Harvard, Trump & $500M Settlement: Turning Point for Higher Education

President Donald Trump said that the Harvard University is about to pay the federal government 500 million dollars as part of a settlement. Should the information the president has provided be true, this would be one of the biggest settlements to date in the ongoing crackdown on elite universities by the White House.

”We’re in the process of getting very close and [Secretary of Education Linda McMahon] is finishing up the final details,” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office.

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”They’d be paying about $500 million and they’ll be operating trade schools

The settlement comes after months of friction between Harvard and the administration who alleged that the Ivy League school condoned anti-Semitism during pro-Palestinian demonstrations and managed its diversity and transgender programs improperly.

The federal authorities suspended billions of research funds, endangered the accreditation of Harvard and sought to bar the entry of international students.

Harvard retaliated in court and received a temporary reprieve of some of the actions taken by the administration. But university officials acknowledged that the showdown would cost Harvard about $1 billion a year.

The Department of Health and Human Services had even initiated a process that would have disqualified Harvard on all federal contracts.

According to Trump the deal would have Harvard offer training in such topics as artificial intelligence, engine work, etc.

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”When I went to school we had some people that weren’t particularly good students but they could take an engine apart blindfolded and put it back blindfolded,” Trump said. “But they weren’t too good at other things, and many of them ended up doing better than people that were.”

The new programs, Trump said, will offer highly skilled top-level workers to new car manufacturing facilities and the AI sector.

The agreement would see Harvard become the most recent high-end school to sign a contract with the Trump administration. Columbia University has already negotiated to pay 220 million, and Brown promised to pay 50 million to workforce development programs.

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