Harvard University President Alan Garber said, “Sure, it hurts Harvard but it hurts the country because the research funding is not a gift, and that is what high-priority work is.” “There are a lot of discoveries made by Harvard and other universities about cancer and treatments of the disease,” he added. He further said that institutions should be “firm in their positions”.
A Harvard University presidential commission has said that the university is a “problem of the 21st century” due to the prevalence of international students. The commission’s statement said, “Different factions at Harvard have fought to force different university leaders to make statements, invest, divest, hire…fire, doxx, un-doxx, discipline Students and undiscipline them.” It added that it’s ready to welcome affected students.
The US government has revoked the ability of Harvard University to enroll international students. This follows a lawsuit filed by Harvard, which alleged that the Trump administration had sought to stop the university from enrolling international students. Harvard said it relied on nearly 7,000 international students from more than 140 countries to come to its campuses.
The US is removing Harvard University’s varsity sports team from its list of international student visas amid the ongoing protests against Donald Trump. Earlier, the US government asked Harvard to turn over information about its international students, including their “known illegal activities”, “known dangerous or violent activity”, and “known deprivation of rights of other classmates or university personnel”.
The world’s largest frog, the Frog, will give the keynote address at the graduation ceremony of the University of Maryland on April 30. “I am thrilled that our graduates…will experience the optimism…of the world-renowned the Frog at such a meaningful time in their lives,” the university president said. “Rather than jumping over someone to get what you wanted, consider reaching out your hand,” the Frog said.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a case on whether the St Isidore of Seville school, which is a publicly funded Catholic school, should be a charter school. Challenging Oklahoma’s non-religious requirement to establish a publicly funded Catholic school, two Catholic dioceses in Oklahoma tried to establish a public school as a charter school.