特朗普政府起诉哈佛大学，指控其未能遵守对其招生程序的审查

【中美创新时报2026年2月13日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）特朗普政府周五起诉哈佛大学，指控其未能遵守联邦政府对其招生程序的审查。《波士顿环球报》记者特拉维斯·安德森对此作了下述报道。

周五提交至波士顿美国地方法院的民事诉状称：“哈佛大学不配合联邦调查。它非法向美国司法部（以下简称‘司法部’）隐瞒了必要信息，而这些信息对于确定哈佛大学（该校近期曾有种族歧视历史）是否仍在招生过程中存在歧视至关重要。”

周五上午，哈佛大学尚未对此事作出回应。

“这项调查是校方针对哈佛大学发起的又一次滥用职权和报复行为——也是众多此类行为中的最新一起，”一位大学发言人在3月份校方宣布招生审查时曾这样表示。

当时哈佛大学指出，特朗普政府此前已经取消或威胁削减数十亿美元的资金，其中包括医疗和科学研究经费。

诉讼称，在2023年美国最高法院实际上终止了大学招生中基于种族的平权行动之后，司法部于去年春天“启动了对哈佛大学本科、医学院和法学院项目的合规性审查，以确定哈佛大学是否继续以种族为由非法歧视入学申请人”。

然而，投诉中指出，“教育部无法确定哈佛大学是否遵守了法律。”

诉讼称，调查人员已向哈佛大学索取相关材料近一年之久。

诉讼称：“十个多月前，教育部要求哈佛大学提供评估其是否遵守《民权法案》第六章规定的必要文件，包括申请人层面的录取数据。哈佛大学一直没有提供这些信息。哈佛大学拒绝配合教育部的调查违反了联邦法律。作为教育部资助的接受者，哈佛大学有义务根据联邦法规及其与教育部签订的合同配合教育部的合规审查。”

然而，诉讼称，“哈佛大学阻挠了教育部对潜在歧视行为的调查。它拖延文件提交进度，并拒绝提供与申请人录取决定相关的必要文件。哈佛大学最近一次提交招生相关文件是在2025年5月。多次延​​期的文件提交期限早已过去。”

司法部要求法官发布禁令，责令该大学提供所要求的信息。

该部门还希望法官给予“美国司法利益可能需要的其他进一步救济”，诉状中写道。

自特朗普第二次就任总统以来，本届政府已在多个方面与哈佛大学展开法庭较量。

截至10月，哈佛大学1675名新生中，黑人学生占比接近9%，低于去年秋季的10.4%。新生中，西班牙裔或拉丁裔学生占比为8.5%，低于去年的11.8%。亚裔美国学生的比例则从27.4%上升至31.6%。

本报道使用了《环球报》之前的报道和《环球报》通讯社提供的素材。

题图：哈佛大学剑桥校区。图片来源：Sophie Park/彭博社

附原英文报道：

Trump administration sues Harvard for allegedly failing to comply with review of its admissions process

By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated February 13, 2026

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge. Sophie Park/Bloomberg

The Trump administration on Friday sued Harvard University for allegedly failing to comply with a federal review of its admissions process.

“Harvard University is not complying with a federal investigation,” read the civil complaint, filed Friday in US District Court in Boston. “It unlawfully has withheld from the United States Department of Justice (’Department’) information necessary to determine whether Harvard, which has a recent history of racial discrimination, is continuing to discriminate in its admissions process.”

Harvard didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday morning.

“This investigation is yet another abusive and retaliatory action — the latest of many — that the administration has initiated against Harvard,” a university spokesperson had said in March, when the administration announced the admissions review.

Harvard at the time noted that the Trump administration had previously eliminated or threatened to cut billions of dollars in funding, including for medical and scientific research.

After the US Supreme Court in 2023 effectively ended the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions, the Justice Department last spring “initiated compliance reviews of Harvard’s undergraduate, medical-school, and law-school programs to determine whether Harvard continues to unlawfully discriminate against applicants for admission on the ground of race,” the lawsuit said.

However, the complaint said, “the Department is unable to determine whether Harvard is following the law.”

Investigators have been seeking relevant material from Harvard for nearly a year, the suit said.

“Over ten months ago, the Department sought documents necessary to evaluate Harvard’s compliance with Title VI, including applicant-level admissions data. Harvard has not provided this information,” the suit said. “Harvard’s refusal to cooperate with the Department’s investigation violates federal law. As a recipient of Department funding, Harvard is required by federal regulations and its own contract with the Department to cooperate with the Department’s compliance reviews.”

However, the suit said, “Harvard has thwarted the Department’s efforts to investigate potential discrimination. It has slow-walked the pace of production and refused to provide pertinent documents relating to applicant-level admissions decisions. Harvard made its most recent production of admissions-related documents in May 2025. The repeatedly extended deadlines for document production have long passed.”

The Justice Department is asking a judge to issue an injunction ordering the university to provide the requested information.

The department also wants a judge to grant “the United States such other and further relief as the interests of justice may require,” the complaint said.

The administration has battled Harvard on several fronts in court since Trump took office for the second time.

As of October, Black students made up close to 9 percent of Harvard’s 1,675 first-year students, down from 10.4 percent the prior fall. Another 8.5 percent of the new class was Hispanic or Latino, compared to 11.8 percent the prior year. The number of Asian American students rose from 27.4 to 31.6 percent.

Material from prior Globe stories and from Globe wire services was used in this report.