US blocks Harvard from enrolling foreign students
US President Donald Trump’s administration has halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students. International students at the university will be forced to transfer to another school or leave the country.PoliticsUnited States of America
US President Donald Trump’s administration has halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students. International students at the university will be forced to transfer to another school or leave the country.
Officials at Harvard called the US administration’s decision illegalImage: Faith Ninivaggi/REUTERS
The US Department of Homeland Security announced on Thursday that it revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.
Trump has expressed his anger over Harvard’s rejection of his demand that it submit to admissions and hiring oversight after he alleged the university was a center of antisemitism and “woke” ideology.
“Effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor (SEVIS) Program certification is revoked,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in a letter to the Ivy League institution that has produced 162 Nobel Prize winners.
“As I explained to you in my April letter, it is a privilege to enroll foreign students,” Noem wrote.
“As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies, you have lost this privilege,” she added.
Noem’s statement also said the steps taken against Harvard should “serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
