Harvard University has announced that it will allocate $ 250 million of its own funds to support the broad -free research projects of the Trump administration on federal funding.The move comes as an Ivy League Institution, with a settlement of $ 53 billion, the wealthiest university in the United States, mainly causes more than $ 2.6 billion in government grants in medical science.The administration of President Donald Trump has intensified its campaign against elite universities, accusing them of failing to maintain diversity of “radical left” ideologies, discrimination and attitude. Harvard, in particular, has been a central goal, facing demands to overhall his rule, entry and opposition policies. After the university refused to follow the demands of the White House, the administration suspended significant research funding, with the latest cuts at the end of $ 450 million in total.President Alan Garber described Cuts as a threat to academic freedom, stating that important, life -saving research has been stopped and years of years are lost. In a message to the Harvard community, Garber confirmed that the school would recur $ 250 million as a stopgap to maintain major research initiatives, but further warned of difficult financial decisions. He also announced that he would cut voluntary 25% pay in the upcoming financial year.The funding crisis has forced other major institutions to take equal steps. The University of Johns Hopkins has begun to offer grants to the faculty affected by funding disruption, while Northwestern University is covering the cost for stalled projects by government instructions. Another target of the administration’s campaign Columbia University has announced a trimming of about 180 employees after $ 400 million in federal cuts.Harvard is currently sueing the Trump administration, claiming that the funding freeze is an unconstitutional attempt to pressurize the university to compliance. A federal judge has ordered the government to reply by 9 June, with a hearing on 21 July.Meanwhile, more than 50 higher education groups have issued a joint statement condemning administration functions, warning that the research grant is “hostage for political reasons”, threatening the entire scientific enterprise. Harvard says that its entry and work practices follow the federal law and keep rejecting the allegations of antismitism in their premises. The university has also pushed back against investigation into its diversity efforts, stating that no ideological or racial quota is used in recruitment or scholarship awards.
