War seems to have launched the Donald Trump against him Harvard Universityas after the end of the grants it became known that it has recalled the university to accept foreign students for the academic year 2025 – 2026.
Thousands of students will be forced to transfer to another Harvard University, while the Donald Trump government threatened to extend the measure to other educational institutions. Interior Security Minister Christie Noem has requested that the Certification of the Harvard University of Harvard University’s (SEVIS) program for the academic year 2025-26 be canceled.
Noem accused the well -known US University of “submitting violence, anti -Semitism and that tuned with the Chinese Communist Partyยป.
Harvard replied that this move by the Trump government – which affects thousands of students – is illegal and is equivalent to retaliation.
Yesterday’s decision is a significant escalation in the confrontation between the Republican government and the renowned university, which has emerged as one of Trump’s main goals, and was taken after Harvard He refused to give the Ministry of Home Affairs the information he requested about his foreign students.
6.800 foreign students in the past year
The academic year 2024-25 attended Harvard almost 6.800 foreign students, which corresponded to 27% of the total number of students, according to the University.
In 2022 the Chinese were the largest group of foreign students – 1,016 – in Harvard. Students from Canada, India, South Korea, Britain, Germany, Australia, Singapore and Japan followed.
“It is a privilege and not the right for universities to accept foreign students and benefit from the highest tuition fees,” Noem said.
In a letter to the university, the US minister gave him a “opportunity” to restore his certification if he handed over the information to him for the next 72 hours the information requested for the ‘Illegal’ activity of its foreign studentsincluding videos or audio from any involvement in mobilizations over the past 5 years.
In her letter, Noe accuses Harvard of “perpetuating a dangerous environment in the campus, hostile to Jewish students, encouraging the sympathy for Hamas and implements racist policies ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’.
As the US minister pointed out, foreign students who have already enrolled in Harvard They should be “transferred” to another university, as they will otherwise lose their visa.
Vindictive behavior and retaliation
Harvard described the US government’s energy as “illegal” and stressed that it remains “fully committed” to the training of foreign students.
“This revenge threatens to cause serious harm to the Harvard community and our country and undermines Harvard’s academic and scientific mission,” the university said in a statement.
“This decision (…) is the most recent of a series of measures retaliation and blatant authoritarianism to the detriment of The older US Higher Education Foundation, “the American Union of University Teachers (AAUP) complained. “The Trump government is illegally seeking to destroy higher education in the US,” he added.
The Republican has already frozen in recent weeks federal grants totaling $ 3 billion for Harvard.
In an interview with Fox News, NEE was asked if she was considering taking similar measures at the expense of other US universities, including Columbia.
“Of course and yes,” he replied. “This should be a warning for all universities to behave properly,” the minister said.
After taking over the presidency in January, the Republican president has sought to use federal funding for research to make changes to university education in the US, in which he claims to have prevailed anti -American, Marxist and Marxist ideologies.
Trump has accused Harvard of still taking into account ethnicity when examining applications for the introduction of students, and allowing him to discriminate against Jews, as a result of the Philosopher Student Movement that broke out last year in American campuses.
In this context, his government has recalled student visas and green cards of aliens who They participated in Philopalaistine mobilizations.
The US Department of Health and Human Services announced on Monday that it is ending federal grants of $ 60 million to Harvard, accusing him of failing to face anti -Semitic harassment and discrimination on his campus.
The well -known university, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump government for its decision to stop sponsorships, stressing that it is committed to dealing with anti -Semitism and has taken steps to ensure that its campuses and campuses.