On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Information Channel’s “Fox & Associates First,” Harvard Professor of Bioengineering and Utilized Physics Package Parker mentioned that it’s greatest if the Trump administration and Harvard’s administration meet and attempt to resolve the battle between the 2 and the Trump administration’s request for a listing of international college students is “completely affordable, it’s honest, and I believe it’s prudent.”
Co-host Carley Shimkus requested, “[D]o you foresee a scenario the place Harvard’s president will meet with or try to work with the Trump administration surrounding all of this?”
Parker answered, “I actually hope so. And I’ve been encouraging that on our campus for months now. If President Trump will meet with Putin or he’ll meet with Kim, he’ll actually meet with President Garber. It is best to all the time be speaking to your enemies so you possibly can keep away from a battle that’s going to harm each side. Actually, this battle goes to harm each side. The one folks successful proper now [are] the Chinese language Communist Occasion, who [have] received to be laughing on the method our establishments of upper studying are disassembling themselves over the past a number of years and this present battle with the federal government.”
Later, Shimkus requested, “[O]ne of President Trump’s calls for, Package, is for Harvard to offer a listing of its international college students in order that they are often vetted. I believe we learn about President Trump’s persona to know that it’s going to possible trouble him to no finish to see international protesters protesting at Harvard and be taught that 27% of its enrollees come from different nations. So, do you assume that that could be a demand that Harvard will work with the President on and supply that record? I believe it’d go a good distance in going again to normalcy right here.”
Parker responded, “I believe it’s an affordable request on the a part of the President. I believe it’s an affordable request on the a part of the State Division to comply with up on these college students who’ve been given visas to return right here to the U.S. For probably the most half, they’re learning exhausting, they’ve come to those beacons of democracy known as American universities, they’re working very exhausting for us, and lots of of them wish to keep right here. It’s a privilege to return right here to the US to check. And our establishments of upper training are smooth energy projection platforms, and in a data economic system, they’re essential to the nation’s curiosity. They’re actually essential to President Trump’s imaginative and prescient of a golden age, the place, post-COVID-19 pandemic — after the Plague, there was a Renaissance interval, nice advances in science and tradition — I believe we’re posed to see the identical factor now. And these universities are going to be the hubs of this Renaissance interval…it’s essential that the schools are secured, the identical method the Italian port cities have been and that we’re all aligned going ahead. So, I believe it’s — the President’s request, the administration’s request is completely affordable, it’s honest, and I believe it’s prudent.”
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