Tag: foreign students

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White House Drops Rule Sending Foreign Students Home if Colleges Go Fully Online in the Fall

The White House on Tuesday agreed to drop the rule that would have sent home foreign students studying at colleges that decide to go fully online in the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic,  reported The Wall Street Journal. The agreement, reached at a hearing Tuesday afternoon, settled a lawsuit brought by Harvard University and […]

July 14, 2020

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How a Rural Community College Embraces Diversity

Outside the large urban areas, many of us in the United States live in areas where most people around us look, speak, and act like we do.

December 21, 2016

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Washington State Seeks to Increase Foreign Students

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State University wants to increase the number of students from other countries who enroll at the Pullman-based school. The university this week signed an agreement with a company that recruits international students. The effort is part of the school’s goal to become one of the nation’s top 25 public research universities […]

December 20, 2016

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U.S. Colleges Look Outside China for New Foreign Students

BOSTON —As a surge of students from China begins to level off, many U.S. colleges are expanding recruiting efforts in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America in part to boost budgets that have come to rely on tuition dollars from international students. The number of Chinese students at U.S. colleges rose from 62,000 […]

November 14, 2016