“PRIDE AND APPROVAL”
There also remained “this spectre of other actions” the government could take to block Harvard from having international students, she added.
The Ivy League institution has continually drawn Trump’s ire while publicly rejecting his administration’s repeated demands to give up control of recruitment, curricula and research choices.
“Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect, and all they’re doing is getting in deeper and deeper,” Trump said Wednesday.
Harvard president Alan Garber got a huge cheer Thursday when he mentioned international students attending the graduation with their families, saying it was “as it should be” – but Garber did not mention the Trump fight directly.
He received a standing ovation, which one student told AFP was “revealing of the community’s pride and approval.”
Garber has led the legal fightback in US academia after Trump targeted several prestigious universities, including Columbia, which made sweeping concessions to the administration, hoping to claw back US$400 million of withdrawn federal grants.
He has acknowledged that Harvard does have issues with antisemitism and that it has struggled to ensure that a variety of views can be safely heard on campus.
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