Harvard University has filed a sweeping 51-page federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of unlawfully freezing $2 billion in research funding in retaliation for the university’s alleged failure to crack down on antisemitism. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, claims the government is abusing its authority to force ideological compliance from one…
In a bold and public rebuke, Harvard University has rejected sweeping demands from the Trump administration that threatened to withhold more than $9 billion in research funding. Harvard President Alan Garber, M.D., Ph.D., issued a strongly worded statement asserting that the university “will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” denouncing the administration’s…
Harvard University has taken disciplinary action against Germanic Languages and Literatures professor Eric Rentschler for violating sexual harassment policies. According to the The Harvard Crimson, the disciplinary action was announced by Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra in an internal email on Thursday. According to the email obtained by The Crimson, Rentschler has been placed on two-year…