International students injected nearly US$45 bil into the US economy in 2018. FMTNews Visa
A runner passes through an arch on the campus of Boston University, in Boston on May 20. The 21-year-old Venezuelan, on a scholarship at Ohio’s Kenyon College, had spent hours pondering his options after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that international students taking classes fully online for the fall semester would have to transfer to a school with in-person classes or leave the country.
For some students, remote learning could mean attending classes in the middle of the night, dealing with spotty or no internet access, losing funding contingent on teaching, or having to stop participating in research.Reuters spoke with a dozen students who described feeling devastated and confused by the Trump administration’s announcement.
At schools that have already announced the decision to conduct classes fully online, students were grappling with the announcement’s implications for their personal and professional lives. Blindsided universities scrambled to help them navigate the upheaval. Having to leave “would completely put a roadblock in my research”, Picard said. “There’s essentially no way that the work I am doing can be done remotely. We’ve already had this big pause on it with the pandemic, and we’ve just been able to start going back to lab.”
Others were considering leaving their programmes entirely if they cannot study in the US, and taking their tuition dollars with them.
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