WASHINGTON — President Trump recommended Wednesday that Harvard halve its variety of worldwide college students to make the distinguished college “nice once more” — after halting billions in federal grants and making an attempt to throttle the Ivy League establishment’s potential to enroll foreigners.
“I feel they need to have a cap of perhaps round 15%, not 31%. We have now individuals who need to go to Harvard and different colleges, [but] they’ll’t get in as a result of now we have international college students there,” Trump informed reporters within the Oval Workplace.
The administration final month froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to the elite college and final week paused its potential to enroll worldwide college students — after faculty leaders rebuffed administration calls for to curtail antisemitic incidents and supply lists of international college students for federal evaluation.
“Harvard is treating our nation with nice disrespect,” Trump added. “I would like Harvard to be nice once more.”
The president additionally floated rerouting federal funds to commerce colleges and away from the Cambridge establishment, which says 27.2% of its scholar physique within the 2024-2025 tutorial 12 months was non-American.
“They’re taking $5 billion and I’d slightly see that cash go to commerce colleges. And by the way in which, they’re completely antisemitic at Harvard, as you understand, and another faculties too, in all equity to them, and it’s been uncovered, very uncovered,” Trump stated.
“Each time they combat, they lose one other $250 million. Yesterday we discovered one other $100 million. They usually have, you understand, they’ve a fund, an endowment, $52 billion, all proper? They acquired plenty of that from the US. And I feel it’s ridiculous.”
Trump added: “Everybody’s coming as much as me saying, ‘We love the concept of commerce colleges, with that form of cash … you possibly can have the perfect commerce colleges anyplace on the earth.”
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