Wall Street Journal slams Trump admin for 'short-sighted attack' on Harvard

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Source: The Hill

05/24/25 11:03 AM ET


The Wall Street Journal slammed President Trump’s administration for delivering a “short-sighted attack” on Harvard University after banning the Ivy League institution from enrolling international students this week.

The editorial board wrote that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision to rescind Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification on Thursday has thrown all of the school’s foreign students’ futures “in disarray.”

“It’s also a short-sighted attack on one of America’s great competitive strengths: Its ability to attract the world’s best and brightest,” the board wrote in an editorial on Friday.

“Most of Harvard’s foreign students are enrolled in graduate programs. Many assist with scientific research and teaching undergraduate courses,” the editorial board added. “Driving them out of Harvard will disrupt research projects and might cause some professors in the sciences to leave for other universities. This seems to be a goal of freezing Harvard’s research grants.”

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