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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.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
CAMBRIDGE — In an interview with the Globe, Harvard president Alan Garber cast doubt on the motives behind the White House’s campaign against his university, which is being carried out with the stated intent of combating antisemitism. ”Attacking our research enterprise in the name of attacking antisemitism really gives rise to skepticism about what the goal is here,” he said.
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2 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Mike Damiano
But many Jewish students at Harvard, including those concerned about antisemitism on elite campuses, say this political narrative distorts their experiences. Interviews with more than a dozen Jewish students and recent graduates, and half a dozen Harvard alumni, faculty, and staff, found that many felt the climate has shifted significantly since the height of the Gaza war protests a year ago.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns |Diti Kohli |Jenna Reyes
The Trump administration and Harvard are locked in an extraordinary showdown over campus oversight and federal funding, and we know there are questions about what’s happened so far, what exactly it means, and what might come next. Our team of higher education reporters is here to help.
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3 weeks ago | 
statnews.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging that the government’s campaign to alter the school’s policies while cutting off research funding is unconstitutional. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston, the university’s lawyers argued that the government’s “attempt to coerce and control Harvard” violates First Amendment protections of academic freedom.
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3 weeks ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging that the government’s campaign to alter the school’s policies while cutting off research funding is unconstitutional. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston, the university’s lawyers argued that the government’s “attempt to coerce and control Harvard” violates First Amendment protections of academic freedom.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Mike Damiano
While the Harvard community anxiously awaits the school’s response to demands from the Trump administration, the heads of several other elite universities are emerging as leaders of a burgeoning resistance to the president’s attacks on higher education. For now, most of that resistance has come in the form of public comments rather than in a direct confrontation with the administration, such as refusing to implement changes or face the loss of federal funding.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Liz Kowalczyk
When the Trump administration announced a review of $9 billion of federal funding for Harvard and its affiliated institutions this week, it did not specify which research projects might be targeted. It lists more than $255 million of contracts included in the review, most of them for health and medicine research projects. One contract with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is worth nearly $60 million and provides funding for research on tuberculosis at 14 labs across the country.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
The Trump administration’s antisemitism task force sent Harvard University a list of demands Thursday detailing actions the school must take to avoid the cancelation of billions of dollars of federal funding, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Globe and a federal government official familiar with the matter.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Chris Serres |Liz Kowalczyk |Jonathan Saltzman |Mike Damiano |Neena Hagen
The review includes $255.6 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments, according to the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force. According to current and former administrators at Harvard and affiliated institutions, as well as members of the Trump task force, the review appears to encompass all active federal research grants and contracts to Harvard and its affiliates.
