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Description: Nearly $9 billion in federal funding at Harvard University hangs in the balance as the Trump administration launched a review in response to the Ivy League school’s handling of anti-Semitism on campus.

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Nearly $9 billion in federal funding at Harvard University hangs in the balance as the Trump administration launched a review in response to the Ivy League school’s handling of anti-Semitism on campus.

The review, announced Monday afternoon, is part of the ongoing effort by the Justice Department’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to address rising anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses. The task force said it will review more than $255.6 million in federal contracts with Harvard and its affiliated institutions, in addition to more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments.

The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration will lead the inquiry to “ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities.”

“This initiative strengthens enforcement of President [Donald] Trump’s Executive Order titled ‘Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,’ which ensures that federally funded institutions uphold their legal and ethical responsibilities to prevent anti-Semitic harassment,” the multi-agency news release <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/ed-hhs-and-gsa-initiate-federal-contract-and-grant-review-of-harvard-university">said</a>.

Harvard President Alan Garber confirmed the investigation in a campus-wide <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/our-resolve/">letter</a>, acknowledging that potential funding cuts could have severe consequences.

“If this funding is stopped, it will halt life-saving research and imperil important scientific research and innovation,” he wrote.

Garber officially took the helm at the university last August after his predecessor, Claudine Gay, resigned amid criticism over missteps at a Congressional anti-Semitism hearing and allegations of plagiarism. He said the institution had since “devoted considerable effort” to combating anti-Semitism on campus, but “still have much work to do.”

Harvard is the latest elite university in recent weeks to come under scrutiny over anti-Semitism. Just 10 days earlier, Columbia University faced a similar review that put nearly $5 billion in federal funding at risk.

Columbia first received notice in early March that the government was <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/03/hhs-ed-gsa-announce-additional-measures-end-anti-semitic-harassment-college-campuses.html">reviewing</a> $54.1 million in federal contracts. Days later, on March 7, the administration <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancelation-of-grants-and-contracts-columbia-university-worth-400-million">rescinded</a> $400 million in grants and contracts and issued a sweeping list of demands for compliance. Columbia <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/columbia-university-makes-policy-changes-in-response-to-trump-admins-demands-to-combat-anti-semitism-5829462">agreed</a> to nearly all the requirements a week later, but the withheld funds have yet to be reinstated.

Katrina Armstrong, who became Columbia’s interim president after Minouche Shafik stepped down after a widely criticized performance at a congressional hearing—the same hearing that contributed to Harvard’s leadership change—<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/columbia-university-interim-president-steps-down-5833385">resigned</a> on March 28.

Harvard now faces its own federal review, with the Trump administration assessing whether the elite university has done enough to protect its Jewish students.

“The government has informed us that they are considering this action because they are concerned that the university has not fulfilled its obligations to curb and combat anti-Semitic harassment,” Garber told the Harvard community.

“We fully embrace the important goal of combatting anti-Semitism, one of the most insidious forms of bigotry,” he continued. “Urgent action and deep resolve are needed to address this serious problem that is growing across America and around the world.”

Garber moved on to outline Harvard’s recent reforms, including stricter disciplinary measures, enhanced training and education on anti-Semitism, increased security for Jewish students, and new programs to promote “civil dialogue and respectful disagreement.”
<h2>Unrest on Campuses</h2>
These reforms come amid months of unrest on American campuses, fueled by the war in the Middle East. Harvard was among the many universities where demonstrators set up encampments in protest of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which was a retaliation for the Hamas-led terror attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that left about 1,200 people dead and more than 200 kidnapped.

Jewish students and faculty have reported that these protests often devolved into hateful rhetoric and even violence, making them feel unwelcome and unsafe. In January, Harvard managed to settle a pair of lawsuits brought by Jewish students who accused the university of fostering a hostile environment, agreeing to provide them with additional protections.

“We will engage with members of the federal government’s task force to combat anti-Semitism to ensure that they have a full account of the work we have done and the actions we will take going forward to combat antisemitism,” Garber wrote.

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