(The Center Square) – In its effort to eliminate antisemitism in higher education, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University outlining conditions that must be met in order to receive federal funding.

The April 3 letter alleges that Harvard has “fundamentally failed to protect American students and faculty from antisemitic violence and harassment in addition to other alleged violations of Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

The letter was sent from the General Services Administration (GSA), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Education (ED) to Harvard President Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation lead member Penny Pritzker.

Neither Harvard media relations nor the Harvard Office of the President responded in time for publishing when asked for comment.

Days before the letter, ED announced in a release that it along with the GSA and the HHS would be reviewing Harvard’s nearly $9 billion in federal funding in an effort to eliminate “antisemitic harassment” on college campuses.

The April 3 communication is a follow-up to this review.

Following the announcement of the review and a tentative loss of almost $9 billion in funding, Harvard President Garber wrote in a message to the school: “We will engage with members of the federal government’s task force to combat antisemitism to ensure that they have a full account of the work we have done and the actions we will take going forward to combat antisemitism.”

According to the April 3 letter, a few immediate steps Harvard must take for a “continued financial relationship” with the U.S. government include shuttering diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; banning masks; and implementing merit-based policies.

Additionally, the letter states that “programs and departments that fuel antisemitic harassment must be reviewed and necessary changes made to address bias, improve viewpoint diversity, and end ideological capture.”

The letter states that “DEI programs teach students, faculty, staff, and leadership to make snap judgments about each other based on crude race and identity stereotypes, which fuels division and hatred based on race, color, national origin, and other protected identity characteristics.”

“All efforts should be made to shutter such programs,” the letter said.

The letter calls for “disciplinary reform and consistent accountability.”

It explains that “reforms must include a comprehensive mask ban (with medical and religious exemptions, given identification is always displayed) and a clarified time, place, and manner policy.”

It also instructed Harvard to adopt and implement merit-based admissions and hiring policies.

“All preferences based on race, color, or national origin” are to be ceased in admissions, while these preferences as well as those based on religion and sex are to be ceased in hiring.

“Immediate cooperation” with all the listed reforms is expected, the letter said.

“U.S. taxpayers invest enormously in U.S. colleges and universities, including Harvard University,” the letter said. “It is the responsibility of the federal government to ensure that all recipients are responsible stewards of taxpayer funds.”

When asked comment, ED did not respond by the time of publication, while GSA referred The Center Square to ED.

HHS acting general counsel and Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-semitism member Sean Keveny told The Center Square that “the Task Force will continue its efforts to root out anti-Semitism and to refocus our institutions of higher learning on the core values that undergird a liberal education.”

In early March, the Trump administration announced “$400 million in federal funding to Columbia University would be revoked because of the university’[s] alleged ongoing tolerance of anti-semitic protests on campus,” The Center Square previously reported.