Posted on 07/07/2020 7:39:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A friend of mine told me that her daughter, who attends UCLA, will be living at home and taking only online classes in the fall. While the family will be spared the cost of on-campus housing, there is no tuition deduction. On Monday, Harvard announced the same policy. Also on Monday, the Trump administration used the new academic reality as a way to eject Chinese nationals from America.
For several decades now, America's colleges and universities have been making bank by holding spaces open for foreign nationals, especially Chinese students who are the scions of powerful people in the Communist Party. The beauty of these students is that they pay full fare. With them, there are no grants, no in-state discounts, no pesky and inconvenient loans. Instead, it's cash all the way.
A year and a half ago, the New York Times wrote about academia's reliance on foreign students, especially Chinese ones:
It's no mere coincidence that Jeffrey R. Brown, the dean of the Gies College of Business, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is also a scholar of risk management. At his first faculty meeting four years ago, Brown fretted that his school had become, like many American universities, overly dependent on a single source of money — roughly a fifth of tuition revenue came from Chinese students.
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Gee, Trump might lose all of the votes from he got from academics. All five of them.
Cutting off any amount of Chicom cash to American Universities is sure to tick a few people off.
If American universities can collect full fees for online-only classes from US citizens, why shouldn’t foreign students have the same deal? A Harvard on-line class from a computer sitting in China is not much different from the same class sitting in Seattle (just fewer communistic in China).
Oh, the classes themselves aren’t why the foreigners are paying the big bucks...
Ban Tik Tok too
The money quote:
“...if classes go online, foreign students will be denied visas comes as a devastating blow..”
If classes are online, you don’t need a visa.
Duh.
I doubt this was Trump, but rather the agency in charge.
And it doesn’t appear to be directed at Chinese, but rather all foreign students.
There’s an agency that overseas the foreign students. And they ruled that they couldn’t stay in the USA to take online classes. They have to take the classes in person to stay in the country.
Actually Trump is hitting academia in the wallet, but that is beneficial too.
Why on earth would anyone need a student visa to take correspondence courses?
Next problem to be addressed are a number of little fly-by-night colleges who skirt this rule by allowing foreign students to be on campus only a couple of days per term and online the rest. They get work permits and take STEM jobs thousands of miles away from campus. Another scam.
I thought they were already cracking down on the fake college STEM jobs. I remember seeing articles on it in the past.
Fewer spies. Democrats want more.
It’s a “twofer”.
It also financially punishes the Marxist indoctrination centers that have sided with our enemies. They will have less money to keep their political commissars on staff infecting our young.
It is addition by subtraction.
Well, if the communist party elite need to educate their children it seems that Harvard would be a good ideological fit.
My son told me about two weeks ago that he knew a guy from China that was going to Rutgers. All the classes this fall are to be online. The Chinese guy decided to go back to China. He figured that if everything was online, he was better off go back home and be with his family.
If classes are online, you don’t need a visa.
Duh.
“China’s internet censorship, however, means that Chinese students probably won’t be able to take those online classes. And without those classes, Chinese students will walk away and take their money with them.”
Heh. It’s a double whammy. Trump is killing two birds with one stone.
“All five of them.”
They haven’t been seen since.
rwood
He won’t lose mine. I hope he cuts off all government money to private institutions. I’m writing an article on how accreditation and government financial aid have ruined our universities. Their collapse can’t come fast enough as far as I’m concerned.
Trump is hitting back at China at their most vulnerable spot: their WALLET.
Wrong. Trump is hitting back at China at their most vulnerable through education. They come to the US to learn our technologies then take them back to China. Most technologies that China has now has been stolen but the use of that technology has been through sending their nationals here to learn how to use the technology the stole.
Trump is hitting back at ACADEMIA at their most vulnerable spot their WALLET.
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