Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, April 17th.

Today on Forbes, 39 Trump-proof universities.

Quote, research powers progress is splashed in white text across the Harvard University homepage,

a tagline preceding a string of the Ivy League university's recent scientific

breakthroughs. Those breakthroughs include more effective treatments of clinical depression

and achievements in robotics helping stroke victims regain mobility. It's also a not-so-suttle

rebuke of the Trump administration's wide-ranging attack on university

research funding. Harvard made headlines Monday, when its president, Alan Garber, stood up against

the Trump administration, refusing to cave to demands that the university eliminate diversity

programs, curb student protest, and allow federal audits in exchange for its federal

funding. Garber's rejection of Trump's demands followed an announcement from federal agencies

that they would review $9 billion in funding for Harvard two weeks earlier. The Trump administration

swiftly hit back, freezing $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts for the university.

On Tuesday morning, Trump threatened to strip the university of its tax-exempt status via a post on Truth Social.

It's a dramatic loss of funding, but as Garber likely calculated,

Harvard can afford it. The 388-year-old university has a $53 billion endowment, the largest in the

world, a AAA debt rating, and relatively little reliance on federal support for its operations

compared to some of Harvard's

peers. While rare among America's thousands of colleges, Harvard is not alone. Forbes has identified

39 schools that have the revenue diversity and the financial strength, primarily in the form of a large

endowment, to resist the Trump administration's

demands to come to heal, which have been under the guise of combating anti-Semitism on campus.

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