[duxup]

Monitoring staff and students viewpoints and directing the school to hire, potentially fire, admit the governments prescribed people based on viewpoints has nothing to do with “declining to subsidize speech”.

If you’re a student or even random staff, you’re not likely even asking for a grant, but you are subject to having your viewpoint assessed under the system demanded by the current administration, for no reason other than the federal government demands it.

Presumably based on the letter prospective students would have to have their viewpoints assessed to make sure they have the correct viewpoints.

[rayiner]

The government is declining to fund with public money what it views as a hotbed of ideology that’s contrary to the public interest to subsidize. The things you mention are remedial measures Harvard could agree to implement if it wants to show the administration that it’s changed its character into something the government does want to subsidize.

Again, this is within precedent. Universities are already required—under threat of loss of federal funds—to have a compliance framework for Title VI and IX that requires, among other things, universities to police campus speech that would be beyond the government’s authority to regulate outside of campus.