In what seems like lifetimes ago, I worked in immigration law. As part of that career, I worked at a handful of very large research institutions and universities where I handled all the immigration things and advised international students, scholars, and researchers on their immigration matters. Through the course of that work, I met many wonderful, talented, and truly amazing individuals. Those wonderful people aside, there were enrollment trends I found troubling even then, which have only grown worse as the years have marched onward.
During the Biden years (or whomever was really running the show), it became very clear that the same open boarders policy designed to destroy the uniqueness of Americanness was being pushed on our college campuses, especially in our grad schools.
As we discuss in our opinion editorial, the numbers speak for themselves. We’ve detailed some of that data there. It’s not the entire puzzle, but is certainly a piece of the problem many of us are racing to address — the all out destruction of our institutions with ideology opposed to what made them outstanding.
You can read our op-ed here:
Are American graduate schools still American?That’s what President Donald Trump is asking as he takes action against Harvard University and its large international-student population.His effort to restrict Harvard’s foreign-student visas seeks to address a growing problem in higher education: Many of our most renowned graduate schools are overwhelmingly non-American.On Wednesday, Columbia University capitulated on the issue — agreeing in its deal with Trump to “take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.”The Ivy also promised to probe “international student-applicants [on] their reasons for wishing to study in the United States” — in other words, to keep out the sneaky saboteurs coming here to wreak havoc.
Significantly, Columbia’s decision signals to other top-tier schools, Harvard in particular, that it’s not worth fighting the administration over international-graduate-student enrollment.
Thankfully, the current administration seems to be keenly aware of the problem and has made preliminary moves to address it. They’re also aware of the downstream issues, such as the exploitation of H-1B visas, especially those allocated for STEM fields, that are screwing over our own talent, to be blunt.
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