Trump adminration plans to make Harvard University ineligible for federal funding over ‘antisemitism’ on campus | World News
President Trump launched a campaign to bring changes at Harvard and other educational institutes leveraging federal funding. (File Photo)
US President Donald Trump’s adminration is escalating its fight with educational institutes, and is now expanding its campaign against Harvard University starting a process that could make the country’s oldest university ineligible for federal funding over the allegations of antisemitism on campus.
The Office for Civil Rights in the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) wrote a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday and said it is referring the university to a process called debarment and adminrative suspension, which could be a big blow to Harvard since it chose to stand against the demands of Trump adminration and can also put billions of dollars in jeopardy.
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The decision the HHS could disbar the Ivy League school from entering into contracts with all government agencies or receiving federal grants.
OCR is referring Harvard for suspension and debarment proceedings and notified it of an opportunity for an adminrative hearing. Harvard has failed to meaningfully address its deliberate indifference towards antisemitic student-on-student harassment. https://t.co/kDTcy6BjGV pic.twitter.com/FhnMiZTQ7W— HHS Civil Rights (@HHSOCR) September 29, 2025
The announcement comes after the Office for Civil Rights referred Harvard to the US Justice Department to acknowledge the allegations that the university failed to address discrimination and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students on its campus.
Director of the Office for Civil Rights, Paula Stannard, has said that her office notified Harvard of its right to a formal adminrative hearing wherein an adminrative law judge would examine if the Ivy League school violated the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard has 20 days in order to seek a hearing.
Stannard, in a statement said, “OCR’s referral of Harvard for formal adminrative proceedings reflects OCR’s commitment to safeguard both taxpayer investments and the broader public interest,” Reuters reported.
President Trump launched a campaign to bring changes at Harvard and other educational institutes leveraging federal funding as the US president believes these educational institutions have been gripped antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies.
Harvard had sued the Trump adminration over its actions and a US drict judge ruled in favour of the university earlier this month, stating that the federal government had unlawfully terminated more than $2 billion in research grants awarded to the school.
(with inputs from Reuters)
