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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 15:06
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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students next academic year


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-h ... ional.html
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 16:16
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Developing story. Fair to expect they'll reach at some settlement in 72 hours? I read that a judge has issued an injunction, so some relief for the current students considering that the judiciary in the US has powers to put a stay on this.
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I think so. I think Trump administration always goes insane and then backs down. But honestly this is more insane that I could imagine. Granted, it’s only impacting Harvard because of the fight the current administration picked with the university and the university mismanaging some of the inclusion and discrimination policies.

But it just seems odd that such a public spectacle
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 16:24
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It is nerve racking / shocking as an international student who is studying in the States this fall (not Harvard). Will this have flow on effects to the other universities?
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I think so. I think Trump administration always goes insane and then backs down. But honestly this is more insane that I could imagine. Granted, it’s only impacting Harvard because of the fight the current administration picked with the university and the university mismanaging some of the inclusion and discrimination policies.

But it just seems odd that such a public spectacle
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 17:23
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It’s definitely crazy.

I don’t think there’s an expectation of other universities being affected because it’ll be a huge impact on their stability and revenue (due to undergrad not MBA) so I would expect most of the effects to be temporary and only limited to Harvard.
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 18:42
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And what about changes to the OPT - I heard some in the administration talking about ending it for international students.
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It’s definitely crazy.

I don’t think there’s an expectation of other universities being affected because it’ll be a huge impact on their stability and revenue (due to undergrad not MBA) so I would expect most of the effects to be temporary and only limited to Harvard.
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 22 May 2025, 18:44
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Good question.

I have not heard about it but I am thinking of inviting an Immigration Attorney to the MBA Spotlight Fair to a panel/session about "Trump Effect" on the overall process (OPT, H1B, etc)
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The Academia, the crossroads or intersection among knowledge, ideas, experiences, fraternity, barred from what is one of the most important resources for the institution itself.


I have a hard time even willing to post on a forum to discuss what is happening around us. It is so demotivating and appalling!!.

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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 23 May 2025, 02:52
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Interesting interview to Ryan Enos, Professor of Gov at Harvard
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 23 May 2025, 03:35
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Some news floating around OPT, nothing on paper yet but the views of president’s nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are not so positive:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... -training/

https://www.financialexpress.com/world- ... s/3854461/
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The Academia, the crossroads or intersection among knowledge, ideas, experiences, fraternity, barred from what is one of the most important resources for the institution itself.


I have a hard time even willing to post on a forum to discuss what is happening around us. It is so demotivating and appalling!!.

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Won't work

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Business as usual for international students


If anyone needs any help, MBA Conquerors has enough connections and free resources to help people out who are stuck.

Indians can feel free to reach out. (I'm Indian so my dominant network is that of Indians)


Hang in there, this won't be taken up seriously by the court in my opinion.
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 23 May 2025, 08:41
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FYI - we will be conducting a Q&A session with the HBS AdCom on June 10th during the MBA Spotlight Fair.[/b]
Hopefully we can get some helpful and reassuring answers or perhaps the matter is resolved until then. Pretty sad :(
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 23 May 2025, 09:33
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Craziness continues.


I think it’ll keep bobbing back-and-forth 😞

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A move worth the madness we had in the High Medioevo. Where people were so crazy to install a trial to a Pope...already dead. Condemned him.

We move to that area/era.
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More craziness 🤯

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ew-vetting
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INSANE: Trump Admin blocking international students at Harvard 28 May 2025, 02:05
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Yeah right. The golden age they promised. Yeah right


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While Harvard has a famously selective undergraduate college, most of the university’s students are in graduate or professional school, and more than a third of those older students arrive from other countries. Overall, more than a quarter of Harvard’s 25,000 students come from outside the United States, a percentage that has steadily grown over time. The proportion of Harvard’s international students has increased 38 percent since 2006.

Even if the courts continue to block this move, it will be difficult for anyone to study there knowing they might be deported or imprisoned by a hostile regime — even if they’re the future queen of Belgium - Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban. And an exodus of international students will end up harming universities far beyond Harvard, as well as American research and innovation itself.
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One more back and forth 🤦‍♂️
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This is going to be greater than the Star Wars Saga. That's for sure :please: :facepalm_man: