Harvard sues Trump administration
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College officials fear that President Trump may use international enrollment as leverage to demand changes on campuses elsewhere.
The latest criticism from the Trump administration of Harvard University highlighted the number of international students entering the United States each year for higher education.
A federal judge in Boston on May 23, 2025, temporarily blocked a Trump administration order that would have revoked Harvard University’s authorization to enroll international students. The directive from the U.
“We saw that just with the spring sort of enrollment and intake, there was a 13% decline in enrollment of graduate students in the United States,” said Fanta Aw, CEO of NAFSA, Association of International Educators. “And we know the spring semester has a smaller intake. The majority of intake for universities are in the fall.”
The Trump administration is relying on an obscure bureaucratic lever to stop the school, the latest in a series of aggressive moves.