Mike Damiano

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns

But Harvard has already undertaken many similar actions during its response to allegations of antisemitism on campus in the 15 months since former Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned.