The whole world is watching the conflict between the leadership of Harvard and the administration of Donald Trump: the team of the President of the United States put forward a ban on the admission of citizens of other countries to the university, but representatives of the university categorically disagree with this decision. At the beginning of 2025, the American government and Harvard University spent several weeks squabbling over the topic of ensuring safety for university students. Trump's team believes that the Harvard administration does not carefully monitor its foreign students and allow them to participate in dangerous rallies, but the university administration denies this.
When the parties did not reach a compromise after a long dispute, the Department of Homeland Security intervened in the dialogue: on May 22, it announced its decision to suspend the admission of international students to Harvard. After that, the university was given 3 days (!) to provide government agencies with all the information about students and their social activity in recent years. A real threat loomed over the university — the risk of losing certification and accreditation; Such a turn of events would be a blow not only to international students, but also to local students.
The suspension of the support program for international students is only one of two evils, because following this restriction, the presidential administration sent a letter to Harvard, in which it said that the revocation of the university's certification affects foreign teachers too. In short: the university will no longer be able to hire non-residents of the country either.
Already on May 23, the university responded to the attacks from the Trump team and filed a counter-lawsuit. The application was submitted to a federal court in Boston with wording that such restrictions by the government are a direct violation of the First Amendment of the Due Process Clause and the Administrative Procedure Act. The court sided with Harvard University and suspended the presidential administration. Now the university continues to work normally, but the management is waiting for several more hearings on the conflict case.
