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Gruenbaum’s letter alleges that Harvard has continued to “engage in race discrimination, including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life” and says that the government is “aware of recent events at Harvard University involving anti-Semitic action that suggest the institution has a disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students.”
Gruenbaum also referred to alleged discrimination at the prestigious Harvard Law Review. A federal task force recently called out the Harvard Law Review’s award of a $65,000 fellowship to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus, a decision that the government claims was “reviewed and approved” by a faculty committee.
The administration has said that Harvard should ensure more diverse viewpoints on a campus that it says leans too liberal. Harvard sued in April.
Harvard President Alan Garber has apologized for Harvard’s handling of antisemitism on campus and acknowledged that he has experienced prejudice himself at the school. But he has also said the extent of the government’s demands show that “the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism.”
Garber called the administration’s actions “perplexing” in an interview published by NPR early Tuesday, questioning the need to cut off research funding.
“Shutting off that work does not help the country, even as it punishes Harvard, and it is hard to see the link between that and, say, antisemitism,” he said.
The government has also moved to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but the university won a temporary court order blocking the government from enforcing that ban.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said last week that Harvard’s responses to the government’s requests to provide information about misconduct by foreign students were insufficient.
To regain its program certification, Harvard was given 72 hours to provide six categories of information about foreign students over the past five years, including disciplinary records and video of those engaged in protests. Harvard still hasn’t turned over the requested information.
Trump on Monday threatened to also divert billions in grant dollars away from the university.
“I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump said in a post on social media. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”
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