00:00You talk about immigrants and how the major universities have brought a lot of immigrants over and they were great faculty members and researchers.
00:07What about getting foreign students today to American universities?
00:11Some concern in the United States has been expressed that we're taking admission slots from Americans, giving them to students from overseas.
00:20And the same with faculty.
00:21Do you actually feel that foreign students are now afraid to apply because of visa problems or they think they won't get in because there's going to be some discrimination against foreign students?
00:30How has the whole concern in Washington about foreign students and foreign faculty affected Harvard?
00:35Well, right now I have mostly anecdotal evidence.
00:39And this is what I hear from people, not necessarily students who applied here.
00:44What we don't hear, the people we don't hear from are the people who didn't apply.
00:48And, of course, for many programs there is a lot of hesitancy about attending college or attending graduate school in the U.S.
01:00because of uncertainty about visa status and whether that could be taken away.
01:05At the same time, this year we've had a lot of success,
01:10and the students who were actually admitted from other countries, virtually all of them have been able to attend.
01:18So it's too early to have a confident answer to your question, but we are worried.
01:24And I want to say one other thing.
01:26They aren't strictly speaking students, but postdocs, that is the postdoctoral fellows who work in our labs,
01:33in the hospitals, and in other parts of the university,
01:38there is some evidence that fewer of them are applying for jobs in the U.S.
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