US EditionTrump administration blocks Harvard from enrolling international students
- On June 5, 2025, the Trump administration removed Harvard University's authorization to admit international students, impacting its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- This action followed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's April 16 request for extensive foreign student records amid allegations of Harvard's ties to the Chinese Communist Party and campus violence.
- Thousands of current foreign students, who make up more than a quarter of Harvard’s student body, must transfer or lose legal status, while the federal government also cut $2.6 billion in grants to Harvard.
- The administration accused Harvard of hosting Chinese paramilitary training as recently as 2024 and failing to protect Jewish students amid nationwide pro-Palestinian protests, claims Harvard denies as unlawful and retaliatory.
- Legal challenges restored student statuses nationwide and prompted injunctions blocking further terminations, while critics called the administration’s measures a harmful overreach threatening academic freedom and international student recruitment.
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Harvard Fight Illustrates Trump’s Worldview
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