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Tag: Travel ban
International
Colleges and Universities Express Concerns Over Travel Ban Ruling
Colleges and universities across the nation are expressing concern following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that the Trump administration has the authority to implement the controversial travel ban.
June 26, 2018
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Columbia Offers Scholarships to Syrians, Despite Visa Ban
NEW YORK — Columbia University is moving ahead with the second round of a scholarship program for displaced Syrian students. That’s despite President Donald Trump’s travel ban that currently bars visas, including student visas, for Syrian nationals to enter the United States, with only limited possibility for case-by-case exceptions. The legality of that travel ban […]
April 15, 2018
International
Universities See Drop in International Enrollment
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Lawrence Journal-World reports that after about a decade of growth, universities nationwide began reporting dwindling numbers of international students since the fall of 2016. Some college administrators suggest the trend is due to President Donald Trump’s restrictive immigration and travel policies. The chancellor of the University of Kansas said the university […]
January 22, 2018
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Colleges Urged to Be Inclusive of International Students
Colleges and universities must begin to think of international students more as part of the overall student population and not as a separate group, attendees at the EducationUSA forum are told.
July 31, 2017
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Report: International Student Yield for U.S. Colleges Holds Steady
Despite fears that international students might stay away from the U.S. because of President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban, which has been partially permitted pending Supreme Court review, that doesn’t appear to be happening this fall, a new survey has found.
July 6, 2017
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Syrian Doctor Caught in Travel Ban Gives Up, Moves to Canada
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Syrian doctor says he won’t return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration’s travel ban. Khaled Almilaji said Wednesday there’s too much uncertainty, even though he possibly could get a student visa under the scaled-back version of the ban. The administration has […]
June 28, 2017
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Colleges, Universities Officially Cite Potential Harm of Travel Ban
With the second travel ban issued by President Donald J. Trump being held in abeyance, colleges and universities are urging a federal court that will hear the case to consider how the ban will undermine diversity in higher education.
April 9, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Guillermo: Halted or Not, Travel Ban Already Impacting Higher Ed
Even while both of Donald Trump’s executive orders banning travel from six Muslim-majority nations have been stalled by federal district courts, the fear of a travel ban is already creating negative impacts for schools, according to a new friend of the court brief filed by 31 universities on Friday.
April 2, 2017
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Experts: Trump’s New Travel Ban a Blow to International Study
President Trump’s issuance of a revised executive order placing tight restrictions on the entry into the United States of some foreigners received a guarded reception from higher education leaders and frontline college and university officials involved in international higher ed efforts.
March 6, 2017
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Universities Tell Judge Travel Ban Hurts Schools, Students
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s travel ban already has harmed some of the nation’s top universities, stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world’s brightest students, lawyers for the learning institutions told a federal judge. The schools said in papers filed Monday in Brooklyn federal […]
February 14, 2017
International
Iranian Researcher Blocked from Entering U.S. Sues Trump
BOSTON — An Iranian scientist heading to Boston to take a job at a Harvard Medical School lab has sued President Donald Trump after she was denied entry into the U.S. Samira Asgari says in her lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court that she was denied entry to the U.S. even though she had […]
February 2, 2017
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Wheaton College Answers Immigration Ban with a Scholarship
Wheaton College, a small, private, liberal arts institution located in Norton, Massachusetts, announced Tuesday that it would institute a scholarship for a refugee from one of the seven countries listed under the travel ban in the executive order.
January 31, 2017
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