Harvard Under Investigation: Trump Admin Probes ‘Racial Discrimination’ in Law Review, $2.3B at Risk

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Harvard Under Investigation: In a bold move, the Trump administration has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University and its Harvard Law Review, accusing the journal’s editors of race-based discrimination. The probe centers on whether the Law Review's selection process was influenced by race, allegedly fast-tracking a submission from a racial minority scholar.    #Harvard #TrumpAdministration #CivilRights #HarvardLawReview #DiversityDiscrimination #FederalFunding #AcademicFreedom #TitleVI #FirstAmendment #RaceAndMerit #HigherEducation #DEI #TensionsInAcademia #FreeSpeech #ResearchFunding  ~PR.274~HT.408~GR.124~

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00:00the president has been quite clear they must follow federal law he also wants to

00:06see Harvard apologize and Harvard should apologize in an escalation of tensions

00:16between academia and government the Trump administration has launched a

00:21civil rights investigation into Harvard University and it's making headlines

00:26across the country at the center of the storm the Harvard Law Review a

00:32prestigious student-run journal is being accused of race-based

00:38discrimination in its article selection process the US Departments of Education

00:44and Health and Human Services announced the probe on Monday claiming editors at

00:50the law review may have fast-tracked a submission written by a radical minority

00:56scholar allegedly prioritizing the race over merit

01:08but this investigation didn't drop in isolation just as earlier a federal judge

01:16agreed to fast-track Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration a legal

01:22battle over the freezing of a staggering 2.3 billion dollars in federal research

01:29funding Harvard warned that the freeze could cripple vital medical and

01:34scientific research and accused the administration of issuing illegal demand

01:40from restructuring university governance to interfering in hiring and academic

01:47freedom and free speech meanwhile the Trump administration's broader crackdown continues targeting diversity equity and inclusion programs climate

02:07initiatives and even transgender policies on campuses when it comes to Harvard

02:13as I said the president has been quite clear they must follow federal law he

02:16also wants to see Harvard apologize and Harvard should apologize for the

02:21egregious anti-semitism that took place on their college campus against Jewish

02:26American students there were professors who who have said that he had engaged in

02:32discriminatory behavior against Jewish students of course you had the former

02:35president of the university saying bullying harassment depends on the

02:39context you also had an encampment on Harvard yard that we all saw play out before the

02:45cameras the university failed to impose formal discipline on any students for

02:49this anti-semitic conduct violations including the occupation of a campus

02:53building in a disruption of classes with bull horns the president believes

02:56Harvard should apologize to its Jewish American students for allowing such a

03:00degree just behavior Harvard recently renamed its DEI office to community and

03:07campus life signaling a shift in response to growing pressure but critics argue this

03:14is merely cosmetic and the real issue lies in Washington's growing control over

03:20what schools can teach who they can hire and how they can function the backdrop to all of this last

03:28years pro-palestinian protests on campuses which the administration claims were

03:35fueled by anti-semitism leading to investigations threats to revoke tax-exempt

03:42status and demands for compliance that rights groups warned could chill academic

03:48dissent as the July 21 hearing approaches the nation watches not just to see how

03:56Harvard fears but to understand what's really at stake in the battle between free

04:02inquiry and federal power

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