Harvard Loses Ability to Enroll Foreign Students
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”
The Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
The Ivy League school cannot enroll foreign students. The foreign students enrolled at Harvard “must transfer or lose their legal status.”
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” stated Secretary Kristi Noem. “It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
DHS has already ended $2.7 million in grants for Harvard.
In April, Noem told Harvard to give the department “information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus.”
Noem told the university it would lose its SEVP certification if it did not comply.
Noem said Harvard’s counsel claimed he had the information for DHS, but did not.
The acting DHS general counsel gave Harvard another chance to hand out the required information, but it did not.
Harvard can regain its SEVP certification if it provides DHS with the requested information as listed in Noem’s letter:
1. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding illegal activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.
2. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding dangerous or violent activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.
3. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding threats to other students or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.
4. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding deprivation of rights of other classmates or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.
5. Any and all disciplinary records of all nonimmigrant students enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years.
6. Any and all audio or video footage, in the possession of Harvard University, of any protest activity involving a nonimmigrant student on a Harvard University campus in the last five years.
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ooo. Cutting them off from the highest paying customers.
Harvard is handling this all wrong. Escalating is the worst thing harvard could have done. They are getting used as trump’s punching bag. Should have said what trump wanted to hear, made some minimum gestures. Trump will be gone in 3.5 years anyway.
Good analysis and of course I agree with you. Down clicker is an idiot.
Just another example of the arrogance of harvard.
To continue I’m sure Harvard is acting this way because of excess pride. They are thinking we’re Harvard (and you’re not). We are tied into all administrations and have graduated tons of judges and the elites of the elite. One or more will put these peons in their place,
I’m kind of hoping no one will rescue them because they don’t want to get themselves dirty by association. This used to be called the tar baby effect but for some reason that’s now considered racist.
Harvard making bad situation worse for themselves. Just like they did with claudine gay debacle. Harvard didn’t learn much from that apparently.
One can teach them nothing because they are, after all, Harvard.
IDK…pain is a universally competent form of instruction.
You can always tell a Harvard man, you just can’t tell him much.
An old Boston saying…
As I’ve said about all these colleges the problems is their board of directors or whatever they call them. They are empowered to run the college, and they refuse to fix them. This is on the board:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Board_of_Overseers
but actually those (one is Canadian PM Carney are just advisors. It seems the college is owned by Harvard Corp and this is the governing board:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_and_Fellows_of_Harvard_College
Harvard thinks: “Presidents come and presidents go but WE are HARVARD.”
Hmmm right now I don’t think that it’s 3.5 years of famine ahead but more than 7 years.
Even with a $58B endowment, losing 1/3 of your customers and multi-millions in government funding for 7 years is going to leave a mark. I’d also note that they are going to lose a large number of their researchers because they will depart to seek funding elsewhere. True, Harvard has enough money to fund it all themselves but I don’t think they would. After all, how much of that $58B is liquid?
Yep. They should have kept their head down, done just enough to keep the foot off their throat, tried to weather the storm and hope the next Admin pulls back. Instead they couldn’t help but be arrogantly defiant which is insane considering they just got slapped around for their racist admission policies and made a bad situation worse.
But Trump is being really intrusive. That’s a good thing. To reveal this information would actually hurt Harvard and make them vulnerable, but the alternative is that we revoke many privileges from it.
Harvard made some “minimum” gestures and even more than that, but they didn’t do all of what they were told because the questions were specific and cut to the heart of many matters Harvard wants to gloss over. Trump isn’t giving them a pass, and it’s wonderful.
#47 will be gone in 3. 5 years, yet. Replaced most likely by whom? J.D. Vance, for a likely two-term tenure.
So, yes, Harvard’s arrogant doubling-down on Jew-hating, Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist enabling, kowtowing and assorted subversive/belligerent antics is the dumbest thing this unrepentant sewer of a university can do.
Not sure JD Vance is strongly against Jew-hating. He’s more neutral about it I guess. I doubt he would punish Harvard this way.
For that matter, Rubio is looking like a more credible candidate for the top of the ticket. Vance talks real well but his Senate experience was short, and ideologically I think Rubio is closer to Trump. Rubio has long Senate experience and is now hitting it out of the park in a very senior cabinet role. Rubio doesn’t make as many jokes, but he says just the right thing to hostile interviewers too. Have we ever had a SOS advance to president?
And then there’s that other very qualified Floridian who is being termed out as a very successful governor, DeSantis.
And this is assuming the leftists don’t manage an “awakening” and flip the whole thing to the left.
Wow, oh hell yes!!!
Best President ….
EVER
Love it. Big body blow. I wonder if Harvard is getting woozy yet?
That one’s gonna hurt!
Although I suspect they are judge shopping for their law suit as we type here!
Temporary stay by a tame judge granted in 5 … 4 … 3 …
🎯Sad, but undeniably true.
That’s why their SEVP certification was already revoked. Not threatened, but actually done. That way a judge can’t make an injunction against it, and it’s pretty obvious a judge cannot force the administration to grant SEVP certification where it no longer exists.
If Harvard wants to sue for their SEVP certification, they can do so. But I doubt it could be fast-tracked enough that Harvard wouldn’t be severely disrupted for at least a year or two, even if they won. Now the process is the punishment, but Harvard is on the outside looking in.
“This morning, the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge buckled and collapsed under the combined weight of 2,042 Massachusetts judges in their Audi E-Trons, rushing into Cambridge to be chosen to issue injunctions on behalf of Harvard University…”
Zero. Granted. But (1) of course the judge exceeds authority and it is being appealed, and (2) the judge can’t force the State Department to issues visas this summer to the foreigners Harvard just admitted to its freshman class. Harvard had better hurry up and start admitting Americans off its wait list for those spots.
The left never admits error. Harvard will sue because they can’t even imagine being in the wrong.
They might even win. The judiciary is that corrupt.
Hey, we saw it at Oberlin.
I’m sure Harvard will get a judge to issue an injunction against DHS. Eventually Trump will have to defy the courts otherwise, they are going to block his every move. Unless something stops them we will be living in a judicial dictatorship.
This is a big blow to Harvard as the foreigners are a big source of revenue. I read somewhere that half the students at Columbia in NYC are foreign. Hard to believe so this needs checking. Victor Davis Hanson also says that China has 360,000 students in the US, and some of them of are spies. Why should we provide technical knowledge to a foreign adversary who could use it to wage war on us? Moreover American students should not have to compete with foreigners for admission to American universities.
If Harvard cannot stop DHS through the courts, then they will cheat as the University of California cheats to subvert propositions that forbid race-based admissions. Harvard and other top tier universities think that they are so morally superior to the rest of us, that they don’t have to conform to the law.
How top tier is Harvard anyway if some of their students need remedial algebra? I started algebra in the 7th grade. I had advanced mathematics in every grade in high school. We were doing matrix algebra and advanced stuff in the senior year.
This action by DHS is a very big deal. Get for for the fireworks. They will go completely nuts.
But Harvard’s SEVP certification is already revoked. An injunction won’t work anymore. 🙂
Trump fired people. That was done, yet courts demanded they be un-fired.
Happening again today with Dept. of Ed, demanding rehire. But I think that will get laughed out on appeal as the language of the injunction is that it will harm the education of students, while Trump says it is making the department more efficient and improving it. Presumptively Trump should win that. But it would have been easier before Chevron deference was overturned.
That was unfortunate. Presumably Trump could fire people much more easily if his agencies were presumed to have the best expertise in their fields i.e. Chevron deference. We had to allow Chevron deference as lefty presidents bulked up the agencies and expanded their reach. Now it’s just been revoked as Trump wants to slim them back down.
I love Gorsuch but this timing just makes saving the country harder.
Some stupid Mass hole judge will just block this now too. I doubt Harvard will face any real consequences for their indoctrination campaign they call higher learning.
Next step is withdraw permission to hire non US Citizens and non Green Card holders. Drop that on them in 30 days if they are still intransigent. 30 days after that revoke Student ability to use Federally subsidized loans, GI Bill and Pell Grant. Go ahead and put that into public so foreign faculty and all students can figure out a backup plan.
“ a backup plan”
Transfer to Oberlin?
The ex-Harvard foreign students can transfer to Oberlin.
The laid off Harvard faculty can “learn to bake” and make a living serving yummy Gibson’s pastries to their former students.
I can dream, right?
Or a JR College considering the very short timeline to beginning of Fall Semester. The Foreign Students/Faculty would lose their Visa and have to exit the USA if they didn’t get another Univ to accept them.
what real reason would/does harvard and the rest of these multi $$$$$$$$institutions have to try and defeat america??
the money flows and has and will flow to them unabated
so why would they risk it ??
they’d have to have some underlying agenda to say
we’re here in america the best country everrrrrr to exist but we believe its in our best interest to destroy america
Hatred. That’s the reason. They literally hate the country that puts food in their table so will happily side with terrorists to satisfy that hatred.
Harvard is not the worst offender but the highest profile one which I’m sure is why the Administration is going after them first. The other schools in the Ivy league and beyond that rely on a greater percentage of their budget being paid by federal dollars and foreign students are watching with great interest I would think. I wonder if there are any sane heads left running anything at those hotbeds of anti Semitism that will finally step up in the face of devastating financial losses or if the faculty will prevail. Hard to see how as faculty screeching protest chic is hard to do without a job or platform.
Georgetown U. is also a high-profile, repeat offender in recruiting genocidal, Jew-hating, Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists as students. They’ve also taken tankers worth of bloodstained, filthy lucre from the duplicitous and evil Qatari regime.
I saw former president (whom the lefty faculty chased out for suggesting the most gifted mathematicians are usually men) Larry Summers response to this calling it illegal, wrong, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uci_UqT-R4o
He’s all over the place.
He doesn’t say why it’s illegal.
He says why punish these talented foreigners? I say why not reward talented Americans?
He says in WW2 we won because of talented foreigners who came here and developed radar and the A-bomb. Larry, being Jewish himself, knows tho foreigners were mostly Jews and they were famously down the road a mile and a half at MIT, not Harvard. And he’s not doing much for their cause by sticking up for antisemitic Harvard at this moment.
Yep, a judge has tried to block it. But at least I don’t think the judge can force Rubio to issue visas to Harvard’s incoming class of foreign students, undergrad or graduate. Foreign students visas are usually issued over the summer i.e. not issued yet.