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Over 400 students from across Africa are currently attending the university.
Several hundred people gathered at Harvard University recently to protest against President Donald Trump’s attacks on the prestigious institution. The demonstration took place days after his administration revoked the university’s certification, allowing it to enrol international students.
The government last week told Harvard’s thousands of current foreign students that they must transfer to other schools or they will lose their legal permission to be in the country.
With foreign scholars making up roughly 27 per cent of the institution’s total enrolment, it has also unsettled current and prospective students from around the world. Despite a federal judge’s temporary block on the order revoking foreign student enrollment, their future at the school remains uncertain.
Ryan Enos, a professor of government and the Director of the Centre for American Political Studies at Harvard, said freedom of speech and due process form the foundations of the American system.
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The Department of Homeland Security took this latest step because it said Harvard had failed to comply fully with requests to produce records about its foreign students. It has accused the university of “perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ policies. ‘The US government has already terminated nearly $3 billion in federal research grants to the university. Over 400 students from across Africa are currently attending the university.
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