Colleges to Trump: Keep Out
From Harvard to Berkeley, university leaders reject the president’s immigration crackdown. Their message: We need brainpower across borders, and America does too.
Students at UCLA protest the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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U.S. universities are grappling with President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing immigration and its implications for their eclectic faculty and student bodies. Here are excerpts of their responses — angry, passionate, and personal.
As an academic institution with students and scholars from around the world, Stanford values and in fact depends upon the flow of students, educators and researchers across borders. —Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president, John Etchemendy, provost, and Persis Drell, incoming provost, Stanford University