Trump’s government threatened Harvard by banning foreign students if it does not prove to meet government requirements.
The government of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened the prestigious Harvard University by banning foreign students, unless the institution agrees with government requirements. TASR reports on this based on Reuters and AFP reports.
“If Harvard is unable to prove that it fully meets its reporting requirements, the university will lose the right to receive foreign students,” said the Ministry of Home Security, which asks the institution to record “illegal and violent activities” of its foreign students. The well -known University has recently rejected Trump’s demands to undergo political supervision over the admission of new students and employees or its political orientation.
Independence negotiations
University Rector Alan Garber said that the university refuses to “negotiate its independence or constitutional rights”. According to Trump’s administration, US universities suffer from “uncontrollable anti -Semitism” and should abolish their diversites for supporting students belonging to minorities. The reason is last year’s protests at many universities against the war of Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The American media CNN and The Washington Post have reported that government representatives are considering taking the status of tax -exempt institutions. This week, Trump also ordered free to freeze the $ 2.2 billion federal contribution for a leading research institution. The President said on Wednesday that this university is laughing.
The abilities of foreign students
“Harvard can no longer be considered a dignified place for education and should not be included in any list of the best universities or universities of the world. Harvard is laughing, teaching hatred and stupidity and should no longer receive public finances,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social.
Foreign students this academic year accounted for 27.2 percent of successful applicants. According to Republicans, American universities are “too liberal”, suppress right -wing minds and prefer dark skin students over white men. The graduates of the oldest university in the United States include up to 162 Nobel Prize winners.
