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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students, including current ones
Education May 22, 2025 5:20 PM EDT
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/trump-administration-bars-harvard-from-enrolling-foreign-students-including-current-ones
Noem’s sanction opens a new front in the Trump administration’s battle with Harvard. The nation’s oldest and wealthiest university
, Harvard was the first to openly defy White House demands to limit pro-Palestinian protests and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
The federal government has responded by cutting $2.6 billion in federal grants at Harvard, forcing it to self-fund much of its sprawling research operation. President Donald Trump has said he wants to strip the university of its tax-exempt status.
Many of Harvard’s punishments have come through a federal antisemitism task force that says the university failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence amid a nationwide wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
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It also tapped into concerns that congressional Republicans have raised about ties between U.S. universities and China.
Homeland Security officials said Harvard provided training to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps as recently as 2024.
As evidence, it provided a link to a Fox News article which in turn cited a letter from House Republicans.
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The Trump administration has leveraged the system for tracking international students’ legal status as part of its broader attempts to crack down on higher education. What was once a largely administrative database has become a tool of enforcement, as immigration officials revoked students’ legal status directly in the system.
Those efforts were challenged in court, leading to restorations of status and a nationwide injunction blocking the administration from pursuing further terminations.
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