The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to review federal government grants to Harvard University and contracts with this elite higher education institution totaling about $9 billion, Foreign Policy magazine reports, citing its sources.
This was due to the university's leadership's inaction regarding manifestations of anti-Semitism on its campus.
Trump's task force on anti-Semitism is reviewing $255.6 million in current contracts and $8.7 billion in long-term grant agreements between the government and the university, according to a source familiar with the investigation, the newspaper reports.
The source notes that if Harvard University does not respond to the concerns of a task force on anti-Semitism and does not take action this week, it could begin to lose funding, the newspaper says the report.
The magazine notes that the Trump administration previously froze more than $400 million in funding to Columbia University for the same reasons.
In mid-March, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to 60 U.S. universities, threatening consequences if Jewish students were not protected from protests and guaranteed safe access to campus. Letters were received from six of the eight Ivy League universities: Brown, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton.