Trump Administration Freezes $2.2 Billion In Grants To Harvard Over Campus Activism

CAMBRIDGE, MA – OCTOBER 10: Students pass in front of Harvard’s Widener Library on October 10, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by William B. Plowman/Getty Images)

BOSTON (AP) — The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University. The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism. The list at Harvard was updated Friday, and includes government and leadership reforms, as well as a requirement to institute what it calls a “merit-based” admissions and hiring policy. It also includes an audit of the study body and faculty on their views about diversity, as well as a ban on face masks which appeared to target pro-Palestinian protesters.