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Harvard University defies Trump’s demands, faces $2.3bn in funding cuts

More than a thousand students, faculty members and other participants walked out of Harvard's commencement ceremony in May 2024 [Mark Stockwell/EPA]

Harvard University has rejected demands from United States President Donald Trump’s administration that would see the university cede control to what it described as a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.

Within hours of Harvard taking its stand on Monday, the Trump administration announced it was freezing $2.3bn in federal funding to the Ivy League school.

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