Trump’s administration has been frozen over $ 1 billion in funding for Cornell and $ 790 million for Northwestern amid civil rights investigations in both schools, two US officials said.
The cessation of funding mainly includes grants and contracts with the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, according to officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the decision requested.
The moves are the last and largest in a rapidly scaled campaign against Elit of US universities that has led to billions of federal funds suspended or reviewed in just more than a month. Other schools that had threatened the funds include Brown, Columbia, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.
Cornell and Northwestern are facing both investigations into anti -Semitism and categories of racial discrimination from their efforts to promote diversity.
Cornell officials stated in a statement that they had received more than 75 interruption orders from the Defense Department on Tuesday, but that they did not have information to confirm that more than $ 1 billion had been suspended in funding. The affected grants, said, supported the research they described as “deeply important for US defense, cyberspace and health safety”.
“We are actively looking for information from federal officials to find out more about the basis for these decisions,” said the joint statement by Michael Kotlikoff of the University. Kavita Bala, The Provost? And Robert Harrington, Provost for medical affairs.
Jon Yates, a spokesman for Northwestern, said the university had not been notified by the federal government that funding had been frozen.
Northwestern, a Big Ten University, is the first non-IVY championship to funded by Trump administration targeted under investigations. The university issued a “progress report” last week that underlined its efforts to protect Jewish students, including compulsory anti -Semitism training for all students, school and staff.
“The federal funds received by Northwestern lead to innovative and rescue research, such as the recent evolution of the northwestern researchers of the smaller pacemaker in the world and the research that feeds the fight against Alzheimer’s disease,” said Yates. “This type of research is now in danger.”
Mr Yates added that Northwestern had “fully collaborated” with the federal and research of Congress.
Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education, was clear of the focus of the administration on elite universities, which Mr Trump has criticized as the Leftist Priest. He has said that taxpayers’ support is a “privilege” that can be withdrawn if universities do not comply with civil rights law.
Like other universities, Cornell and Northwestern were the place of conflict for the Gaza war.
Cornell and Northwestern were among the 60 universities warned by Trump’s administration last month of possible actions to enforce investigations into anti -Semitism. Each school also has surveys pending in racial discrimination categories.
Last month, the Republican Corps Education Committee brought northwest for legal clinics in his Law School, which had represented anti-Israel protest organizers.
University officials said legal clinics provide students with students and did not represent the views of the school. In a letter to the school, spokesman Tim Walberg, Commission President, and spokesman Burgess Owens, chairman of the Sub -Committee of the Commission for Higher Education, described education as “illegal, anti -Semitic behavior”.
Cornell recently defended himself against allegations that he did not do enough to stop anti -Semitism. In a New York Times opinion essay, Dr. Kotlikoff, president of Cornell, described the universities of the nation as institutions built to support and promote democratic rules even in view of the escalation of political and legal dangers.
“A dirty event that turns into a viral video raises understandable concern to administrators and graduates and adds more fuels to already burning fires,” Dr. Kotlikoff writes last week. “But if we want to maintain our value and meaning. We cannot let our attention be overcome our purpose.
Blister They contributed reports.
