Harvard Kennedy School Could Lose 60% of Student Body Without Ability to Enroll Foreign Students
“like the worst fear that international students had has suddenly become true”
Isn’t this kind of part of the problem with Harvard?
Foreign schools masquerading as American schools hardest hit. https://t.co/7EryBd7hUj
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) May 27, 2025
The Harvard Crimson reports:
In Trump’s Orders, Harvard’s Most International School Sees a Crisis
At the Harvard Kennedy School, the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to enroll international students — temporarily blocked in court — could eliminate nearly 60 percent of the student body.
HKS is Harvard’s most international school, and the proportion of international students there has grown over recent years, reaching a record high of 59 percent in 2024. The announcement that international students might have to transfer or face deportation sent shockwaves across the Kennedy School — as students feared being displaced and faculty worried that the Kennedy School’s identity as a global center for public policy scholarship could hang in the balance.
It’s “like the worst fear that international students had has suddenly become true,” said Magdalena Larreboure Donoso, a Chilean Ph.D. student studying environmental politics at HKS.
When Larreboure was admitted to the Kennedy School, she said, “I called my dad immediately, and then, like six minutes later, probably all of Chile knew that I got into Harvard.”
Now, she faces complete uncertainty over whether she’ll be able to continue her studies in the United States at all.
“There’s not much that we can do right now. There’s no planning that we can do to try to fend for ourselves,” Larreboure said. “This is something that will happen to the whole of Harvard or to no one.”
The mood at the Kennedy School is “pretty cataclysmic,” said Daniel I. Mellow, Laurreboure’s partner, who is studying for his master’s in public administration in international development at HKS.
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They asked two future government bureaucrats what they would do without government overreach and of course it was “cataclysmic”.
Kennedy school – where failed democrats go to die.
Shut it down!!!
No, it’s scarier:
“the Kennedy School’s identity as a global center for public policy scholarship”
It’s where students go to be molded into global Marxists.
Isn’t that chick’s rather Pinochet? /s
The problem is the school teaches foreign students far left stuff and that is what they take around the world with them.
Hey, I already thought it was a great idea. You don’t need to sell me further.