Overview

• A multi-agency task force led by HHS Office for Civil Rights formally found Harvard acted with deliberate indifference to antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students.
• Officials warned that failure to enact adequate reforms immediately will trigger termination of the university’s remaining federal grants and contracts.
• The notice follows earlier freezes of more than $2.6 billion in research funding and restrictions on international student visas.
• Harvard contests the government’s conclusions, has reopened settlement talks and is pursuing legal challenges to prior funding freezes and visa bans.
• The dispute reflects a broader administration strategy of leveraging federal resources to compel policy changes at elite universities on campus safety and diversity programs.