President Donald Trump on Wednesday (May 28) called on the University of Harvard to reduce the number of foreign students who allow 15%. Trump talked to reporters in an oval office and criticized the Ivy League institution for what he described as disrespect for the United States.
“Harvard has to behave. Harvard treats our country with great disrespect and everything they do is deeper and deeper,” Trump told reporters in the White House.
“I think they should have a limitation of about 15%, not 31%,” Trump said. “We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools, they can’t get in because we have foreign students there.”
“I want to make sure that foreign students are people who can love our country,” Trump said
Call publishing a list of foreign students
Together with the proposed cap, Trump demanded that Harvard to provide a list of the current foreign student body. This step is part of the wider control of immigration and foreign impact on American universities.
The President’s remarks come in the middle of the ongoing debates about the role and impact of the activism of international students in American university institutions.
Trump draws comparison with Columbia
Trump escalated his confrontation with Harvard University, accused the institution of disrespect to Earth and allocated it as an outbreak of anti-Semitism associated with anti-Israeli protests. Trump, however, appreciated Columbia University for cooperation, although he also called it “very, very bad”.
“Harvard must understand that the last thing I want to do is hurt. They hurt. They fight,” Trump said. “Columbia was very, very bad – what they did are very anti -Semitic and many other things – but they work with us to find a solution.”
Federal financing frozen, followed by a legal fight
Harvard has become the primary goal in Trump’s campaign against elite academic institutions. His administration froze over $ 2.6 billion in federal research financing allocated to the university. And Harvard filed a lawsuit and secured a temporary court order blocking the step of the administration to ban foreign students.
Trump’s team is also working on canceling all the remaining federal contracts with the university.
Status dei and exemption from tax also under fire
In addition to financing and registration problems, Trump’s administration focused on Harvard’s diversity programs, equity and inclusion (Dei) and claimed to support left -wing bias and contribute to the polarization of the campus. Trump also proposed to remove Harvard about his tax -exempt status, which would bring serious financial consequences for a university with a foundation of $ 53 billion.
Wider intervention against higher ED institutions
Trump’s actions against Harvard are part of a wider pressure to transform American university education, especially as a result of protests in the campus over the Israeli War in Gaza. The administration officials framed their interventions as an effort to take rooting anti -Semitism and the forces of reforms in receiving, hiring and policy of speech speech.
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