April 16, 2025
US DEP
HOMELAND
TMENT OF
SECURITY
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
Homeland
Security
Maureen Martin
School Code: BOS214F00162000
Harvard University
c/o Harvard International Office
1350 Massachusetts Ave., Rm. 864
Cambridge, MA 02138
Maureen Martin@Harvard.edu
Student and Exchange Visitor Program
Student Records Request
It is a privilege to have foreign students attend Harvard University, not a guarantee. The United States
Government understands that Harvard University relies heavily on foreign student funding from over
10,000 foreign students to build and maintain their substantial endowment. At the same time, your
institution has created a hostile learning environment for Jewish students due to Harvard’s failure to
condemn antisemitism. As a reminder, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14188,
which specifies that “[i]t shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously,
using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the
perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.” EO 14188 (Jan 29, 2025).
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) regularly monitors SEVP-approved schools to
determine their compliance with governing regulations, and to ensure the accuracy of information in
the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) for such institutions, and for the
nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors attending school. Your continued SEVP certification is
contingent upon meeting the requirements of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), set
out in Title 8 Code of Federal Regulations (8 CFR). SEVP may request information regarding
nonimmigrant students from certified schools under 8 CFR § 214.3(g) (1). Your school must submit
the following information to our office on or before April 30, 2025:
1. Provide relevant information regarding each student visa holder’s known illegal activity,
and whether the activity occurred on campus.
2. Provide relevant information regarding each student visa holder’s known dangerous or
violent activity, and whether the activity occurred on campus.
3. Provide relevant information regarding each student visa holder’s known threats to other
students or university personnel, and whether the activity occurred on campus.
4. Provide relevant information regarding each student visa holder’s known deprivation of
rights of other classmates or university personnel, and whether the activity occurred on
campus.

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April 14, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Josh Gruenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Sean R. Keveney
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Thomas E. Wheeler
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Education
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
KING & SPALDING
We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11,
2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the
Harvard Corporation.
Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community.
Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s
values but also threaten its academic mission.
To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural,
policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive
learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across
its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free
from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source.
Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic
measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures;
imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs
designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to
support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat
hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different
place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university
will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to
strengthening Harvard’s community as a place in which everyone can thrive.
It is unfortunate, then, that your letter disregards Harvard’s efforts and instead presents
demands that, in contravention of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long