Good day all. It’s time to revisit the Kremlin on the Charles, Harvard University. If you have been living under a rock for the last six months, the Trump Administration has been hammering Harvard and the other Ivy League schools that have been ignoring things like civil rights, the constitution and aiding a terrorist organization. We can also throw in rampant antisemitism and flat out racism.
Harvard has been provided with a lit of things to fix, and they have pretty much ignored it and demanded that the Administration keep sending them taxpayer funds. Now we have a report from Harvard that claims that Federal Actions could cost Harvard up to $1 billion dollars a year. Here are the details from the Harvard Crimson:
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 warned Monday that the combined financial impact of sweeping federal policy changes — including research funding cuts, threats to international students, and a sharp increase in the tax on endowment income — could cost the University up to $1 billion annually.
In a letter to University affiliates, Garber and other senior administrators warned that next year’s budgets will extend and deepen cuts to cope with mounting pressure from the Trump administration’s now months-long campaign, including the termination of more than $2 billion in research funding.
“The unprecedented challenges we face have led to disruptive changes, painful layoffs, and ongoing uncertainty about the future,” the letter read.
First, this is all, completely a self inflicted problem. Harvard’s issues have been around for a long time. They were all brought to a head with the pro-Hamas actions by Harvard after the October 7th attack on Israel. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the House was back in the hands of the Republicans and they started ripping the Ivy League schools several new ones over their handling of the “Protests,” nothing would have been done.
Then President Trump won in a landslide in 2024 and brought in a new team that wasn’t going to play Deep State games any longer. President Trump, unlike Biden and the Democrats, is a friend of Israel. Yes, there are things that both sides disagree with, but the Trump Administration knows which side is which.
The Trump Administration then looked at the laws on discrimination and what was happening with Harvard, Columbia and the other schools and laid down the law. Harvard just decided that “They were to important” to be bothered with things like following the laws. Basically, this is a classic FAFO situation and Harvard is now in the FO phase.
The updated budget plans for fiscal year 2026 are expected to be released this week and come in the wake of layoffs at the Harvard Kennedy School, the School of Public Health, and the Medical School, where deans have cited mounting financial strain tied to federal actions.
The Kennedy School for Deep State Ruling of Government closing down is not loss to society or the United States. I’m looking at the Wikipedia entry on the Harvard School of Public Health and I really don’t see it as useful these days. It was set up back in 1913 when medicine was a lot different and far more primitive. Today? I think it can go away.
Now the Harvard Medical School is an entirely different kettle of fish, or should be. One of their issues of late is going all DEI on selecting students instead of finding the best ones possible. If they need money, then close down the other two programs and transfer resources to the medical school. Harvard can also pull some money out of that $50+ billion dollar slush fund they’re sitting on.
They also explicitly acknowledged, for the first time, the endowment tax hike signed into law by United States President Donald Trump on July 4. The new law raises the federal excise tax on income from Harvard’s $53 billion endowment from 1.4 percent to 8 percent, a change that is expected to cost Harvard more than $200 million annually.
This is all on Harvard again. They are sitting on so much cash that they could fund the education of every student right through to the PhD level if they wanted to. They just don’t.
Since April, Harvard has faced hostility from both the White House and Congress, locked in a high-stakes political tug-of-war playing out on nearly a dozen fronts. The Trump administration and its allies have frozen more than billions of dollars in federal research funding, pushed to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status, scrutinized foreign donations, called for the elimination of diversity programs, and targeted Harvard’s governance structure.
The reason people want these DEI programs gone is simple. It’s just another form of racism. Harvard has a long history of trolling for students based on skin color and other criteria instead of the way most people want it. Through hard work, good grades and selecting the best possible.
International students, in particular, have been caught in the crossfire. In late May, the Department of Homeland Security moved to revoke Harvard’s certification to host international students. Just over a week later, Trump signed an executive order restricting entry to the U.S. for students planning to study at Harvard. Harvard challenged both actions in court and has since secured preliminary relief.
I covered that in a post back in May. Harvard ran off to an Obama Judge, Allison Burroughs, who decided that she is in charge of issuing visas, not the State Department or Congress. I’m not sure where things stand with that, but it’s definitely another reason that a number of federal judges need to be invited to spend more time with their families and soon.
Still, Garber and other administrators warned on Monday that the situation was far from resolved.
“Our ability to host international students and scholars on campus is subject to ongoing challenge,” the letter read.
Harvard and the Ivy League have a lot of problems, and this isn’t just with the Ivy League schools. Colleges and Universities across the country are seeing enrollments collapse and many of the smaller schools are closing their doors. Parents are figuring out that a college education in most cases, is not worth the 10’s of thousands of dollars in tuition and debt it now costs. Instead trade schools and apprenticeships are being seen as the way to success.
Harvard is a long way from running out of money. However, even their own alumni have just about had it with the way the administration is running things. I understand that donations are way down. The only question now is, will Harvard learn their lesson and return to being one of the finest schools in the country, or will the keep their heads in the sand and ignore reality?
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