Harvard, Trump nearly $ 500 million payment to settle the freezing of federal funding, says source

The framework is still settled with significant gaps to be filled, but the two parties have agreed financial figure and a regulation could be finalized in the coming weeks, according to the person who spoke to the Associated Press on the state of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Harvard refused to comment.

The agreement would end a several month battle that has tested the limits of government authority over American universities. This started as an investigation into campus anti -Semitism turned into a total quarrel while the Trump administration reduced more than $ 2.6 billion in research funding, ended federal contracts and tried to prevent Harvard from welcoming international students.

The university responded with a pair of proceedings alleging illegal reprisals by the administration after Harvard rejected a set of requests that campus leaders considered a threat to academic freedom.

The details of the proposed framework were reported for the first time by the New York Times.

A payment of $ 500 million would be the largest sum to date, because the administration is pressure for financial sanctions in its colonies with elite universities. The University of Columbia has agreed to pay $ 200 million in the government as part of an agreement restoring access to federal funding, while Brown University has accepted $ 50 million separately from the work organizations of Rhode Island.

The details were not finalized on how Harvard’s potential payment is said to be, said the person.

The Republican President pushed to reform the prestigious universities which he decreases as bastions of liberal ideology.

Its administration has reduced the financing of several Ivy League schools while putting pressure on the demands of its political campaign. None has been targeted as frequently or as strongly as Harvard, the richest American university with an endowment worth $ 53 billion.

More than a dozen Democrats at the Congress who attended Harvard warned against a regulation on August 1, warning the university that it could justify “rigorous surveillance and investigation of the congress”. Capitulating political requests, they said, would establish a dangerous precedent in all higher education.

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