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Johana Bhuiyan and staff

Harvard sues Trump administration over efforts to ‘gain control of academic decision-making’

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photograph: Kenneth Martin/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging it is trying to “gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard”.

The university is fighting back against the administration’s threat to review about $9bn in federal funding after Harvard officials refused to comply with a list of demands that included appointing an outside overseer to ensure that the viewpoints being taught at the university were “diverse”. Harvard is specifically looking to halt a freeze on $2.2bn in grants.

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