Earlier this month, the Trump administration threatened to revoke $9 billion in federal grants and contracts if Harvard did not agree to a long list of demands, including screening foreign applicants 'hostile to the American values and institutions' and allowing an external body to audit university departments for viewpoint diversity. (How screening international students for their beliefs would contribute to viewpoint diversity was not specified.) Today, Harvard announced that it would not agree to the Trump administration's terms. 'Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,' the university's lawyers wrote in a letter to administration officials. 'Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government's terms as an agreement in principle.' When the Trump administration canceled $400 million in federal funding to Columbia'ostensibly because of the school's handling of campus anti-Semitism'it outlined a set of...
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