2d ago

Trump administration freezes more than $2.2 billion after Harvard rejects its demands

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The Trump administration responded quickly to Harvard University's defiance on Monday, freezing more than $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and contracts after the university rejected demands that it change hiring, admissions and other policies.

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The message I got from Harvard today sits in refreshingly stark contrast to the one I got from Columbia a few weeks ago. I opened it dreading what HU was going to say, and I'm pleasantly surprised. The school has many things it needs to work on, and I'll take a good news like this when I can. Where do we go from here?
- We need more companies and colleges to defy orders. I doubt any other schools can afford to. I think there are plenty of companies that "could" until an impossible tariff is put on them.
  
  Of course plenty of other universities can afford to do it. It's the research heavy universities that can't afford it right now, but that might mean that they should cut a bunch of their research divisions. Tuition dollars are not affected by these types of legal shenanigans.
  
  low-prestigious definitely cant afford it, our state schools is so desperate for students, they even give an easier bump to hs to get admitted to 4-year university now.
- Torches and pitchforks.
- Is this blocking of funds going to impact HU significantly or do they have a large fund.
  Also, what do you study there?
  
  I'm sure it will have an impact. I appreciate that their update wasn't bundled along with a request for donations. One step better than the Democratic party lol.
  I went to Harvard Business School. This was en email they sent to all alumni across the university.
  
  Nice.
  Does Harvard set up for life as well as I assume or are there people that go and don’t succeed?
  
  I am well connected in he Harvard community. Harvard isn’t some magical ticket to wealth.
  
  No I doubt it is. I assume that the vast majority of people that go already have wealth.
- Where do we go from here?
  To court presumably.

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