The Trump administration has placed billions of dollars of federal funding to Harvard and affiliated institutions under "review."

The administration lists actions Harvard must take to keep federal funding, while also freezing $510 million from Brown University.

The U.S. government plans to freeze grants to Brown University and separately set conditions that Harvard University must meet - including a mask ban and removal of diversity, equity and inclusion programs - to receive federal money.

While many students kept to business as usual on Harvard Yard, community members, particularly professors, focused on research expressed anxiety over the government's review.

Harvard University became the latest institution to face federal scrutiny from the Trump administration.

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.

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.

Hilary Rantisi, the associate director of the program, and the sole Palestinian American employed at the divinity school, said she was told her position was not renewed.

It could lose up to US$9 billion in federal funding if it doesn't comply with the 9 requirements. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.