Harvard University student Prince Williams has long suspected that his school’s administration has been watching him closely. Williams, an organizer with the African and African American Resistance Organization,

The lawsuit calls threats from President Donald Trump's administration to cut billions in funding an attempt to "gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard.”

The Trump administration appears open to negotiations with Harvard, even after America’s most prestigious university sued the federal government – setting up a clash over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight.

Harvard has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in Massachusetts federal court after the feds froze more than $2 billion in grants to the Cambridge campus.

Harvard sued the Trump administration in federal court on Monday over its "unlawful" multibillion dollar funding freeze of research grants and contracts for the university.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Monday that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.

Harvard University has a history of undermining free speech and academic freedom, but the Trump administration’s response of freezing its federal funding is unlawful and unconstitutional.