Administration freezes more than $2.2 billion after Harvard rejects its demands

Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said in a letter to faculty and students that the university would not submit to a list of demands made last Friday. Among them are that it eliminate DEI programs, screen international students who are “supportive of terrorism or anti-Semitism” and ensure “viewpoint diversity” in its hiring. At stake, the government said, was some $9 billion in federal funding. “No government,” Garber wrote, “regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”