Trump, Harvard and Administration
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Harvard is the first school to sue the administration after a back-and-forth between President Alan Garber and most of Trump's team.
"It would be devastating," a former president of Harvard — and frequent critic of the university — said of the government's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi gesture as Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) looks on during a ceremony honoring the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
Some of Harvard's sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the Ivy League school ineligible for international student visas.
Julia Marcus, a Harvard infectious disease epidemiologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is one of them. She had three federal grants related to PrEP, a revolutionary medication that can reduce someone’s risk of contracting HIV, canceled in March.
For those who know Pritzker, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, it is no surprise that the 66-year-old Chicago billionaire wants the university to fight back, even if the costs are steep.