Trump, Harvard and foreign countries
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President Trump is putting pressure on US universities. The elite university Harvard is resisting, but now Washington has threatened to block it from enrolling foreign students. Can Harvard continue to hold out?
Harvard is the first school to sue the administration after a back-and-forth between President Alan Garber and most of Trump's team.
"It would be devastating," a former president of Harvard — and frequent critic of the university — said of the government's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
Well, let's shift our focus here and talk about Donald Trump's fight with Harvard University, because, yesterday, the Trump administration, as you both know, took the extraordinary step of blocking international students from attending Harvard.
Dr. Jeremy Faust spilled on the words he "never thought" he'd tell someone who considered going to graduate school at the Ivy League institution.
If Trump succeeds in crushing Harvard, all other American institutions of learning, science and humanities will be at risk,' writes an L.A. Times reader.