The framework is still being sorted out with significant gaps to close, but both sides have agreed on the financial figure and a settlement could be finalized in coming weeks, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Harvard declined to comment.
Details of the proposed framework were first reported by The New York Times.
Details have not been finalized on where Harvard’s potential payment would go, the person said.
The Republican president has been pushing to reform prestigious universities that he decries as bastions of liberal ideology.
More than a dozen Democrats in Congress who attended Harvard cautioned against a settlement on Aug. 1, warning the university it may warrant “rigorous Congressional oversight and inquiry.” Capitulating to political demands, they said, would set a dangerous precedent across all of higher education.
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