Harvard Refuses to Surrender Independence After Trump Threat (1)

Harvard University refused to accept a deal with the Trump administration two weeks after the US government threatened to halt $9 billion in funding, vowing it won’t “surrender its independence or its constitutional rights.”

“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,” the school’s lawyers — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and King & Spalding — wrote in a letter Monday to US agencies including the Department of Education.

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Harvard president Alan Garber said in a ...