Washington (AP) – A reception letter from the world to Harvard University was represented by the peak of achievements, offering a place among the Elite University town, where the Nobel Prize winners, industry captains and world leaders.
That seduction now poses a danger. In its intensifying fight against the White House, Harvard was hit the hardest blow back on Thursday, when the government blocked Ivy League school to enter foreign students. This step threatens to harm Harvard’s height, its income and attractiveness among the best scientists around the world.
Even more than the government’s $ 2.6 billion research, the administration’s actions pose an existential threat to Harvard. The school summarized it in a lawsuit to prevent action: “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”
The consequences of the decision have become clear within a few hours of the decision. Belgian Princess Elisabeth, who has just finished her first year in the Harvard graduate program, is waiting to find out if she can return next year, the Royal Palace said. The Chinese government has publicly questioned whether Harvard’s international situation would endure.
“The relevant actions of the US side will only ruin their image and international reliability,” said Mao Ning, a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at the briefing in Beijing.
The federal judge blocked the administration’s decision on Friday by announcing a constraint that prevents the government from attracting Harvard Certificate Students and Exchange Visitors. Belonging the program allows Harvard to admit international students with visas, to study in the US, but the order is only temporary.
With a $ 53 billion fund, Harvard has steps to cancel the federal funding loss that would damage other institutions. However, this new sanction is caught by its university campus.
Already, the amendment is already causing strife, as thousands of students are considering transferring the opportunity to pass elsewhere or risk being illegally in the country. This could destroy a quarter of the university’s students’ body while reducing some of its graduates and threatening students working as laboratory researchers and training assistants. Some sports teams remained almost empty.
However, future consequences are the greatest threat. If the government’s actions take, Harvard would be prohibited from recognizing new international students at least two school years. Even if she regains her place as a global magnet, the best students can avoid fearing future backlands, the school said in its application.
In his court application, Harvard listed some of its most prominent graduates who entered foreign students. The list includes Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistan Prime Minister; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia; Empress Masako from Japan; and many major corporation leaders.
The University admits nearly 6,800 foreign students in its town in Cambridge, the state of Massachusetts, near Boston.
Indian and Chinese students – nations who send more students to the US than any other – waited for what would happen next. Although foreigners end Harvard next week, the rest of the current students and those who have come together in the fall in the fall, weighed other opportunities. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one, said Friday that he would congratulate international students in Harvard and those who were admitted.
The action has dominated the news around the world, said Mike Henniger, President and CEO of the Illume Student Advisory Services, a company working with US, Canadian and European colleges. He is currently traveling in Japan and woke up to the news with dozens of colleagues on Friday. Emails.
According to him, the reactions of the international community were incredible: “Incredible!” “Oh God!” “Non -inal!”
For the upcoming freshmen who have just been taken to Harvard – and already devoted, time could not be worse, but they are such strong students that any world’s tallest university would like to offer them, he said.
“I think a bigger story is students across the country who are not a Harvard student, students who sounded a state university and think, ‘Are we nearby?’ This is more about harm to the American education brand. The US image is a less hospitable place for international students. “
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Gecker reported from San Francisco.
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