In order to improve access for American students, US President Trump stated on Wednesday that Harvard University may decrease its enrollment to about 15 %. This comes in response to the administration’s new decisions to halt federal funding and obstruct Harvard’s ability to accept students from other countries. I believe there should be a cap of perhaps 15 %, never 31 %. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House,” We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools, but ] they can’t get in because we have foreign students there.” The Trump administration frozen$ 2.2 billion in federal funding for Harvard next month. Additionally, it temporarily halted the school’s ability to accept international students next year. Following Harvard leaders ‘ failure to comply with government requests to report racist incidents and share lists of international students with federal officials, these actions were taken. Trump remarked,” Harvard is treating our land with wonderful disrespect.” Trump also suggested shifting federal money apart from Harvard and giving it to business schools. For the 2024-2025 academic year, Harvard has reported that 27.2 percent of its student system is global. They are giving out$ 5 billion, and I prefer to see that money go to trade schools. And by the way, in all justice to them, they’re completely racist at Harvard, as you know, and at some different schools, too, and it’s been exposed, quite exposed,” Trump said.
They each lose an additional$ 250 million every time they fight. We discovered an additional$ 100 million yesterday. And they do, you know, have a account, an investment, which is$ 52 billion, right? They received a lot of that from the US. Trump continued,” Everyone is coming up to me and says,” We love the idea of industry colleges, with that kind of money, you can have the best business schools anywhere in the world,” calling Harvard a center for democracy and hatred. The university sued on April 21 over the president’s requests for modifications to the school’s leadership, management, and admissions policies. Since then, the administration has threatened the school’s tax-exempt status, threatened its foreign students ‘ admission, and cut back its federal funding.
