Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 27

From the Boston Globe: Harvard Kennedy School this week assured its international students that they will be able to finish their degrees — online or at a satellite location in Canada — even if the Trump administration is successful in its efforts to ban Harvard from hosting foreign students this fall. The announcement is a first at Harvard, where multiple schools are in the process of making contingency plans for what would happen if the university does not prevail in its legal efforts to beat back Trump’s plan to bar international students at the Cambridge campus.

...Both incoming and returning international students would be able to study remotely, while returning students would have the option to attend the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy to finish their Kennedy School degree... The inability to host foreign students would have a significant impact on the Kennedy School, where international students make up roughly 52 percent of enrollment...

Full story at https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/metro/harvard-kennedy-school-contingency-plans-international-students/.

And from the NY Times: The Trump administration determined that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law by failing to address the harassment of Jewish students on campus, increasing the pressure on the Ivy League school as it negotiates a possible settlement with the White House. The administration sent a letter on Monday to Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, informing the school of the findings of its investigation. The administration said the university ignored the concerns of Jewish and Israeli students who felt threatened during protests on campus over the war in Gaza, according to two people briefed on the letter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the determination...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/trump-harvard-civil-rights-law.html.