#harvard

Update. After #Harvard said 𝙣𝙤 to the #Trump admin …
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/

… and took the further step of suing the Trump admin …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/

… and after independent lawyers and law professors said its lawsuit was strong …
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/23/legal-analysis-harvard-trump-lawsuit/

… and after its strong stance stirred student, faculty, staff, alumni, and donor enthusiasm …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/harvard-donors-trump.html

… some other donors, all wealthy, "implored the [university] to slow down and negotiate."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/harvard-trump-deal.html

#Academia #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Huh! I learned that Harvard Law School plans to release a guide this month about how to buy housing with chosen family!

https://www.boston.com/real-estate/spring-house-hunt/2025/04/11/non-traditional-homeownership-solutions-gaining-popularity/?amp=1

#TIL #housing #Harvard

Update. "#Harvard University sued the #Trump administration in federal court Monday…The lawsuit…seeks to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding 'as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard.' Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, said in a message to the university community Monday that the Trump administration’s actions are unlawful and beyond the government’s authority."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/

PS. Exactly. Every university subject to this kind of unlawful pressure should sue. Same for law firms.

#Academia #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Harvard University has sued to block U.S. President Donald Trump from freezing billions of dollars in federal funding after rejecting a list of White House demands that it said would undermine its independence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/22/world/politics/harvard-sues-trump-funding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #harvard #universities #us #republicans #donaldtrump

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#Harvard #USA #Unis4Mastodon #X #eXit #solidarity #SciComm #University

Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-funds-harvard-and-four-other-universities-can-t-tell-them
(#paywalled)

"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

So let's see: Some unknown person in the Trump administration sent an unauthorized letter to Harvard with a list of demands, then froze Harvard's funding without authorization, and made an unauthorized request to the IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status. Trump better catch whoever is doing all this quick.
#Trump #Harvard

New #Trump admin position on its letter to #Harvard: It was a mistake but we're standing by it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html

Trump : Harvard
:: Trump : Kilmar Abrego Garcia

#Academia #Trump #Universities
@academicchatter

Trump: "Harvard, obey me!"
Harvard: "No, and we have money and lawyers!"
Trump: "How'd that silly demand get sent to Harvard without authorization?"
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/19/nyt-reports-trump-letter-error/
#Trump #Harvard

This NYT article about how the #Trump Admin now tries to back out of their fight with #Harvard shows two items:

1) The letter was already written. They would have sent it anyway:

'the letter was supposed to be sent at some point, just not on Friday when the dialogue between the two sides was still constructive, one of the people said.'

2) There is no regret:

'And despite claiming that the letter should not have been sent, the Trump administration did not withdraw it.'

@mattblaze

“Harvard didn’t blink. The fight starts here,” writes @Daojoan for her Index newsletter. “[It] did not act quickly. But it acted clearly. That clarity must be contagious. Because unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom,” she writes. “The government has already decided it can control the curriculum by controlling the cash. What happens next is not up to them. It's up to everyone else.”

https://www.theindex.media/harvard-didnt-blink-the-fight-starts-here/

#Education #HigherEducation #University #Harvard #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

4/15

@arstechnica

#Harvard is about to bury the #DoJ under miles & miles of paper.

They should start revoking the #degrees held by any #fascist lawmakers that graduated there.

If #Columbia can do it, why not?

#noquarterforfascists

Robert Hubbell’s Today’s Edition Newsletter on institutions finally finding their spines, and not a moment too soon — plus a roundup of other important news. My daily go-to along with #HeatherCoxRichardson, #SimonRosenberf @jesscraven101’s Chop Wood, Carry Water.

The center begins to hold.

#USpol #Harvard #California #Tariffs

https://open.substack.com/pub/roberthubbell/p/the-center-begins-to-hold

#IRS making plans to rescind #Harvard’s tax-exempt status after the university refusal of #Trump admin demands for control over course contents, admissions, etc.

“Law professor Sam Brunson noted on Bluesky that this is illegal.

“In 1998, Congress explicitly provided that the President could not, directly or indirectly, request that the IRS start or end an audit or other investigation of a taxpayer.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/irs-harvard-tax-exempt-status/index.html

They also have a newsletter you might like:

#harvard #dei #diversity

https://mailchi.mp/harvard/edib-subscribe

This is the #Harvard #DEI page and they deserve our support.

Please click and boost.

#diversity

https://www.harvard.edu/about/diversity-and-inclusion/

The Harvard RoboBee lands on a plant leaf.

#harvard #robobee #robotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIuBagiw17U

#IRS Is Actually Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt Status — Cuz #USA Is An #Autocracy Now

The move would be a major violation of the law upon orders from the #Trump admin as it attempts to choke off federal money & support for #research & #academia in US #universities.

[Jiminy Cricket am I editorializing & cursing in print more & more now that muther f⁕er is in office!]

#law #AntiIntellectualism #RevengePolitics #extortion #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-irs-harvard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=45189BD7-601D-485A-8FE9-6A8489FF334F

#TaxExempt status is available to charitable, religious & #educational orgs, as well as social welfare groups. But the organizations must strictly adhere to tax laws that prohibit them from engaging in certain political activity. There is NO proof that #Harvard violated any of those guardrails.

“The #IRS is supposed to administer the tax rules impartially, not pursue political #vendettas against exempt organizations,”said Steve Rosenthal, who served as snr fellow at the #TaxPolicy Center.

#law

100% ILLEGAL

WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?

#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status

The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”

#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/