Trump administration threatens to cut all Harvard funding over Jewish students’ rights

Jun 30, 2025 08:03 PM IST

President Donald Trump had announced earlier this month that Harvard had engaged in talks with administration officials to resolve the standoff.

The Trump administration on Monday threatened to cut all federal funding to Harvard University, saying that its investigation has concluded that civil rights of Jewish students had been violated.

The Ivy League school has been at loggerheads with the Trump administration for the several past months over the rights of Jewish students in the campus. (Reuters)

A letter sent to the Ivy League school said that the university was in violation of civil rights laws that requires colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or nationality.

The Trump administration investigators found that Harvard was at times a “willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff”, the letter said, adding that campus leaders let the anti-semitism grow on the campus.

“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” The Associated Press reported, citing the official letter.

Harvard has already lost more than $2.6 billion in federal funding after it rejected a list of demands from President Donald Trump, calling for a massive overhaul in campus hiring, admissions, and governance.

Meanwhile, the Ivy League school has also sued the Trump administration.

This is a developing story. We will update with more information.

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