They (and all universities) are required to file this. Not sure if they file annually when a semester is over or as events occur, but Harvard should have this information available and be able to provide within 72 hours (usually a demand that is less than a week counts only business days, so may not be due until Tuesday).
Harvard will file a motion to delay this order, but IMO should be prepared to provide the required documents ASAP. If they have had no J or F visa students disciplined this year, they should issue a letter that says that.
Harvard is need-blind for internationals and awarded $53M financial aid to international undergrads for 2023-24, per CDS, with the vast majority of its international undergrads receiving aid.
You obviously know more than I do about this, but much of this does not refer to students who have been disciplined. Are all universities required to file this with Homeland Security? And do the filing requirements go back 5 years? Just asking.
Itâs in section H6 of the Common Data Set 2023-24. You can see the number of international undergrads receiving aid in H6 and then check the total number of international undergrads in B2.
Donât they file it every year? If so, isnât it just a refiling of the same info always filed?
I know they are asking Harvard to prove a point (that they are in charge) but if it is a required report, it is a required report. Just because a prior administration didnât require it doesnât mean Harvard wasnât required to keep the records. How many of the J and F visa students came before the disciplinary board in the last 5 years?
They want " 1. Any and all audio or video footage, in the possession of Harvard University, of any protest activity involving a nonimmigrant student on a Harvard University campus in the last five years." This is not something that has been required by the administration in the past.
âMostâ disruptive?? I feel like Columbia has that title pretty much locked up.. Students couldnât sleep at night with the racket, or hear their professors in class. MIT had 200 demonstrators on the lawn, most of them high school students.. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/mit-protests-encampment.html
Yes, that information is limited to undergraduates. Harvard has twice as many graduate students as it does undergrads, and it has about 6 times as many international grad students as it does international undergrads.
Isnât there some legal right to oneâs image if it was captured without consent? (IOW all faces would have to be blurred in such a way itâd be unrecoverable unless the student gave written consent their face can be captured by Harvard)?
The letter doesnât âsoundâ very legal - it sounds very threatening and will play well on TV&radio but it doesnât sound like a lawyer.. but letâs wait for the Harvard Legal Teamâs reply. I doubt they were sitting iddle during that time.
