The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services terminated $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University, citing the institution’s failure to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.
The Trump administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly $3 billion in recent weeks.
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has sought to overhaul U.S. academia, which he believes has been gripped by anti-American, Marxist, and radical left ideologies. The administration accuses Harvard of considering ethnicity in student applications and allowing discrimination against Jews amid pro-Palestinian protests.
“Due to Harvard University’s continued failure to address antisemitic harassment and racial discrimination, HHS is terminating multiple multi-year grant awards over their full duration,” the health department stated. Harvard didn’t immediately comment on the decision.
The university previously stated it couldn’t absorb the entire cost of frozen grants and is working with researchers to find alternative funding. Harvard is also suing the Trump administration over the grant cuts.
Recently, the university settled a lawsuit with an Orthodox Jewish student who alleged Harvard ignored antisemitism on campus.
