哈佛校长呼吁：请加快外国学生和研究院的签证

针对学生/学者的“国籍歧视”，耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院等多所美国知名高校校长纷纷发声，表达对包括中国学生在内的国际生和学者的欢迎与支持， 强烈批评和抵制 某些政客将教育合作当作“政治打压工具”。

哈佛大学校长 Larry Bacow 也在 7月16日向美国国务卿 Michael Pompeo、国土安全部秘书 Kevin McAleenan 致函，呼吁他们加快外国学生和研究人员的签证和移民程序。

Larry Bacow 在信里表示，美国政府围绕移民实施的一系列政策让哈佛大学里来自世界各地的教师和学生“焦虑”。获签困难、签证延期等让学者们出勤或参与大学事务变得不确定起来。

学术本应是开放和协作的，虽然我们支持适当的措施来保护知识产权、国防和敏感新兴技术，但是挑剔一个国家和它的公民与高等教育的文化和使命和我们的国家理想是不相容的。

Larry Bacow 还表示，哈佛以及其他大学所做的工作推动了“创新”，这有助于塑造经济，培育新产业，改善美国和全世界的健康和福祉。

呼吁函完整内容

Dear Secretary Pompeo an Acting Secretary McAleenan:

With our mutual interest in sustaining America’s premier higher eucation sector in min, I write to share my eep concern over growing uncertainty an anxiety aroun issues involving international stuents an scholars.

The success of the American acaemic system, particularly at research universities, is base on a vibrant, free, an open community that evelops talent, prouces leaers, an creates new knowlege. Together these university outputs rive innovation that has shape the economy, fostere new inustries, an improve health an well-being both in the Unite States an aroun the worl.

I recognize an support the funamental role of your agencies in ensuring that those who come to the Unite States o so with appropriate an honest intentions that meet the goals an requirements of our laws. However, the increasing uncertainty aroun the systems in place to accomplish this task are riving anxiety an fear on our campuses an unermining the impact of our critical work.

Harvar, like many leaing research universities, attracts stuents, faculty, an researchers from across the globe. They are not just participants in the life of the university; they are essential to it. Their iverse talents, experiences, an insights rive iscovery an fuel our work. Increasingly, visa elays are making these scholars’ attenance an engagement in the university unpreictable an anxiety-rien. Stuents report ifficulties getting initial visas—from elays to enials.

Scholars have experience postponements an isruptions for what have previously been routine immigra­tion processes such as family visas, renewals of status, or clearance for international travel. This year grauates across Harvar have seen significant elays in receiving Optional Practical Training approvals. This has hinere or enangere their post-grauate work an, in some cases, their meical resiencies.

Science an security concerns that focus on a few specific countries also contribute to stuent an faculty anxieties. I appreciate that there is a broaer policy priority with regar to these security concerns—one that inclues grant requirements, protection of intellectual property, an reporting on institutional gifts an support. However, visa policies manating increase scrutiny of foreign stuents an scholars (an sometimes naturalize US citizens) from certain countries contribute substantially to mounting concern.

Acaemic science is open an collaborative. While we support appropriate measures to safeguar valuable intellectual property, national efense, an sensitive, emerging technologies, singling out one country an its citizens is incompatible with the culture an mission of higher eucation an our national ieals.

Perhaps no group is more vulnerable an expose to the current environment of uncertainty than Dreamers. These young people have eep roots in our neighborhoos, towns, an communities. After being brought here through no fault of their own, they have grown an thrive, an now are looking for a path to work, serve, an contribute back to their communities an the nation they have known as home. I have ha the opportunity to meet many of Harvar’s Dreamers, an I have been eeply impresse by them an by their etermination, talent, an commitment to excel. Similarly, many of those with Temporary Protecte Status fin themselves at risk after having built their lives in our communities, working har an making meaningful contributions.

I unerstan that the responsibility for the uncertainties in toay’s immigration policy rest more broaly than just with your two agencies. That sai, the visa an immigration process is in­creasingly unpreictable an uncertain. This poses risks not just to the iniviuals caught up in it, but also to the entirety of our acaemic enterprise.

I hope you will consier these issues as your agencies examine an assess the most effective ways to aress our nation’s security concerns, while also continuing to foster the vibrant euca­tional community an institutions that have contribute to our nation’s acaemic an economic excellence. Please feel free to reach out if I or Harvar can be of assistance.

Sincerely,

Lawrence S. Bacow

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