Trump-Harvard 'DEI' Feud and Lessons for Institutions of Higher Learning

Education is a driver of change, development, and human enlightenment; it helps individuals to question, experiment, and explore, leading to regulated change.

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When supported by the community and governments, it brightens up at a faster speed, opening new horizons. The research throws light that empowers the researchers to explore further; it is a continuous project. The communities gain from it in human welfare, while the governments and businesses gain by profiting. To control who gains the most engenders politics of conflicting interests. That is the main impulse of the current feud between the Trump administration and Harvard University. While Harvard aims to promote liberal ideologies encouraging free speech and the right to protest unjust and inhuman actions, the Trump administration aims to contain the proliferation of liberal ideologies. President Donald Trump has been spinning a narrative of packing in 'America’s burden' policy of supporting international students, migrant labor, and political seekers as a solution for the problems of the local population. The politics of ideological conflicts comes to the fore in the exchange on social media and press statements on the sidelines of the formal communication. Trump has gone on to accuse Harvard faculty of colluding with the Communist Party of China, while those rejecting the charges have called the Trump government policies reminiscent of McCarthyism of the 1940s.

As to the formal war between Harvard and the Trump Administration, responding to Harvard's lawsuit on May 23, 2025, a US district court in Massachusetts has ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) May 22, 2025 order revoking Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification is restrained till the next hearing on May 29, 2025. The court has blocked DHS from "implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving effect" to the revocation of Harvard's eligibility to enroll international students and sponsor international scholars.