Harvard University loses another US$60 million in grants

The United States Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday 19 May that it was terminating US$60 million in federal grants to Harvard University, saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus, reports Reuters.

US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly US$3 billion in recent weeks.

Since taking office in January, the Republican president has sought to use federal research funding to overhaul US academia, which he says has been gripped by anti-American, Marxist and “radical left” ideologies. The administration has accused Harvard of continuing to consider ethnicity when reviewing student applications and of allowing discrimination against Jews as a result of the pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled American campuses last year.
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