Alyssa Nadworny
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Alison Adwarney, NPR News, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In court documents, Harvard's attorneys argue the federal funding cuts imposed by the Trump administration threaten vital research in medicine, science, and technology.
The school's lawsuit aims to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding, quote, as leverage to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard, unquote.
The government said it froze the funding because Harvard violated federal civil rights law by failing to address anti-Semitism on campus, and that federal money is a privilege, not an entitlement.
Alyssa Nadwini, NPR News.
A fifty percent tariff will kill that market.
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While lawyers from Harvard and the Trump administration were in a packed courtroom in Boston on Thursday, the federal judge, Alison D. Burroughs, voiced concerns that the government was attempting to prevent foreign students from enrolling despite her earlier order blocking the administration's planned actions.
The Trump administration argues that Harvard has violated students' civil rights, including failing to protect Jewish students on campus and using racial discrimination in admissions, and that banning the school from enrolling international students is warranted.
After the judge's order, the White House told NPR that the Trump administration, not judges, should decide if universities can issue student visas. Now, Harvard argues that the administration's actions are retribution, that President Trump is singling out Harvard and violating its First Amendment rights. And... So the case is ongoing for now. Nothing changes for Harvard's international students.
Well, Harvard has nearly 7,000 international students. It's about a quarter of the entire student body. Many of them were at Harvard's graduation ceremony, which was actually happening at the same time as the hearing yesterday. During the commencement, President Alan Garber addressed the graduates with a nod to the ongoing lawsuit.
Now, the audience gave him a standing ovation for that line. I've been in touch with Ella Rickett. She's a first-year student from Canada studying at Harvard, and she's hesitant to call this order a victory.
Exactly. You know, there are more than a million international students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities, from community college to regional publics to Ivy League. India sends the most students to the U.S., followed by China. And, Steve, these students bring about $43 billion to the U.S. economy every year. Wow. University leaders are worried, obviously.
And a lot have told me that international applications are down compared to last year.
So Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the department would work to, quote, aggressively revoke visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Now, Steve, it is worth reminding listeners that in Trump's first administration back in 2020, officials canceled visas of more than a thousand Chinese graduate students and researchers because they had direct ties to military universities in China. So it's a familiar move in the Trump foreign policy playbook.
So on Thursday, Kristi Noem, the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, sent a letter to Harvard saying the administration is terminating Harvard student exchange certification, which means the school can no longer sponsor student visas. That prevents Harvard from enrolling new students and pulls the rug out from under currently enrolled students.
In a statement, Noem says the administration is holding Harvard accountable for, quote, fostering violence and anti-Semitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party. She encouraged current students to transfer.
So they were swift in filing a new lawsuit. In it, they accused the Trump administration of retaliating against Harvard for exercising its First Amendment rights. In a letter to campus, Harvard's president, Alan Garber, called the action unwarranted and said it imperils the future of thousands of scholars.
Harvard is already suing the Trump administration over research funding cuts related to accusations of anti-Semitism on campus. That trial is set to start in July.
Well, the university has nearly 7,000 international students, roughly one-fourth of the student body. We spoke to several of them. One senior from Canada told us she's worried about whether she'll be able to graduate next week. The students we talked to asked not to be named because they fear retaliation from the U.S. government for speaking out.
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