(29 May 2025)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts – 29 May 2025
1. Various of protestors outside Harvard prior to graduation
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carole Rein, Protestor:
"I visited Israel and Palestine seven years ago and visited with a Jewish family who wanted people to see both sides of what was going on. When I came back seeing what was happening, I had to talk to people about it. I had to tell people what was going on. I was appalled and now it’s so much worse."
3. Various of protestors outside of Harvard
STORYLINE:
Harvard University is holding its commencement Thursday at a pivotal moment, when its place as one of the world’s leading higher education institutions is under what increasingly seems like existential threats from the Trump administration.
Other schools face the loss of federal funding and their ability to enroll international students if they don’t agree to the Trump administration’s shifting demands. But Harvard, which was founded more than a century before the nation itself, is taking the lead on defying the White House in court — and paying a significant price.
The Trump administration’s latest salvos include asking federal agencies to cancel about $100 million in contracts with the Ivy League school. The government already canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants, moved to cut off Harvard’s enrollment of international students and threatened its tax-exempt status.
Visa interviews for international students admitted to schools nationwide were halted on Tuesday, and Trump said Wednesday that Harvard should reduce its international enrollment from 25% to about 15%.
Sustained by a $53 billion endowment, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university is testing whether it can be a bulwark against Trump’s efforts to limit what his administration calls antisemitic activism on campus, which Harvard sees as an affront to the freedom to teach and learn nationwide.
The Trump administration has demanded that Harvard make broad leadership changes, revise its admissions policies and audit its faculty and student body to ensure the campus is home to many viewpoints.
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