Once again, Harvard and the Trump administration find themselves in a dispute, this time over whether Harvard can enroll foreign students without providing information demanded by the administration on whether those students are complying with visa rules.
The Department of Homeland Security recently stripped Harvard of its ability to enroll international students, but Harvard has since obtained a temporary restraining order blocking that action (set to start in the fall) from taking effect until the courts can consider the matter.
On the merits, Harvard shouldn’t be allowed to enroll foreign students unless it can agree to reforms that ensure it will handle that privilege responsibly in the future.
But even if Harvard were to achieve a legal victory without reaching an agreement on reforms, it would lose more from a legal battle than it would suffer from simply…
