interruption of learning that the campus has hit in recent years is unacceptable” and that “intimidation of Jewish students is unbearable”. “It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and promise to make significant changes if they want to continue to receive the support of taxpayers,” he said.
Trump has raised The possibility that Harvard University will stop being exempt from paying taxes And start to do it as a “political entity” if it has no access to your claims. “Should Harvard perhaps lose your tax exemption status and are taxed as a political entity if it continues to promote a ‘disease’ inspired by politics, ideology and terrorism?” He has wondered in truth social. “Remember that the status of tax exemption is completely dependent on acting in favor of the public interest!” He remembered.
On the contrary, the former president of the United States Barack Obama (2009-2017) was released to defend Harvard University in its pulse with the administration of Donald Trump. For Obama, Harvard has ‘given an example for other higher educational institutions: rejecting awkward and illegal attempts to suppress academic freedom’, and instead gave the students ‘an environment of intellectual curiosity, rigorous debate and mutual respect’.
And he concludes: “Hopefully other institutions follow their example”, a barely veiled allusion at other universities also threatened with the withdrawal of federal funds and that in some striking things such as the University of Columbia in New York they have accepted a much more complure attitude with the requirements of the Trump government.
Source: EITB
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