Posted on 05/23/2025 8:31:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration’s threat to block Harvard from enrolling international students would remove more than a quarter of the university’s student body, a share large enough to rock its campus and, potentially, its tuition revenue.
The share of international students studying at these colleges and across the United States has been growing for the past two decades as rising incomes in countries like China and India have produced more families looking to educate their children in America.
Domestic forces have played a role, too: Public research universities in particular have turned to international students, who commonly pay full price for tuition, to help compensate for declines in state funding for education.
“We have all this debate about trade deficits with China right now,” said Gaurav Khanna, an economist at the University of California, San Diego, who has studied these shifts in higher education. “That’s a deficit in goods. But when you think of services — like higher ed services — we have a big surplus.”
Higher education is, effectively, a major American export — and one where the foreign students consuming it do so in American communities, also spending money on housing, groceries and books there. More than 1.1 million international students contributed about $43 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023-24 academic year, most of it on tuition and housing,...
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It wasn’t the number of foreigners that got Trump’s attention.
And it wasn’t that the foreigners demanded genocide of Jews that got Trump’s attention.
It was that the Universities DID NOT to stop their behavior.
Now they pay.
That's because the Universities are antisemitic so why would they stop them.
Kick them all out.
Every last one.
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Don’t Jews keep the universities going? They’re smart.
Chinese in particular should not be given student visas because they are all "sleeper agents " espionage agents who are activated whenever the ChiComs ask them to steal something.
If Trump banned foreign visas for just undergraduates, college tuition would plummet overnight, and they would be more in line with what they should be at.
Beyond disgusting
American kids - like mine - had to compete with this
Wasn’t like this for us Boomers
Only furriners were Iranians and a few Saudis
Chinese were non-existent cuz they were the Big Enemy
Kolleges were dirt cheep
Where’s Hillsdale?
I don’t care whether or not they’re Jews. I care whether or not they’re Americans.
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“I don’t care whether or not they’re Jews. I care whether or not they’re Americans.”
I TOTALLY AGREE
This foreign national college student developed from social engineering of race based “affirmative action.”
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Students were not selected according to academic merit, but rather for colleges and universities to meet receive ace-based quotas in order to receive federal funds. There were not enough U.S non-white students seeking enrollment. So, colleges and universities went through the loop-hole of selecting international students.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African American “Supreme Court justice, highlights the hypocrisy of opposition to affirmative action where opponents claim that it violates the Constitution’s disregard for race. Specifically, Justice Marshall is referring to race-based admissions, the most well-known form of affirmative action in higher education, which is the consideration of race in the college admissions process that extends opportunities to marginalized groups, particularly people of color, in the United States (US) to mitigate systemic inequalities that hinder access to higher education (Hinz 917-918).”
California v. Bakke, the race-based admissions policy at the University of California Medical School was challenged by a white applicant who claimed that the seats reserved for underrepresented groups infringed on his right to a fair admissions process (Hinz 918).
He tried to argue that constitutional “color-blindness” means that preferences cannot be given to marginalized groups because it would constitute racial discrimination toward white people (Hinz 918).
The Supreme Court’s decision was multi-faceted and ultimately allowed race-based admissions to continue by allowing race to be considered among other admissions criteria, but still mandated Bakke’s admission and stated that racial quotas were either unconstitutional (according to Justice Lewis Powell) or went against the Civil Rights Act (according to the remaining justices who sided with Bakke) (“Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.”). Justice Marshall wrote a dissent against the prohibition of racial quotas and wrote in support of the legal foundation of race-based admissions in general (“Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.”).
Hillsdale is the largest city, and county seat, of Hillsdale County, in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,036, at the 2020 census. The city is the home of Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts college.
I was being facetious/sarcastic. I contribute to Hillsdale frequently. They’d never show up on that list.
Thank God.
Most Colleges and Universities will jump at the chance to sign up a paying foreigner. That’s there highest tuition and fees cows. And, the foreigners pay it because more times than not they’re here only to wangle a permanent stay here.
Nobody hates higher education. There has not been higher Ed in any Eastern Uni in decades.
Now, many, many hate the NYT.
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