FOREIGN STUDENTS FOREVER : HARVARD PRECIS

SHOCK spreads at Harvard - as foreign students barred. Degrees and plans thrown into chaos as the government revokes their study permits.

Just before the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would bar international students from Harvard, staff members from the university's International Office met with graduating seniors at the Kennedy School of Government, congratulating them on their degrees - and on surviving the chaos of recent months.

THEN, within minutes of the meeting's end, news alerts lit up the students' phones. Chaos was breaking out again.

Kristi Noem, the U.S. homeland security secretary, had notified Harvard that its permission to enroll international students was revoked.

With that the degrees and futures of thousands of Harvard students - and an integral piece of the university's identity and culture - were plunged into deep uncertainty.

The World Students Society thanks Jena Russell and Miles J. Herszenhorn.