Trump announced the settlement with Harvard when signing a regulation on research on children's cancer in the oval office. Asked by journalists for details, He admitted, however, that the contract has not yet been finalized, but added that it was $ 500 million.
– They would pay about $ 500 million. (…) They will run vocational schools and teach people how to serve artificial intelligence and many other things. Engines, many other things – said Trump.
As he said These schools would be run by the university, and if the university fulfills her contract, her “sins will be forgiven”.
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Learning did not refer to the announcement of the US President
The university has not yet commented on Trump's wordswhile the university newspaper “The Harvard Crimson” found them surprising, taking into account the current deadlock in conversations with Harvard. Earlier, however, a similar settlement with Trump's administration was concluded by the Brown University, which, like Harvard, belongs to the prestigious ivy league.
Trump has repeatedly made many charges against the universities, including for tolerating anti -Semitism, politicization or relationships with the communist party of China. He also undertook a number of activities against the school, receiving some of the funds for scientific research and trying to block the possibility of accepting students from abroad. The courts have mostly blocked the president's decisions, including annulment of his decision to collect $ 2.7 billion in grants and federal contracts with the University.
