US EditionHow Long Can America’s Colleges and Universities Survive Trump’s ‘Chaos Tax’?
- President Donald Trump is escalating a battle with Harvard University by threatening to redirect three billion dollars in federal grant money to trade schools as of May 26, 2025.
- This conflict arose from Trump’s demands that Harvard eliminate diversity and activism initiatives while investing more in vocational education amid growing skepticism about the value of traditional degrees.
- Harvard, which holds a $53 billion endowment and receives significant federal research funding, faces withheld billions in grants due to alleged political noncompliance, sparking lawsuits and financial strain.
- On Truth Social, Trump announced that he is thinking about reallocating three billion dollars in grant funds from Harvard, which he labeled as highly antisemitic, to support vocational and trade schools nationwide, aligning with his administration’s priorities.
- This dispute may reshape higher education funding priorities, but uncertainty remains on how or if redirected funds will be officially reallocated to trade schools without congressional approval.
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Trump’s Absurd War on Education
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Students can always paralyze the institutions in which they are formed. It is enough for them to occupy the facilities. Those who start their political career thus call such actions “takes”. Thus they acquire a heroic connotation, which seduces the youth. It would be the equivalent of participating in the “take” of the Bastille or the Morro de Arica. But one thing is to paralyze one institution, and another is to make it advance. Universities, u…
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Harvard Medical School renames its diversity office, removes content from recruitment website - The Boston Globe
The actions come as Harvard is locked in an fierce and costly battle on multiple fronts with the Trump administration, which is pressing universities and industries to abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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