One day after the Harvard Ministry of Harvard authorization to register international students, more than 75 international students gathered for food and the company during a Friday evening event co-organized by the dean of students and the Woodbridge International Society.
The revocation of May 22, which was temporarily blocked by a federal judge early Friday afternoon, sowed a general fear among international students – so much that the administrators wrote on Friday that the international telephone lines of Harvard were overwhelmed by a backlin of calls.
But the atmosphere of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub Friday evening was lighter. Pizza and water in hand, international students conversed with small groups and with the best college administrators, notably the outgoing dean of Dean Rakesh Khurana, his successor, David J. Deming, who will take over on July 1, and the dean of students Thomas G. Dunne.
Friday morning, Harvard continued the Trump administration and filed a temporary ban prescription to prevent the DHS from revoking Harvard’s SEVP certification. A federal judge granted Tro less than two hours after the University asked.
WOODBRIDGE – A group of students representing international undergraduate students – announced the event in an email Thursday evening to international students after the DHS announced that it had revoked the certification of the Harvard student and exchange visitors, which Harvard must maintain to welcome international students on its campus.
Woodbridge’s co -chairs have written in a message to the group’s broadcasting list they hoped to provide international students with a place to connect with peers and speak with college administrators “in the light of the current challenges faced by international students”.
The DHS Thursday’s move aroused generalized fear among international students, leaving them concerned about their future studies and their ability to graduate. The administrators of the department and the deans of the houses sent messages of support to students on Thursday and Friday.
Deming, who is currently dean of Kirkland House’s faculty, wrote on the chamber’s broadcast list that “Kirkland international students are members deeply appreciated by our community” Friday morning.
“We are proud to call you our students and friends, and we are here to support you during these difficult times,” he added.
Then, in a Friday evening email, Khurana approached the entire undergraduate student body, reaffirming the importance of international students for the college.
“To our international students: you are essential to our college. Bring you the world in our classrooms. We will continue to fiercely defend your right to be here,” Khurana wrote.
He added that “information moves faster than understanding” and that administrators “do everything we can to get specific answers and share them as clearly and quickly as possible”.
Khurana wrote that the Harvard International Office would be the most reliable source of information for students, although he told students to “be patient while they are working on a backlin of telephone calls”.
“They are available 24/7 for emergencies and will respond as quickly as possible,” he wrote.
Due to the backlog, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences told a member of the faculty to ask students to call the Hio “in a really critical situation (that is to say with Border Patrol)”, according to an e-mail obtained by the Crimson.
“The emergency hotline has been flooded with calls,” wrote an administrator of the GSAS in a message to the member of the faculty, who was sent to students in their department. “Put your hand to their Hio advisor or attend the office hours if they have other questions.”
GSA and university spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
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