
Brooke Hauser
Higher Education Reporter at The Boston Globe
Higher ed/Western Mass. reporter @bostonglobe. Miamian in New England. Author, “Enter Helen,” “The New Kids.” https://t.co/o31UfLyGgL
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bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan |Mike Damiano |Brooke Hauser
Trump’s post did not elaborate on the claimed negotiations, of which there has been no public acknowledgement by either side since Harvard in April rejected White House demands to overhaul its governance, amend its admissions and hiring practices, and change its disciplinary procedures — all in response to what the Trump administration alleges is a longstanding culture of antisemitism, racial discrimination and political bias at the school.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Aidan Ryan |Brooke Hauser
Two inscriptions adorn Harvard Yard’s Dexter Gate: “Enter to grow in wisdom” on the way in, and “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind” on the way out. The gate speaks to the school’s mission of public service since its founding nearly 400 years ago, a mission that Harvard has repeatedly tried to convey to the public. But just how far has that message traveled? Since March, Harvard has become a top target in the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul higher education.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Spencer Buell |Shelley Murphy
“Singling out our institution for its enrollment of international students and its collaboration with other educational institutions around the world is yet another illegal step taken by the Administration to retaliate against Harvard,” president Alan Garber added in a message to the Harvard community. Still, many on campus and in the broader academic world are stunned by the series of attacks from Trump, and wondering what could possibly blunt the fallout.
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bostonglobe.com | Sean Cotter |Brooke Hauser
A day after President Trump sought to bar foreign nationals from entering the country to study at Harvard University, the college asked the courts Thursday to step in and stop him from using the force of the federal government to “pursue a government vendetta against Harvard.” “With the stroke of a pen, the DHS Secretary and the president have sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission and the...
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bostonglobe.com | Brooke Hauser |Diti Kohli
Min Ye, a professor of international relations at Boston University, finds herself thinking of a line from a famous Chinese poem: “Where the heart is at peace, there is my home.” A former international student from Wenzhou, China, she now feels at home in Boston and mostly welcome in the United States, where she has lived for more than 20 years. But on Wednesday, the US effectively pulled the welcome mat out from under the Chinese international students here, some 277,000 by most recent count.
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“Alan Garber — bless his soul — was not trained, and our PR team was not trained, to launch defenses against authoritarian governments,” said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard and the author of “How Democracies Die.” https://t.co/PN4MVOvhiX

RT @BostonGlobe: Today's paper: International Harvard students are stunned by Trump’s latest edict. One doesn’t know what to say to his gra…

Boston University professor Min Ye sees Rubio’s “rejection” of Chinese students as “a strong signal that we want to go back to the ’70s,” she said, before “the whole global collaboration in science, technology, and education.” https://t.co/50dEOXzok1