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Eighteen Universities Seek to Join Harvard Suit Over Trump Funding Cuts

University leaders say the funding cuts violate academic freedom by forcing ideological compliance at elite research institutions.

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After the Public Health Service hospitals were closed in the 1980s, the Wyman Park Building continued as a private institution serving military families. Today, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians provide outpatient services on its lower floors, while the upper floors are used for university academic and administrative offices.
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Overview

  • Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland led 16 other research institutions in asking a Boston federal court on June 6 for permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Harvard’s lawsuit.
  • Harvard’s complaint argues that the April freeze of $2.2 billion in grants and the subsequent severance of $100 million in contracts breach its First Amendment rights and federal rule-making procedures.
  • The coalition features major research universities such as Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Yale, Boston University and Dartmouth, underscoring the sector’s reliance on federal funding.
  • Since January, Johns Hopkins has lost over $50 million in federal research awards, prompting the university to freeze hiring, pause pay increases and slow capital projects.
  • University leaders warn that prolonged funding suspensions will derail experiments, jeopardize early- career scientists’ prospects and weaken America’s global research competitiveness.