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He added that the focus on elite research institutions may reflect a deeper shift in federal funding priorities. “These are institutions — Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia — that are major sources of the production of research. And so if the administration wants to clamp down on the kind of research that’s being done, this is a sort of target that you might expect them to go after.”

Notre Dame, Campbell explained, has not yet been publicly drawn into the conflict. “Notre Dame as an institution has thus far — but I should stress only thus far — been mostly insulated from the sort of actions that we’ve seen from the administration,” he said.

“Our religious character probably does somewhat insulate us,” Campbell added, “but I wouldn't want to overstate that, because I do think that every university is vulnerable at this moment.”

As Harvard and other institutions move toward legal action, law scholars suggest the lawsuits will challenge both the process and constitutional basis of the administration’s policies.

“Harvard has advanced (and other institutions likely will, too) a variety of constitutional, statutory, and administrative arguments against the Administration’s recent funding-freeze orders,” professor Richard Garnett of Notre Dame Law School wrote. “The claims are that the administration has not followed the required procedures for enforcing conditions on funding and that it has imposed unauthorized requirements that infringe on institutions’ First Amendment rights.”

Garnett explained that while all universities receiving federal funds accept legal conditions, those conditions cannot override constitutional protections. “There are strong arguments that the strings currently attached to federal funds do not include the power to impose ideological requirements on universities’ core academic decisions and practices,” he wrote. “Any university — public or private — that accepts federal funding may be subject to the reasonable, relevant conditions that are attached to that funding. But those conditions must be consistent with the First Amendment’s free-speech and religious-freedom guarantees.”
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Link: https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025/04/notre-dame-political-science-faculty-discuss-legal-and-political-challenges-facing-universities