President Donald Trump will be pulling all remaining federal funds from Harvard in the latest move against the Ivy League school over concerns of antisemitism and discrimination. The cuts to the federal grants will be worth around $100 million.
According to the draft of a letter obtained by the New York Times from the General Services Administration to all federal agencies, "GSA understands that Harvard continues to engage in race discrimination, including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life. The statistical evidence of Harvard's racial discrimination in their admissions - as revealed in Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard - is shocking, to say the least. For applicants in the top academic decile, admissions rates varied significantly by race."
"In this decile, admissions rates were: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics: 15% for Whites: 13% for Asians. The Supreme Court, in its decision on the case, rebuked Harvard's long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race. Harvard has shown no indication of reforming their admissions process - to the contrary. Harvard now has to offer a remedial math course, which has been described as 'middle school math' for incoming freshmen. These are the direct results of employing discriminatory factors, instead of merit, in admission decisions."
The letter added that the school has engaged in possible violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and later added there has been "anti-Semitic action that suggest[s] the institution has a disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students."
Because of these points and other factors, the GSA then told the agencies in the draft letter to provide a list of contract terminations with Harvard by June 6. Any contracts for essential services provided by Harvard won’t be canceled right away, but they’ll be transferred to other vendors aside from the school.