Posted on 05/26/2025 3:49:40 AM PDT by george76
President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted Harvard’s secrecy when it comes to the university’s large number of students from foreign countries.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to. Nobody told us that!
“We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming. We want those names and countries.
The president concluded: “Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!”
As WorldNetDaily reported, Harvard has sued the federal government to keep the privilege of enrolling foreign students, a lucrative source of revenue for the college as well, additionally, a path to international influence.
The Trump administration had revoked the school’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a dispute over Harvard’s decision to refuse to cooperate with the government on issues including student protests, anti-Semitism and even cooperation with China, explodes.
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The administration has explained Harvard has refused to comply with a list of demands sent to the school in April regarding student protests, many being anti-Israel and pro-Hamas, the anti-Semitism present on campus and allegations that the school has allowed infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party.
Republicans on the House Select Committee on China and the House Committee on Education and Workforce have begun investigating what links there may be between the school and the CCP.
Harvard, in the latest lawsuit it has brought against the Trump administration, is claiming the ending of its certification is a “blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act.”
A federal judge in Harvard’s back yard immediately came to the school’s aid, temporarily blocking the administration decision to cancel the program for foreign students.
The order came from Allison Burroughs, a judge in Boston.
The administration move left the campus in disarray only days before graduation this year, the school claimed, as foreign students now are deciding whether to transfer or risk staying, and possibly losing legal status to remain in the U.S.
A report from the Washington Examiner said Alan Garber, the school chief, claimed the withdrawal of the privilege of enrolling foreign students, “imperils the futures of thousands of students and scholars across Harvard and serves as a warning to countless others at colleges and universities throughout the country who have come to America to pursue their education and fulfill their dreams.”
The end of that certification, in fact, would mean many students at Harvard would have to transfer to another school. Estimates are that about one fourth of the student population there is foreign.
Harvard’s filing claimed, “It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”
The school also has lost an estimated $2.7 billion in government grants because of its agenda, following decisions byi federal officials with end those payments.
The foreign students are a lucrative source of cash for the school, which already has a $53 billion endowment.
The report said, “Most international students at Harvard pay full tuition, which is $59,320 for the 2024-25 academic year. Room and Board on campus and other mandatory fees amount to an additional $27,606 per student. The total for an international student to attend Harvard is $86,926 per year.”
WorldNetDaily reported when the decision to withdraw Harvard’s permission to enroll foreigners was announced.
The Department of Homeland Security said Harvard has created “an unsafe campus environment” by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus.
Homeland Security reports have confirmed how Jewish students report discrimination and bias on campus.
A Breitbart report elaborated on the new moves, explaining DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
“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.”
I’ve been bashing the Ivy League for decades.
I just connected the dots.
Although I got more against Yale than Harvard.
Yale has been the place where Deep Staters have been groomed and recruited.
Show me a Skull and Boner and I’ll show you a Deep State stooge.
McGeorge Bundy and the Bushes named George top that list.
Even a Bubba from Arkansas may not have made the Secret Society but he hooked up with those that did at places like Mena.
“””Does not each one of these students have to receive a visa? So be a lot more thorough on the background checks and the numbers coming in will go way down.”””
We have received your student visa application and are in the process of approving it. This should only take about 10 years or so. Thanks for your patience.
$ endowment ==$52 MILLION or is it really $52 BILLION?
$ endowment ==$52 MILLION or is it really $52 BILLION?
Google says BILLION
Absolutely. We don’t need higher education in America. Lower education is good enough.
Eight of those who signed the Declaration of Independence were Harvard graduates. My, how time has changed.
Trump’s people know EXACTLY who the Foreign Students are at Harvard, provided they have valid visas.
I suspect that Trump’s people are hearing Harvard say that they have 31% foreign students, yet Trump’s people cannot find nearly enough valid visas to match that number.
Read about Harvard Management Company.
Has to do with world manipulations.
Those NIH and NSF grants fund research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, ALS, mental diseases, etc.
They have already produced advances in medicine that we depend on today!
Stopping these grants means stopping medical progress, or conceding it to communist China! And we need foreign students to do some of the research and even to start American companies based on their research!
Sorry Trump—Harvard’s medical research is more important than “trade schools”!
My research-based PhD education at Harvard was funded by NSF and NIH. The NSF grant I received at Tufts resulted in two US patents in cancer immunotherapy!
And scientists are NOT the people at Harvard who make all the trouble there!
Harvard is enemy-occupied territory and has been for some 40 years and counting. Glad that someone is finally taking notice.
The report said, “Most international students at Harvard pay full tuition, which is $59,320 for the 2024-25 academic year. Room and Board on campus and other mandatory fees amount to an additional $27,606 per student. The total for an international student to attend Harvard is $86,926 per year.”International students subsidize DEI and administrative bloat.
Look into Harvard’s holding company and for profit
Harvard Management Company.
Fingers in every leftist international pie
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