Democrats spent 9 years censoring internet activities to reduce foreign influence. General Flyn was destroyed for speaking with a foreign citizen. Harvard incentivized international students, some are likely agents of their governments, to participate in political violence during midterms and finals. Conservative speakers have been chased of campus due to violence caused by liberal campus opposition groups. How many of Harvard’s 27% international student body took part in censoring conservative groups?
Equity policies are destroying American education in order to “level the playing field.” Some colleges stopped requiring entry exams. Several districts have eliminated Advanced Placement/honors courses and watered down curriculums. This reduced minority and poor students’ opportunities to distinguish themselves in college, job, and internship applications. The remaining factors are heavily influenced by family resources/connections. The same equity experts ignore the oversized influence of Ivy League institutions. Harvard students/graduates have more access to prestigious government/private internships and post graduate jobs than most. As a result, Harvard students will be more likely to be selected than an equally qualified candidate from UNCG or NC A&T. Ironically there are thousands of universities across the US that have higher percentage of minority graduates than Harvard. Yet, these institutions, their minority and other disadvantaged students, are often frozen out of prestigious opportunities. This isn’t the early 1900’s. Many universities lacking the Ivy’s name recognition have strong mature and competitive academic programs. However, their students are being passed up for opportunities.
International students are culturally rewarding. However, federal and state governments need to prioritize American students. International students deserve free speech. This doesn’t include harassing fellow students or occupying/damaging property. We need to address the preferential hiring of influential university graduates over similar applicants from other institutions.
Let me guess. . . … a major reason for having so many foreign students in colleges and universities is based on one thing. . .. money. Harvard’s wealth (estimated at over 50 billion) could easily educate new students for more than 20 years without ever charging the students for their education. Would be interesting to see how much of the wealth is invested in various countries, companies, etc.
What’s interesting is that once race based admissions were eliminated, guess who benefited the most with the most qualified applicants at Harvard? Asian applicants. Black admittance dropped 1%, white admittance dropped 10%, yet Asian admittance increased 23% and Hispanic admittance increased 3%.
Seems that money has little to do with it as Asian culture seems to push education that much harder and generate more qualitied applicants on average. And given our poor public education system in the US, the international Asian students were likely just more qualified than good ‘ol white American students (unless they could afford upper end private schooling).
I guess Trump DOES support DEI by his attempt to block foreign Asian students who make up the majority of new students to Harvard at 37% of the freshman class.
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: The rule of law, its science and innovation systems and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could more damage than a thin-skinned orange child of a president. So much for making great.
You mean it took the Supreme Court to tell mature, intelligent folks at Harvard they were discriminating with race-based admissions? Harvard is much more than a disgraceful university. Period.
Was interesting that a diversity program affected the white students in a positive way and had minimal impact on black student attendance. So, conservatives anti DEI policy actually created what Trump claims is a problem with foreign national students. He really is a moron.
Harvard is one of the top University’s in the world. Period.
You’ve got to be kidding. Harvard is a domestic terrorist university.
Oh no! Did students use their 1st amendment rights and protest something they didn’t agree with on a college campus? What is the world coming to these days!?
Oh right. Conservative don’t support the US constitution anymore and think speaking out against things they support is terrorism.
Sad.
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CHRIS : “Harvard is one of the top University’s in the world”.
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So big government now wants to tell private universities how to run their schools? That has historically not worked well. Just look at k-12 schools performance.
Schools such as Harvard take the best students from a global pool of top students. The majority of these students stay in the US after graduation. Especially if they are involved in post-doc programs where they drive much of the research that these advanced Universities are world renowned for in the scientific community. The Trump administration is pushing advanced researchers out of the US by first canceling research grants and now by pushing out top Canidates from foreign countries.
This is called the brain drain. Not only are we attracting less foreign top students to come to the US, but many of our existing top post-docs / scientists (US born and foreign nationals) are also being forced to leave as funding for research in US is being replaced by EU and Asian countries. Their knowledge, skills and research has made the US the leading country in innovation and scientific progress. That will now be given over to other countries that believe science and research are critical for success, national security, and independence from other nations.
The idea that foreign students are being given preference over equally qualified domestic candidates isn’t true. Schools take the best candidates that they can. Money really isn’t the issue at the advanced university like Harvard, Stanford, or Duke. There are more than sufficient scholarships for any qualified students. Duke for example has a policy that if you qualify to attend, they will find funding for you… These universities take in the best student’s period.
So much for making America great. But hey, at least diversity doesn’t matter anymore. /s
Chris. You are such a moron the biggest reason for Harvard is foreign students pay a full ride. They receive no government aid or scholarships. So do the math. 23% of their enrollment yearly is foreign students or about 7200+ x $70,000 a year. It’s exactly what Joe said. It’s all about money
So again do the math
Do you even research things before you comment or are you one of those that uses the ‘I thunk it so it must be true’ types?
Quick search shows:
Harvard University has a need-blind admissions policy and offers need-based financial aid to all admitted students, regardless of their nationality. This means that the tuition cost itself is the same for both domestic and international students.
For the 2024-2025 academic year, the tuition for Harvard College is approximately $56,550.
For the 2025-2026 academic year, the tuition for Harvard College is listed as $59,320.
While the sticker price for tuition is the same, the financial aid packages provided are tailored to each student’s demonstrated financial need, which can significantly reduce the amount a student actually pays.
Elite universities only care about finding the best students. Because that is how they maintain their reputations.
Please stop blindly supporting Trump’s actions. He really is the moron destroying the US with daily lies.
America doesn’t need international students. Most of them aren’t suitable for American colleges.
These foreign students, whether they pay tuition or not, are benefiting from taxpayer-subsidized institutions.
It’s a good deal for Harvard, but it’s not a very good deal for America.
These top Universities attract much of the top students from around the world with many (ie over half) of them staying in the US for research, jobs, or teaching. It is a big part of what has made America a leader in innovation for the last several decades.
Now the EU and China are offering our scientists grants to move their research out of the US since Trump as drained any federal funding for research and now blocking top foreign students from coming to the US.
I always wonder if conservatives really meant it when they claimed they supported legal immigration. Starting to look like they don’t.
I for one support legal immigration just not communist leaning immigrants
So you think people from China are big fans of communism? Weird.
* The Chinese ARE big fans of Chinese communism. They have been brainwashed in their public schools (Government Schools) for generations. They have been taught that China is an innocent victim of Western Imperialism and that their recent rise gives them a chance to settle the score.
They are determined to bring down the West, and become the most powerful and sole superpower.
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Only your naivete is weird.
Riiiiiiight and i have a bridge to sell you.
There is a long history of China government having to work hard to shut down descent in their country. Chinese citizens, especially when surveyed anonymously, often express dissatisfaction with the CCP’s economic policies, particularly regarding the widening rich-poor gap and government interventions.
Do you want sources are you just going to go with your standard ‘na uh + childish name + another childish name’ standard response?
here is a source just in case:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/10/10/chinas-government-may-be-communist-but-its-people-embrace-capitalism/
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The only thing remotely juvenile here is your English. And your schoolyard mentality.
Get a dictionary. And a life.
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Has the CCP succeeded in its efforts to “shut down descent”…? You’re pathetic.
And your source only weakly suggests that the Chinese are beginning to embrace capitalism as they see the wealth it has brought. Polling in China is notoriously unreliable, for obvious reasons. The vast majority of their billions are militant Chinese nationalists who see the West as their enemy.
You’re reminiscent of the naive idiots who believed “detente” would neutralize the USSR. It was Reagan and Thatcher who brought the USSR to its knees and ended the Cold War, not the sniveling obsequious Leftists like you.
Lol, the opposite of communism IS capitalism. So the study showing that the majority of Chinese support Capitalism is a very sound argument and proof that your assumption (as you present no source or data) is incorrect.
Classic conservative trick to just argue the data is wrong versus facing that THEY are wrong with a personal insult tossed in for good measure in showing the real nature of who they are at their essence. Just another way of a conservative making a ‘na uh’ hollow argument. LMAO.
Sure, I am awful about typos but at least I provide support for my comments versus just making things up based on my personal bias. But you be you.
Why doesn’t Harvard go back to the pre-George Floyd days when they had plenty of money? They spent all their money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
They still spend on anti-Semitism. They reward folks who are against Jews. They are upset because Trump has brought attention to their foolishness at taxpayer expense. Approximately 95% of Harvard’s faculty identify as left-wing.
The Chinese are bringing in a fungus that affects our crops to infect people, and the Chinese are a racist, toxic people.
The 300,000-plus Chinese students here take an oath to the communist party before coming here.
They still have plenty of money. DEI was a very small fraction of their budget it is safe to assume.
They have never supported antisemitism. They support free speech and recognize that pro-Palestinian protests are not anti-sematic and are just anti-Israel. Sure, there are issues with students and their pressing issues in appropriately which can always be improved in how that is managed. Nothing more. This is just the Trump administration deflecting from their own racist agenda. Conservatives will always hate universities since they use facts, data and science to disprove the conspiracy theories that republicans use to con their sheep to allow them to consolidate power away from the people.
People who use unsubstantiated conspiracy theories to justify their bigotry and willful ignorance are toxic people and are the real people destroying our great country. FYI, close to half of all Chinese students that arrive her for advanced education remain as post-doc researchers or on work visas.
But you be you and chase your windmills as your dear leader instructs. Or you can demand verifiable facts in the continuous face of constants lies from your dear leader Trump.
Do you support the two black male custodians who were kidnapped and assaulted as people exhibiting their free speech rights at Columbia stormed a closed and locked building? They are suing the school. Or does free speech include the right to barnstorm a building and threaten the workers who have to clean up after the rich and entitled students?
The Chinese Communist Party is using fentanyl to target American youth, a strategy to kill off an entire generation.
The Chinese government is certainly using under handed methodologies to hurt America. Doesn’t mean its people are equally as evil.