As President Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Harvard and other American universities, our reporters covering higher education, Douglas Belkin and Sara Randazzo, answered subscriber questions about the administration’s moves.

On Monday, he threatened to redirect $3bn in Harvard research funding to vocational schools. On Tuesday, the White House sent a letter to federal agencies, instructing them to review the approximately $100m in contracts the government has awarded Harvard and "find alternative vendors" where possible.

In its campaign to pressure elite US colleges to make a wide range of policy changes, the administration of President Donald Trump has come down hardest on Harvard University. In what it’s framed as an initiative to fight campus antisemitism and enforce civil rights protections,