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Audit approach of ‘Student Body, Faculty, Staff’: Trump Administration’s list of demands to Harvard University before freezing $ 2.2BN funding
Trump administration on Monday in multiaier grant from $ 2.2 billion Harvard University, with a contract of $ 60 million, after university Refused to follow a series of policy changes proposed by the US President.
This action follows a letter from the government for the Ivian League Institution, stating that Harvard “in recent years, both intellectual and civil rights terms have failed to live the terms that justify federal investment” and that it should improve meaningful governance. “
“The United States has invested in the operation of Harvard University because due to the country’s value of discovery and educational excellence. But an investment is not an eligibility,” read in the letter.
“It depends on maintaining the laws of Harvard Federal Civil Rights, and it only makes sense when Harvard promotes an environment that creates intellectual creativity and rigor of scholars, both opposed to ideological occupation,” said this.
Major demands from Trump administration
- The university should immediately discontinue all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices, committees, posts and initiatives, whatever name, and stops all DI-based policies, including DE-based disciplinary or speech control policies, whatever name; It shows that it has done so for the satisfaction of the federal government; And reflects the satisfaction of the federal government that these reforms are sustainable and effective through structural and personnel changes. By August 2025, the university must submit a report to the government – certified for accuracy – which confirms these reforms.
- The university should adopt and implement the merit-based recruitment policies, and should stop all preferences on the basis of breed, color, religion, sex, or national origin during the faculty, staff and leadership, hiring, color, propagation, compensation and related practices. Such adoption and implementation must be durable and displayed through structural and personnel changes. All existing and possible faculty reviews will be continuously implemented for literary theft and Harvard’s literary policy. All hiring and related data will be shared with the federal government and will be subjected to a comprehensive audit by the federal government during that period, in which the reforms are being implemented, which will be at least by the end of 2028.
- The university must adopt and implement merit-based entry policies and shut down all preferences on race, color, national original, or screen base in each of its professional schools and other programs. Such adoption and implementation must be durable and displayed through structural and personnel changes. All entry data will be shared with the federal government and will be subjected to a comprehensive audit by the federal government-and statistical information about non-individual, admission will be made available to the public, including information about rejected and recruited students, which can be performed at least, which can be performed at least. Every program or school should sign a public statement after each entrance cycle that certifies these rules have been retained
- The university should declare his recruitment, screening and entry of international students to prevent hostile students from accepting hostile students from American constitution and freedom, the declaration of US values and institutions involving students of terrorism or anti-Jewish. Harvard will immediately report to the federal officials, including the Homeland Security and the State Department, any foreign student, on the visa and with a green card, which violate the conduct. As above, these reforms should be durable and should be displayed through structural and personnel changes; Widespread in all programs of Harvard; And, during the reform period, the audit was shared with the federal government, shared with the public on a non-individual basis, and certified by the dean of the entry.
- By August 2025,
University will commission An external party, which will satisfy the federal government as its ability and goodwill, to lead to the diversity of lead to student bodies, faculties, employees and approaches, such as every department, area, or teaching unit must have a varied approach individually. This audit will not start later compared to the summer of 2025 and will proceed as a department-department, area-by-field, or teaching-by-tax-tax-education. The external party report will not be submitted to the university leadership and the federal government later compared to the end of 2025. Harvard must eliminate all criteria, preferences and practices, whether it is mandatory or alternative, the practices of entire entry and work, worker litmus tests as that work. Every department or area found for the lack of approach should be lacked by hiring a significant mass of new faculty within the department or region that will provide variety of views; Each teaching unit found for the lack of approach should be improved by accepting an important mass of students that will provide variety. If the review finds that the existing faculty approaches in the concerned department or field are not able to hire for diversity, or that the relevant teaching unit is not able to accept a significant mass of students with various approaches, then recruitment or admission within that department, area, or teaching unit will be transferred to the nearest cognitive department, area, or teaching unit. This will be audited and the same steps taken to establish the approach variety while implementing reforms during each year will be taken, which will be at least by the end of 2028. - The university will commission an external party, which will satisfy the federal government as its ability and good belief, to audit the programs and departments that reflect most fuel antisemitic oppression or ideological occupation.
- Harvard should immediately improve its student discipline policies and processes to implement its existing disciplinary policies rapidly and transparently with stability and fairness, and without dual standards based on identity or ideology. Where those policies are insufficient to prevent the disintegration of scholarships, classroom learning and teaching, or other aspects of the general campus, Harvard must develop and implement adequate disciplinary policies to prevent those disruption. This includes but not limited to the following
- The discipline in Harvard should include immediate intervention and disintegration or determination or preventing, in which the Harvard is required to prevent a disruption or decline by the police; Strong enforcement and restoration of rules of current time, location and manner in the campus, ordering the Harvard police involves ordering that when necessary, to prevent incidents that violate the rules of time, location and manner; A disciplinary process is placed in a body which is accountable to the Chairman of Harvard or other Capstone Officer; And removing or improving institutional bodies and practices that delay and obstruct enforcement including relevant administrative boards and FAS Faculty Council.
- Harvard must adopt a new policy on student groups or clubs, which forbids recognition and funding of recognition or habitat for any student group or club, which supports or promotes criminal activity, illegal violence, or illegal harassment; Invites non-students in the premises who regularly violate the rules of the premises; Or a student acts as a front for the club that has been banned from the campus. Leaders or organizers of recognized and unfamiliar student groups violating these policies should be held accountable as student discipline and disqualified as officers in other recognized student organizations. In the future, the funding decision for student groups or clubs should be accountable to the leadership of a senior university, especially by a body of the university faculty. In particular, Harvard should end the support and recognition of student groups or clubs, which have been engaged in anti-Jewish activity since October 7, 2023, including Harvard Palestine solidarity committee, Harvard graduate students 4 Palestine, Law Students 4 Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine, Students for Justice, and National Lawy Lawy Guild, and National Lawyer Guild, and disciplines and disciplines and disciplines and disciplines and disciplines and disciplines and disciplines.
- Harvard should apply a comprehensive mask restriction with severe and immediate punishment for violations, not less than suspension.
- Harvard should examine meaningful discipline for all violations occurring during 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years, including the Harvard Business School protests of October 2023,
University hall Sit-in of November 2023, and Spring Encampment of 2024. It will have to permanently expel the students involved in the attack of the students of Israeli Harvard Business School on 18 October, and the students involved in capturing university buildings have to be suspended, as is warrant of facts in personal matters. - Harvard president and police chief should publicly clarify that Harvard University Police Department will implement the rules and laws of the university. Harvard should also be committed to cooperating with law enforcement in good faith
- The university should immediately establish such procedures, through which any Harvard affiliated university leadership and federal government can report non -non -approval with detailed reforms in this letter. Any such reporter will be fully protected from any adverse action for SO reporting.
- The university will make organizational changes to ensure complete transparency and cooperation with all federal regulators. From June 30, 2025, and then during every quarter during the period in which the reforms are being implemented, which will be at least by the end of 2028, the university will submit a report to the federal government – certified for accuracy – that the progress of its progress on the implementation of the reforms given in this letter. The university should also, for the satisfaction of the federal government, should reveal the source and purpose of all foreign funds; Cooperate with the federal government in a forensic audit of foreign funding sources and uses, in which Harvard, its agents and, to the limit, how the money was used by the third party working in the premises of Harvard; Report all requested immigration and related information to the United States Homeland Security Department; And follow all the requirements related to the sevis system.
After the letter, the university said in a detailed letter, the administration released an update and extended list of demands, warning that if we intend to “intend to maintain, we should follow Harvard. [our] Financial relations with the federal government. ,
Some of these demands aim to compete with antismitism, but to regulate “intellectual situations” in most Harvard, the university said.
