The Trump administration escalated its feud with Harvard on Thursday, halting the university’s ability to enrol international students and ordering existing international students at the university to transfer or lose their legal status.
Homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, accused Harvard of “fostering violence, antisemitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist party on its campus”.
Pippa Norris, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, told the Guardian the move would “benefit Oxford and Cambridge and many other academic institutions … America, again, is going to have problems as a result.”
Previously, the Trump administration terminated a further $450m in grants to the university in May, after an earlier cancellation of $2.2bn in federal funding. In response to the federal cuts, the university – with an endowment of more than $53bn – filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
