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International students faced with possible visa restrictions in the repression of US President Donald Trump against Harvard University can have a rescue plan to return to school in the fall – student in Canada.
The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from Toronto University says it will offer options to international graduate students who plan to return to John F. Kennedy School of Government, better known as Harvard Kennedy School, to continue their studies in this country.
The agreement, according to an advertisement on the Munk school websitewould allow students to take courses in a mixture of Kennedy school instructors, online and in person, as well as professors from the University of Toronto.
“We are now announcing these emergency plans to mitigate the uncertainty that many students, but we will officially launch these programs only if there is sufficient demand from students who are unable to come to the United States due to visa or entry restrictions,” said the Kennedy school Dean, Jeremy Weinstein, in an email to students, The Boston Globe reported.
The Trump administration has disagreed with Harvard for months after government requests rejected by the university intended to respond to conservative complaints, they had become too liberal and tolerated from anti-Jewish harassment-although requests were widely turned into a row as a transition to the silence of pro-Palestinian gatherings on university campuses through the United States
Last month, the Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to register international students in the context of a pressure campaign that seeks changes to governance and policies at the Ivy League School in Cambridge, Mass.
Administration officials have also reduced more than $ 2.6 billion in research grants, ended federal contracts and threatened to revoke the exempt status for the school that Trump has ridiculed like a home for liberalism.
The university called for this illegal reprisals for rejected requests from the White House to revise Harvard’s policies around demonstrations, admissions, hires and other problems.
Harvard continued the Ministry of Internal Security in May after the agency withdrew the school certification to welcome foreign students and publish documents for their visas. The action would have forced around 7,000 Harvard foreign students to transfer or risk being illegally in the United States.
On Monday, a Federal Judge of Boston made an order preserving the ability of foreign students to go to the United States to study in Harvard while the case is decided.
Trump attacking freedom of thought, says judge
The latest injunction occurred on Monday in response to another Trump decision, which cited a different legal justification when he published a June 4 proclamation preventing foreign students from entering the United States to attend Harvard.
In her order, Judge Allison Burroughs said the case concerned freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
“Here, the government’s ill-placed efforts to control a renowned academic institution and fail various points of view apparently because they are, in some cases, opposed to the opinions of this administration, threaten these rights,” she wrote.
Last Friday, Burroughs published a preliminary injunction allowing Harvard to continue to register international students at the moment.
Trump posted on his Social truth Friday platform that an agreement with the university is possible and could be announced soon.
“They acted extremely appropriate during these negotiations and seem to be determined to do what is good,” he said.
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Plans in place but not locked up
There are two potential options for international students from Kennedy School, who make up 59% of the school population, with people from nearly 100 countries and territories.
Under the agreement with the Munk School, international students would be registered as “full -time and not degree special students”.
At the end of their studies, they will obtain their Harvard master’s degree.
Students participating in the Kennedy School program of the Mongk School are invited by the University to request a Canadian study permit in mid-July.
Although the option of attending the Munk school is only open to return students, Kennedy School also has a second emergency plan that would allow new international students to continue to study in Harvard.
That optionWho would also be offered to the return students, would see the courses offered online, with three meetings in person which would take place in cities elsewhere in the world during the academic year.
But no plan is concluded.
Not only do they depend on demand, but they still need approval by the New England Higher Education Commission.
It is not clear if other Harvard schools have concluded agreements for their international students.
But the president of Harvard Alan Mr. Garber assured international students Earlier this month that plans were being developed.
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