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My first days as Harvard Brit Bite match the horrors of 9/11. Unable to tear themselves from the need and the news, adolescents of all nationalities jumped into sticky seats and saw the towers on the Common Room TV repeatedly read. All shocked. All together. That moment, and the days the next day taught me more about the power of a community beyond myself than anything from him.
No more Last week, the Trump administration in the latest growth of the US President’s fight against Harvard University “Immediately effective” from enrolling international students. Reason? Failure to oppose Harvard and work against the “waking” ideals. Read the ominous statement of the Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Nom, “It acts as a precaution to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
What is the warning to do? Obviously the President turns his knees. (Harvard did not do so and the ban was temporarily blocked in court.) But Trump’s move also has a greater involuntary alert on academic independence and involvement in other parts of the United States in the United States.
As a young man packing your life and moving to another country requires a certain type of courage. The lesson you receive is not just of intellectual diversity. You’ve been hybrid, a person for whom several of your constructive years carry the fingerprint of a culture that is not your own. A person who is where you end up where you end up, you have a permanent affection for the place you have Choice You were just born as part of the odd genetic lottery.
Like all good relationships, it goes in two ways. International students can go home but Americans they live, study and do not party. Different influences on both sides, a lifetime reminder that there is more, the ideas flow from everywhere.
Seven percent of the student body in Harvard is international. However, many other US academic organizations have more parts. There were more than 1.1MN foreign students in the United States in 2023-24. To see it using Trump’s favorite bottom line, it is a horror meaning.
Yes, Nom “Assistance Pad. Their contribution was estimated at $ 43 billion in the last academic year. Some of these enthusiasm in the US economy will be overcome by graduation.
And now? Well, international students are attracted to ideas – both are academic and they are sacred about the country they have chosen to make their own. America is a goal, a escape, food ticket, a chance, an adventure, an adventure and a challenge – often at the same time. However, very few people will want to go somewhere where they can be taken away on the street or turn to the airport. And so they will look somewhere else and lose the United States.
Meanwhile, academic independence – that valuable, historic tihassik, an unmatched driver of progress that has become part of American dreams for so long – will slowly dry up. Ideas may not be subject to border control, but those who have must have. Freedom is needed to explore for innovation, to wander, make the best proposal in the world and bring its capital to its capital. It is difficult to find life -saving drugs or the skills to create a next tech giant from the world community. Just ask Elon musk.
Fighting at Harvard’s over court will continue and run. However, around the world, a new generation who prepared for their great American adventure will create a backup plan. I kept thinking back to my own international associate two decades ago. Nothing is nothing but an American dream, and an idea that we had enough space for all of us on earth.
