Harvard is due to hold its annual graduation ceremony as US President Donald Trump's administration challenges its foreign student policy and funding.
Washington:Harvard is due to hold its annual graduation ceremony Thursday as a federal judge considers the legality of punitive measures taken against the university by President Donald Trump that threaten to overshadow festivities.
Thursday's commencement comes as Trump piles unprecedented pressure on Harvard, seeking to ban it from having foreign students, shredding its contracts with the federal government, slashing its multi-billion dollar grants, and challenging its tax-free status.
Harvard is challenging all of the measures in court.
The Ivy League institution has continually drawn Trump's ire while publicly rejecting his administration's repeated demands to give up control of recruitment, curricula and research choices. The government claims Harvard tolerates anti-Semitism and liberal bias.
"Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect, and all they're doing is getting in deeper and deeper," Trump said Wednesday.
Harvard president Alan Garber, who told National Public Radio Tuesday that "sometimes they don't like what we represent," may speak to address the ceremony.
0 Comments