Harvard has limited undergraduate on-campus residency to 40% of capacity for the upcoming term
WASHINGTON: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (
MIT
) and
Harvard
University on Wednesday filed a joint lawsuit against the Trump administration’s move to deport foreign students unless they took in-person courses, even as universities across America raced against time to devise ways to retain their international contingent.
In a complaint filed before a Massachusetts court seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, MIT and Harvard said the announcement by the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that foreign students cannot stay in the US taking only online courses in the time of the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted international student life and jeopardized their academic research pursuits.
“ICE’s action leaves hundreds of thousands of international