US President Donald Trump has given Harvard University a long list of demands, but the university has refused to give in to them.
The president has frozen $2.2bn worth of funding as a result. He wants Harvard to change the way it governs, hires and teaches because of concerns has over antisemitism on campus.
"No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach," Harvard’s president Alan Garber said.
It’s the biggest example of an issue playing out in universities across the US.
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