The Trump administration is halting research funding to Princeton University and reviewing about $9 billion in federal grants and contracts to Harvard University, the latest escalation of the government’s cuts to scientific research.

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the government after cutting $400 million from Columbia University.

The Harvard Undergraduate Palestinian Solidarity Committee violated “policies pertaining to undergraduate student organizations and to university campus use” during a rally on Tuesday, a university spokesman said in an email.

Each year, business publication Forbes compiles a list of colleges and universities that, through data analysis and survey responses from C-suite executives, it determines to be among the “New Ivies.”

Harvard President Alan Garber says his university will work with the federal antisemitism task force after it launched a review of the school. On Monday, the task force announced it will be

President Trump’s antisemitism task force is probing more than $8.7 billion worth of multi-year federal grant commitments with Harvard University and its affiliates to ensure that it is

The investigation is the latest move by the Trump administration to pressure American universities to change their policies on a number of issues at the heart of culture wars that have beset the U.S.

Thursday marked the 2025 “Ivy Day,” when students across the globe received their admissions results from Ivy League and select top schools.

They began to congregate outside Harvard Yard around 2 p.m., with one organizer passing out “know your rights” cards.

According to publicly available information, America's top Ivy League schools received at least $6.4 billon in federal funding in fiscal year 2024.

Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway. The post Professors pushed Harvard to resist Trump.