Overview
- On June 30, the HHS Office for Civil Rights and a multi-agency task force concluded that Harvard violated Title VI by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment and hate imagery.
- Harvard President Alan Garber’s administration has formally rejected the violation finding and filed lawsuits challenging the suspension of over $2.6 billion in federal research grants and restrictions on international student visas.
- University officials say they are engaged in confidential settlement talks with the Trump administration even as they mount legal challenges to the funding freezes.
- The government has already withheld $2.6 billion in grants and warns that without swift policy changes, Harvard could lose access to the remaining federal research funding and tax-exempt status.
- The dispute marks a key escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign targeting campus antisemitism and enforcing federal civil rights requirements at elite universities.