Harvard University has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump‘s efforts to curtail antisemitism in higher education. The Ivy League institution has pushed back against these efforts more than other schools have,

"It would be devastating," a former president of Harvard — and frequent critic of the university — said of the government's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

Some of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the Ivy League school ineligible for international student visas.

An attempt to bar the school from hosting international students is just the latest escalation of an ongoing back-and-forth over Harvard's ideological future.

Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch is outraged by the Trump administration's effort to ban foreign students. "It will take years, maybe decades to repair the damage that Donald Trump and that group of morons and buffoons is doing to this country each and every day,

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement.