Colleges brace for another attempt at enrollment limits on foreign students – Education Dive
The Trump administration nixed a policy to deport international students who were taking only online classes following widespread resistance from the sector.
Colleges and universities Tuesday reveled in a rare bit of good news for a sector pummeled by the global health crisis. In an astounding reversal under the pressure of a glut of lawsuits, the Trump administration walked back a policy announced last week that would force international students to leave the U.S. if they could only take online classes this fall.
For many campus leaders, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s order represented an impossible choice: risk the health of campuses by reopening them for the fall or upend the lives of a population already vulnerable to the pandemic’s fallout.
But even as Twitter celebrated, news reports were circulating that officials were mulling a replacement rule, possibly one that would limit new foreign nationals from taking virtual course loads in the fall.