Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 13

From the NY Times: President Trump... said Harvard should have a cap on the number of international students it admits to create more spots for Americans, undercutting his administration’s argument that merit alone should guide admissions practices as it escalates its fight with the elite university.

Mr. Trump’s comments came in response to a question about the Department of Homeland Security’s recent move to revoke the school’s ability to enroll foreign students. The college immediately challenged that decision in court, and a federal judge has temporarily blocked the policy...

Asked whether the administration wanted to preserve more slots in college for U.S. citizens, [Secretary of Education Linda] McMahon said that “universities can determine that process.”

“We don’t want to see quotas,” Ms. McMahon said, referring to a Supreme Court case that rejected the use of affirmative action in college admissions. “That was discrimination, and the Supreme Court said that is absolutely not fair. So we want to make sure that people who come in are coming in on merit.”

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html.