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The Column: Budget Cuts Threaten Lowell’s Arts Community
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation imposing a six-month ban on foreign students entering the U.S. to study at Harvard University.
- The proclamation followed the Department of Homeland Security's effort to revoke Harvard's certification to enroll international students, which Harvard challenged in court.
- A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the ban, noting that international students make up 27% of Harvard’s population and indicated a forthcoming permanent injunction.
- Trump justified the action citing national security and campus antisemitism, while a Harvard spokesperson called it an illegal retaliatory step violating First Amendment rights.
- Experts advise Canadian students to consider schools in Canada or abroad to avoid uncertainty but say the ban should not deter those passionate about studying in the U.S.
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Hartford Courant
Harvard gets other universities’ backing in Trump funding fight
By Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg News A group of 18 leading U.S. research universities, including Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission to file legal arguments in support of Harvard University in its high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration over more than $2 billion in frozen grant money. The institutions have all received millions of doll…
The Column: Budget cuts threaten Lowell’s arts community
THE LOWELL Festival Foundation sent out an email thanking the community for its support following the news that the Trump administration had directed the National Endowment for the Arts to withdraw the $20,000 grant funding already promised to the organization for fiscal 2025. “Your support means everything,” the May 28 email said. “From generous donations to handwritten cards, notes, and even stickers tucked into envelopes. Your love for the Lo…
COMMENT. The prestigious universities are to be "cleansed" and foreign students are to be stopped. Trump's battle with the scientific community is likened to the Chinese Cultural Revolution - and could cost the US significantly more than future Nobel Prizes.
Harvard is going through the worst reputational crisis in its history, losing support from all sectors. Are we seeing the beginning of the end for one of the most powerful institutions in the academic world? The post The End of Harvard? The Crisis That Is Destroying Its Global Prestige first appeared on Valuetainment.
US President Donald Trump started to make America big again, but he systematically weakens his country: economically, diplomatically – and also research-politically. His campaign against universities could prove fatal.
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