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🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The Trump administration is clamping down on foreign students who want to attend American universities – and the schools that admit them. What that could mean for innovation and enterprise in the U.S. and around the world.
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0:19.1 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
0:27.4 | These are disconcerting times for international students in America. |
0:31.4 | The fallout of President Trump's attempt to strip Harvard University of its right to enroll |
0:35.8 | foreign students is being felt across the country |
0:39.0 | and could threaten research, science, and innovation for years to come. |
0:43.4 | While a federal judge has sided with Harvard for now, the legal battle is threatening international scholarship |
0:49.1 | at the nation's oldest university and beyond. |
0:52.2 | It's quite frankly just sad, right? |
0:54.0 | You know, it's a situation where nobody wins and everybody loses. |
0:58.2 | For international students, it's obviously a very difficult situation to exist in uncertainty |
1:04.5 | around the promise of like this dream of education that brought you here, right? |
1:10.6 | The idea that you could go to one of the best schools in the world. |
1:15.0 | That's Chris, a foreign graduate student at Harvard University. |
1:18.2 | He spoke with us on condition that we use only his first name because he fears retribution |
1:22.5 | from the government. |
1:23.6 | We'll hear more from Chris later in the show. |
1:26.2 | Harvard is pushing back hard against the Trump administration, which accuses the university of anti-Semitism and of promoting leftist points of views. |
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