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The Trump administration has accused Harvard University officials of failing to comply with an ongoing civil rights investigation into alleged campus antisemitism, The Boston Globe<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a letter to Harvard president Alan Garber that it was referring the civil rights investigation to the U.S. Department of Justice, which it is permitted to do in cases where \u201ccompliance under Title\u00a0VI cannot be obtained voluntarily.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The letter, written by Paula Stannard, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, also referenced legal actions taken by Harvard, which has fought back against frozen federal research funding and other matters.<\/p>\n \u201cRather than voluntarily comply with its obligations under Title\u00a0VI, Harvard has chosen scorched-earth litigation against the Federal government,\u201d Stannard wrote. \u201cThe parties\u2019 several months\u2019 engagement has been fruitless.\u201d<\/p>\n Harvard did not respond to a request for comment from Inside Higher Ed<\/em>.<\/p>\n The letter comes as Harvard is reportedly considering a $500\u00a0million settlement with the Trump administration to close current investigations and unfreeze $2\u00a0billion in federal research funding. Harvard is reportedly mulling a settlement even though a judge appears to view its case favorably.<\/p>\n If Harvard settles, it will add to the list of wealthy and highly visible institutions that have yielded to the Trump administration\u2019s demands in recent weeks. Columbia University agreed to far-reaching changes and a $221\u00a0million settlement to restore federal funding and close investigations into antisemitism on campus that stemmed from pro-Palestinian protests in 2024. Brown University also struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore $510\u00a0million in research funding, agreeing to various concessions but no payout to the federal government.<\/p>\n As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, some Harvard faculty members sent a letter to the president and board, urging Garber to push back on what they called \u201cthe Trump administration\u2019s assault on the vibrancy and inclusiveness of U.S. higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n Signed by multiple well-known scholars, the letter exhorted Garber not to \u201ccompromise core university and academic-freedom values that generations before us have worked to define and sustain,\u201d and to resist ceding power to the federal government over hiring and admissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Trump administration has accused Harvard University officials of failing to comply with an ongoing civil rights investigation into alleged campus antisemitism, The Boston Globe reported. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a letter to Harvard president Alan Garber that it was referring the civil rights investigation to the U.S. Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[6536,676,7403,658,7404],"class_list":{"0":"post-13724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-accuses","9":"tag-harvard","10":"tag-hhs","11":"tag-investigations","12":"tag-thwarting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}