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The Trump administration alerted Harvard University on Monday that its federal funding will continue to be at risk after an investigation determined that the institution violated civil rights law, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller.
In a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber, the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services alleged that the institution had been “in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others has been a willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff.” The administration warned that if the university fails to make adequate changes, they will lose all federal financial resources, according to the document.
“Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies—where individuals are sorted and judged according to their membership in an oppressed group identity and not individual merit—has enabled anti-Semitism to fester on Harvard’s campus and has led a once great institution to humiliation, offering remedial math and forcing Jewish students to hide their identities and ancestral stories,” the letter reads.
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During its investigation, the administration found that a majority of Jewish students felt “negative bias or discrimination on campus, while a quarter felt physically unsafe,” the letter reads. Some students hid their Jewish identity to avoid being “ostracized,” according to the administration.
“The heart of campus was overrun by an impermissible, multiweek encampment that instilled fear in, and disrupted the studies of, Jewish and Israeli students,” the administration says of its investigation results. “Even worse, individuals who participated in the encampment received lax and inconsistent discipline—and as the discipline was reviewed by higher levels among the faculty, it was often downgraded.” --->READ MORE HERE
The Trump administration says Harvard University is in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act due to inaction to protect Jewish students, threatening more cuts to federal funding.
The federal Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism sent a letter to Harvard on Monday declaring the conclusion of a Title VI investigation found the school failed to combat antisemitism on campus.
In its examples, the government listed a majority of Jewish students reporting negative bias on campus and a quarter feeling unsafe, Jewish students who were assaulted and campus demonstrations that violated university policies, among other problems.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government. Harvard may of course continue to operate free of federal privileges, and perhaps such an opportunity will spur a commitment to excellence that will help Harvard thrive once again,” the letter states.
A spokesperson for the university said in a statement that “Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
+++++Harvard Violated Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds: White House threatens university with ‘loss of all federal financial resources’ (READ MORE HERE or HERE)+++++
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