On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump suspended for an initial six months the entry into the United States of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programs at Harvard University amid an escalating dispute with the Ivy League school. Trump's proclamation cited national security concerns as justification for barring international students from entering the U.S. to pursue studies at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university.

Jay Nygard, a staff member at the University of Minnesota, told CGTN that there are a tremendous number of not only foreign students but also foreign instructors and teaching assistants. He believes this will affect the operation, funding and overall makeup of U.S. universities. "Students are getting caught up in this whole student visa hysteria and political hysteria that it seems the current administration doesn't understand.”