Harvard, Trump and commencement
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During a tumultuous semester in which the storied institution is facing constant attacks from the Trump administration, we look back at the ceremony that celebrates the students’ achievements.
The Trump administration signaled on Thursday it might back off plans to immediately revoke Harvard University's ability to enroll foreign students because of several concerns, including its alleged failure to police antisemitism on campus,
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.
Some social media speculation is that the president is cutting billions of dollars in funding to the Ivy League institution because it rejected his son as a student.
As students collect diplomas, the university’s lawyers are expected to fight the Trump administration in court over a ban on foreign students.
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The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.
The US State Department is reviewing all Harvard University-affiliated visa holders, not just students, three senior State Department officials told CNN Wednesday.
The commencement, during which thousands of students and parents will pack Harvard Yard, caps the end of a tumultuous academic year for Harvard amid unprecedented threats from the Trump administration.
The daguerreotypes, an early photographic process, were taken to support “polygenism,” which falsely states that African-descended people are inferior to White people.