Washington (AP) – for students around the world, a letter of admission to Harvard University represents the top of the achievements, offering a place among the campus elite that produces Nobel Prize winners, industry captains and world leaders.
This lure is now in danger. In its strengthening the battle with the White Harve Harvard, it has been struck by its worst blow so far on Thursday, when the government has blocked the Ivy League School since the enrollment of foreign students. This move threatens to undermine Harvard growth, its revenue and its attractiveness among the best scientists in the world.
Even more than $ 2.6 billion to reduce research, the action of the administration is an existential threat to Harvard. The school summarized it in a case that seeks to block the action: “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard.”
Within hours after the decision, the consequences become clear. The princess of Belgium Elizabeth, who has just finished her first year in a Harvard graduate program, is waiting to find out if she can return next year, said the Royal Palace. The Chinese government publicly questioned whether Harvard’s international situation would endure.
“The relevant US actions will only harm their own image and international authenticity,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning at a Beijing briefing briefing.
Federal judge on Friday blocked the administration’s decision so far by issuing a restrictive order that stopped the government from downloading Harvard’s certification in the student and stock market visitors program. The program affiliation allows Harvard to host international students with visas to study in the United States, but the order is only temporary.
With a donation of $ 53 billion, Harvard has funds to withstand federal funding losses that would cripple other institutions. But this new sanction is at the heart of its campus.
The change is now disorder as thousands of students are considering transferring elsewhere or risk being illegal in the country. This may delete a quarter of the university’s common student body, while reducing some of their higher education institutions and threatening students who work as laboratory researchers and teaching assistants. Some sports teams will remain almost empty.
Still, future consequences are the largest threat. If the government’s actions stand, Harvard will be banned from recognizing new international students for at least two academic years. Even if it regains its place as a global magnet, the best students can deviate from fear of future government repression, the school said in its court case.
In his court file, Harvard listed some of his most notable graduates, who enrolled as foreign students. The list includes Benazir Bhuto, the former Pakistan Prime Minister; Ellen Johnson Sirlif, a former President of Liberia; Empress Masako of Japan; And many leaders of large corporations.
The university enrolled almost 6,800 foreign students on their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.
Students in India and China – nations who send more students to the United States than anyone else – waited for what follows. While foreigners who have to graduate from Harvard next week can still do so, other current students and university tied up in the fall weigh other options. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for one, he said on Friday that he will welcome international students already in Harvard and those who are accepted.
The action dominated the news in the world, said Mike Heniger, president and CEO of Illume Student Advisory Services, a company working with colleges in the US, Canada and Europe to recruit international students. He is currently traveling to Japan and wakes up on the news on Friday with dozens of colleagues.
The reactions of the international community, he said, were distrust: “” Amazing! “Oh my God!” “Unreal!”
For arriving freshmen, who were just accepted at Harvard – and already engaged – time cannot be worse, but they are so strong students that every top university in the world would like to offer them a place, he said.
“I think the bigger history is students across the country who are not a student in Harvard, the students who are scraped away to enter a State University and think,” Are we then? “, He said. “Harvard children will be fine. It is more about the damage of the US brand for education. The US view is a smaller place for international students.”
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Geker reported from San Francisco.
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