Harvard Accused by Trump Officials of Financial Instability (1)

The Trump administration accused Harvard University of refusing to comply with a civil rights investigation and alleged that the nation’s richest college is falling into a position of financial instability, according to two separate letters from the Education Department.

The administration on Friday demanded a tranche of admissions documents and threatened to withhold federal funding if the university refused. The government is also requiring a guarantee of about $36 million to allay concerns over Harvard’s “financial responsibility.”

The letters redouble the administration’s pressure campaign on Harvard as talks to restore more than $2 billion in frozen federal research funding ...