9/7/2025–|Last update: 20:30 (Mecca time)
The US “Bloomberg” network said that the president’s administration Donald Trump I warn Harvard University (Massachusetts) that its adoption (government license) may be in danger, and officially moved to the summons of university officials to obtain information related to foreign students.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services said today, Wednesday, that they had notified the “New England” Higher Education Committee that Harvard may not respect the committee’s accreditation criteria, noting anti -Semitism on the campus after the Israeli war on Gaza.
And it receives moves White House The latter, with a shadow of doubt about the progress of negotiations between Harvard and federal officials to resolve the confrontation that witnessed the government’s freezing of billions of dollars from research funds on the one hand, and the university to sue the American authorities on the other hand.
“Although the government’s calls are unjustified, the university will continue to cooperate with legal requests and obligations,” Harvard spokesman, Jason Newton, said in a statement. He added that the administration’s actions amount to “harmful government transcendence.”
Newton added that Harvard University – which is based in Cambridge in Massachusetts – will remain “fixed in its efforts to protect its society and its basic principles against unjustified revenge before Federal government“.
Secret weapon
Trump expressed optimism about a close solution last month, but those talks stopped by late last month, according to a source familiar with the file.
He described the accreditation that universities obtained as “his secret weapon”, and pledged in his election campaign to reform the system of its chain of transmission by the authorities.
He said that he would allow the creation of new accreditation bodies that impose “real” standards on colleges, such as getting rid of unnecessary administrative roles and protecting freedom of expression.
Violations
For its part, the New England Committee for Higher Education (the party that assigned the accreditation of Harvard) said on its website that it was aware that the university had received a message from the federal government stating that there are violations of the anti -discrimination laws.
The site stated that the committee “takes its role seriously regarding any investigations that its institutions face to ensure appropriate monitoring and take measures in accordance with the committee’s policies and procedures.”
In addition to Harvard, the Trump administration also exerted pressure on Columbia UniversityIn early last month, the Ministry of Education said that the university no longer fulfills accreditation criteria, noting “deliberate disregard” by its management towards harassing Jewish students.
Colombia received a warning that its adoption may be “in danger” from the accreditation body for higher education institutions in the middle states, which indicated “insufficient evidence” that the university complies with certain criteria such as enhancing a climate that respects the campus.
Accreditation bodies
Accreditation provides institutions to access students ’federal assistance and a guarantee for students, faculty and employers that the university is able to provide quality education.
On the other hand, the accreditation authorities are the only powers that can cancel the basic status of the university, and the donors to accredit themselves can recognize the recognition from the Ministry of Education, and thus will lose the colleges that are supervised by access to students’ federal assistance unless they move to another compatible donor or regain the original.
Harvard was at the center of the conflict between the American administration and colleges, as it is the oldest and richest of an American university, and it bore Trump’s anger and resisted the administration’s demands.
The administration canceled more than $ 2.4 billion in university research financing, and also threatened to cancel its status as a tax -exempt. On the other hand, the university stabbed the freezing of financing in the court.