Trump’s administration told Harvard University that she could not enroll in international students and bring a big blow to school after the government has stiffened billions of dollars of federal financing and escalated its struggle with elite universities to an unprecedented level.
The US canceled the certification of Harvard’s certification of students and exchange visitors, which means that the school can no longer register foreign students. Existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal position, the Ministry of Internal Security said in its statement on Thursday.
“Harvard’s leadership has created a dangerous campus environment by allowing anti-American pro-terrorist agittors to harass and physically attack individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise prevent their once during the normal educational environment,” the statement said. The department also accused Harvard’s leadership coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.
Harvard replied that the government was unlawful.
“We are fully determined to maintain Harvard’s ability to host foreign students and scientists who come from more than 140 countries and enrich the university – and this nation – extremely,” the spokesman said in his statement. “We are working quickly to provide instructions and support to members of our community.”
In April, the Minister of Internal Security demanded that Harvard presented records of any violent or illegal activities of foreign students within 30 April or immediately lost certification as part of the Federal Government student visa program. At Harvard, nearly 6,800 students – 27% of the whole student body – come from other countries, from 19.6% in 2006, according to the university data.
“This administration holds Harvard responsible for supporting violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on his campus,” Noem said on Thursday. “It is a privilege, not the right, to register foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition fees to help their foundations worth several million dollars.”
The blockade on the international registration of students will put financial pressure on Harvard. While Trump’s administration limited research funding and criticized the efforts to diversity in other schools, no university was so hard to hit by pressure as Harvard.
The school sued several American agencies for blocking Federal Funds after the government demanded that it to remake its administration, transform the acceptance and hiring of faculties, ceased to admit foreign students to US values and promote the diversity of the point of view.
Trump also demanded that the institution to lose the status exempt from tax, a step that would have a warned school based in Massachusetts, which would have “serious consequences for the future of higher education in America”.
Harvard, the oldest and richest American university, appeared as the goal of the White House when the government carried out a campaign for a major remodeling of the elite universities of the nation. Schools became a lightning rod for criticism after the Protestinian student protests broke out after 7 October 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and retaliatory reaction of the Jewish state in Gaza. While Trump’s administration said that she was trying to take root of anti -Semitism, she has expanded his attacks on the initiatives of diversity and left -wing distortion.
Harvard President Alan Garber pushed back and said he “would not give up his independence or constitutional rights”. Garber, who is Jewish, has long claimed that Harvard will cooperate with the government in the fight against anti -Semitism – something he recognizes is a problem on the campus – but that the White House requires threat to academic freedom.
The New York Times first announced a government event for foreign students.
This event continues to attack Trump’s administration on freedom of expression and autonomy of the university, said Robert Shireman, former Deputy Deputy Education in Obama Administration, who is now a senior Century Foundation.
“International scientists bring huge benefits,” Shireman said. “This is a harmful attempt to cool down the exchange of ideas, instead to store a centralized control of a scientific and historical study.”
