Trump says Harvard to pay $500 million in deal with administration

President Donald Trump said connected Tuesday that his medication had reached a woody with Harvard University aft months of negotiations and that the Ivy League schoolhouse volition wage $500 million.

"Linda is finishing up the last details," Trump told reporters astatine an lawsuit successful the Oval Office, referring to Education Secretary Linda McMahon. "And they'll beryllium paying astir $500 cardinal and they'll beryllium operating commercialized schools. They're going to beryllium teaching radical however to bash AI and tons of different things, engines, tons of things."

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard had nary contiguous remark connected Trump's remarks.

The Trump medication has threatened schools, universities and colleges with the withholding of national funds implicit issues including pro-Palestinian protests against U.S. state Israel's warfare successful Gaza, clime initiatives, transgender policies, and diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

Rights advocates person raised escaped speech, privateness and world state concerns implicit the Trump administration's probes into universities.

Trump has said that universities specified arsenic Harvard allowed displays of antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests.

Protesters, including immoderate Jewish groups, accidental the authorities wrongly equates disapproval of Israel's battle connected Gaza and its concern of Palestinian territories with antisemitism, and advocacy for Palestinian rights with enactment for extremism. The authorities has not announced probes into Islamophobia.

Harvard task forces said successful precocious April that the school's Jewish and Muslim students faced bigotry and maltreatment during the people of Israel's warfare successful Gaza.

Three different Ivy League schools person made deals with the administration, including Columbia University, which successful July agreed to wage $220 cardinal to reconstruct national probe wealth that had been denied due to the fact that of allegations the assemblage allowed antisemitism to fester connected campus.

As with Columbia, the Trump medication took actions against Harvard related to the pro-Palestinian protestation question that roiled its campus. It moved to terminate much than $2 cardinal successful probe assistance backing to the university.

The administration's determination to cancel grants was 1 of galore actions it has taken against Harvard. It has besides sought to barroom planetary students from attending the school, threatened Harvard's accreditation status, and opened the doorway to cutting disconnected much funds by uncovering it violated national civilian rights law.

Harvard President Alan Garber has said that the assorted national actions since Trump returned to bureau successful January could portion the schoolhouse of astir $1 cardinal annually, forcing it to laic disconnected unit and frost hiring.

Harvard challenged immoderate of those actions successful court, arguing the Trump medication was retaliating against it successful usurpation of its free-speech rights aft it refused to conscionable officials' demands that it overhaul its governance, hiring and world programs to align with their ideological agenda.

Its 2 lawsuits were assigned to U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, a Boston-based appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama who blocked the medication from closing the doorway to planetary students and connected Sept. 3 barred it from continuing to chopped disconnected Harvard's probe funding.

But the medication successful the days since the ruling has continued to escalate its combat with Harvard. A time earlier the colony was announced, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that it would commencement a process that could pb to the schoolhouse being barred from contracts with each authorities agencies oregon receiving funding.