Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says Trump is considering to broaden his ban on Harvard enrolling international students to other universities as well in an escalating row with the academic world about antisemitism and pro-CCP currents.
Trump today revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, effective immediately.
This action, led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, terminated Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification, which allows universities to issue F-1 and J-1 visas for foreign students.
As a result, Harvard can no longer admit new international students, and its nearly 6,800 current international students—comprising about 27% of its student body—must transfer to other institutions or risk losing their legal status in the U.S.
The decision stems from an ongoing dispute between the Trump administration and Harvard, primarily over allegations that the university fosters antisemitism, violence, and anti-Americanism on campus, as well as claims of coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.
Update: HHS’s Civil Rights Office (@HHSOCR) finds that @Columbia violated Title VI “by acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students”.
Wouldn’t be a bad idea for Canada. Start with the U of Toronto.
UofT, York University, RyeHigh (otherwise known and Toronto Metropolitan University), George Brown College, Humber College, Seneca College, McMaster U, McGill U…
U of Montreal
Good news!
27% of their student Body is foreigners!? I was SHOCKED to read that statistic. Harvard in on an arc to become a “global” University. Fine. You wanna become an “International” University? Go relocate in Beijing or Brussels. Get OUT of the USA.
Gooooooooo Trump 2.0 !!!!!
27% is a pretty big chunk to lose for a business. They are going to lose their shit too.
Kristi Noem’s claim that this is about “antisemitism and pro-CCP currents” has as much merit as
her definition of habeas corpus.
Rather, it’s a major part of the culture wars and the makeover of American institutions by the Trumpists:
// In a 2021 speech entitled ‘The Universities are the enemy,’
Vice President JD Vance laid out a plan for America’s universities
“There was a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said approximately 40, 50 years ago, the professors are the enemy.
Because I think if any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country and for the people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” //
In the Party it goes back to Reagan & the abolition of free tuition:
In 1970, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan —
spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counterattack was aimed at preventing:
“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite!
We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.
If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people:”
The two most menacing institutional sources of the danger described by Freeman were obviously
those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York.
Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California
https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1562521561118429187
Flatten Hamas. Flatten Hezbollah. Flatten the Houthis. Flatten Iran.
This is what you’ve voted for … repeatedly. You ARE Hamas. You ARE Hezbollah. You ARE the Houthis. You ARE Iran’s Mullahs. You chose this cult of death … so you MUST DIE. Your choice, not mine.
There, there.
Safe journeys to Gaza … to fight the good fight against the Joos. Good luck
It’s not about Gaza, Kenji. The Trumpists hate the universities because they are sources of
dangerous ideas.
https://bryanalexander.org/politics/the-professors-are-the-enemy-j-d-vance-on-higher-education/
Not just “wokeness” or DEI; a major enemy is science:
Try following Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which has just had its offices closed:
https://bsky.app/profile/climateofgavin.bsky.social
The dangerous ideas at issue are Climate Science
When will a politician say “this is Canada, we don’t care about this stupid shit you do in the Middle East, and we don’t want it here, period.”? “The next asshole that blocks an ambulance will spend the rest of his life in court.”