Brooke Hauser

5 days ago | statnews.com | Brooke Hauser

What would Harvard University be without the money the federal government has provided over decades to underwrite its vast research initiatives? That’s the existential, $9 billion question facing the Harvard community after the Trump administration’s most recent threat in its confrontation with the university: Harvard will not receive any new federal research grants unless and until it complies with White House demands.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser

What would Harvard University be without the money the federal government has provided over decades to underwrite its vast research initiatives? That’s the existential, $9 billion question facing the Harvard community after the Trump administration’s most recent threat in its confrontation with the university: Harvard will not receive any new federal research grants unless and until it complies with White House demands.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser

Both reports also task Harvard with taking action. Among the recommendations: expanding academic offerings on antisemitism, Jewish history and culture, as well as course offerings on Palestinian Studies and Arabic language and cultures; and providing training and resources, including legal support, to fight doxxing. Here are five takeaways from the reports. Both groups found the administration failed to protect students. Both spoke of living amid a climate of fear on campus and online.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Brooke Hauser

A task force on antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias urged the school to expand academic offerings related to antisemitism and Jewish history and to train students to more constructively debate and disagree with each other. The task force on anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias asked Harvard to provide legal and technical support to students who have been outed online as pro-Palestinian and faced harassment.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Samantha Gross

At first it was just a handful of students with some connection to pro-Palestinian activity, then dozens more, many of whom had no connection to the protest movement. Now the Trump administration has abruptly terminated the legal status of nearly 5,000 international students and scholars across the country, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, setting off waves of fear on campuses around the country.