Harvard University President Alan Garber sent a letter to the Secretary of Education McMahon on Monday, criticizing the Trump administration’s actions against the School against the Trump, noting that the two groups share “common ground” on a number of questions.
“We share common ground on a number of critical questions, including the importance of ending anti -Semitism and other fanatisms on campus,” said Garber. “Like you, I believe that Harvard must promote an academic environment that encourages freedom of thought and expression, and that we must adopt a multiplicity of points of view rather than focus our attention on narrow orthodoxies.”
However, Harvard’s objectives are undermined and threatened “by the overtaking of the federal government in the constitutional freedoms of private universities and its continuous contempt for Harvard respect with the law,” said Garber.
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The president of Harvard University, Alan Garber, is addressed to the crowd during the 373rd beginning at Harvard University. ((Photo by Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe via Getty Images)))
“In accordance with the law and with our own values, we continue to continue the necessary reforms, by consulting in consultation our stakeholders and always in accordance with the law,” he wrote. “But Harvard will not renounce his central principles and legally protected for fear of reprisals not founded by the federal government.”
Garber’s remarks are in response to a scathing letter last week from McMahon saying to the university that he will no longer be eligible for federal subsidies on his management of anti -Semitism on the campus.
“Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right,” she wrote. “However, instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard engages in a systemic scheme of violation of federal law. Where many of these” students “come from, who are they, how do they enter Harvard, or even in our country-and why is there so much hatred?”
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The secretary of the Ministry of Education, Linda McMahon, sent a scathing letter to the president of the University of Harvard, Alan Garber, advising him not to ask for federal subsidies because they will not be provided. (Getty Images)
“These are questions that we must answer, among many others, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give simple answers to the American public?” She added.
The Trump administration froze $ 2.2 billion in university funding and threatened to revoke its tax exemption status.
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In his letter, Garber has listed some of the actions that Harvard has taken to solve the problems on the campus, in particular the installation of new deans and the clarification of the structures and procedures for the school’s discipline. He noted that Harvard, like many universities, has work to do to promote intellectual diversity on the campus.
Garber has also rejected McMahon’s claims that Harvard is a “partisan” institution.
The Trump administration has announced that it was frozen more than $ 2 billion in grants and contracts after Harvard University said it would not comply with federal demands for anti -Semitism. (Reuters / Nicholas Pfosi)
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“I have to refute your assertion that Harvard is a partisan institution. It is neither republican nor democratic,” he wrote. “It is not an arm or another political party.
