Zeitliten: Trump's escalating patient situation with Harvard University | Donald Trump News

President Donald Trump's administration has taken on a hard line against the US universities about their answers to Pro-Palestine protests as well as their diversity initiatives and curricula.

The move on Thursday to block Harvard University from the enrollment of foreign students is the recent escalation in a month -long patting situation that critics say that they were rooted in unfounded claims of rampant anti -Semitism.

In a statement, Kristi Noem said that the secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Security was “Harvard for promoting violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on her campus”.

Harvard has described the recent step as “illegal” and “retaliatory measure”.

So we came here:

December 2023: The patient situation extends to the months after the attack on October 7, 2023 on South Israel and the resulting Israeli offensive on Gaza, in which at least 53,655 Palestinians have been killed since then.

The statement by Harvard President Claudine Gay at the time before the government's reaction to Propalestine Protests triggers, like chosen civil servants, in particular the Republicans, require greater procedures.

Gay then steps back from her post and will be replaced by Alan Garber in August 2024.

January 2025: In January 2025, Trump resigned after a campaign in which he swore to put pro-Palestine protests, DEI programs for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and “ideology” in college.

Trump also signs a number of executive regulations in which government agencies take measures against DEI programs at private institutions, including universities, and increase government measures to combat anti-Semitism, especially at locations.

February 2025: The US Justice Ministry (DOJ) starts a task force to “eradicate anti-Semitic harassment at schools and on the college campus”.

The Task Force later announces that it will attend 10 schools and said that it was “aware that the schools may not protect Jewish students and faculty members from illegal discrimination due to potential violation of federal law”.

Schools include Harvard and Columbia University, George Washington University, John's Hopkins University, New York University, the Northwestern University, the University of California, the Los Angeles, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota and the University of Southern California.

March 7, 2025: The Trump administration took its first measures against a US university, lowered the federal financing of $ 400 million to Columbia University and accuses the school of “continuing inactivity in the face of continuing harassment”.

In a subsequent letter from the Ministry of Education, Harvard and dozens of other universities warn of “potential enforcement measures”.

March 21, 2025: Columbia includes Trump's demands, which include the ban on facial masks, strengthening the campus police with the arrest agency and the installation of a new administrator to monitor the Department of the Middle East, in South Asia and African studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.

March 31, 2025: The US educational departments (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US General Services Administration (GSA) state an official review of $ 255.6 million in Harvard contracts and USD 8.7 billion in several years.

The review is part of the “ongoing efforts of the common task force to combat anti -Semitism,” the explanation says.

April 11, 2025: Harvard is sent in a letter in which the university “does not meet the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify the federal investments” and list several requirements of the Trump management.

The demands include an overhaul of governance, which reduces the power of students and some employees who reforms attitudes and approval practices, refuses to admit students who “hosted hostile values ​​and institutions of hostile” and the examination of several academic programs and centers, including several with the nearby east.

April 14, 2025: Harvard President Garber applies an energetic rejection of the claims and writes: “The university will not give up its independence or give up its constitutional rights.”

The US administration announces an immediate freezer of the financing, including USD 2.2 billion in several years of scholarships and multi-year multi-year contracts of $ 60 million.

April 15, 2025: In a social post of truth, Trump floats that Harvard could “tax tax -free status and as a political company”. He accuses Harvard to promote “political, ideological and terrorist inspiration/support of 'illness”.

April 16, 2025: The Department of Homeland Security calls Harvard to hand over records of foreign students “illegal and violent activities” and at the same time to revoke the approval of the student and exchange of the university. The certification is required so that you enroll foreign students. Noem gives a deadline on April 30th.

April 21, 2025: Harvard files a lawsuit against the Trump administration and accused her of violating the first change in the US constitution with “arbitrary and moody” funding.

April 30, 2025: Harvard says that it was requested by NoEM in relation to foreign students and does not publish the type of information provided.

May 2, 2025: Trump says again that Harvard's administration will take out tax -free status. No measures are taken.

May 5, 2025: The Trump administration says that it reduces all new federal subsidies to Harvard.

May 13, 2025: The US-Task Force to combat anti-Semitism announces a further $ 450 million in federal financing of eight federal authorities.

May 19, 2025: The DOJ announces that it will use the False Claims Act, which is usually used to punish federal financing recipients who are accused of corruption to hold universities like Harvard about the guidelines. The Ministry of Health and Human Services also says that it ends 60 million dollars in federal subsidies to Harvard.

May 22, 2025: Noem announces the revocation of Harvard's student and exchange visitor program, which blocks it through the enrollment of new foreign students and says that current students have to be transferred to continue their studies.

Harvard replies: “We are fully determined to keep Harvard's ability to align our international students and scientists who come from more than 140 countries and enrich the university – and this nation immeasurably.”