The Trump administration announced that international students will have to go home if the schools they attend only offer online classes this fall.
, if the college or university they attend switches to online-only classes in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The move, a reversal from the spring when international students were allowed to remain in the U.S. to attend online-only classes, could represent a major economic blow to colleges and universities as well as local communities over the loss of tuition and other revenue from international students who typically pay full price.
International students generally must attend all of their courses in person and are prevented from taking more than one online class a semester while studying in the U.S. Those who decide to return to their countries while enrolled in all online classes in the U.S. will maintain their non-immigrant visa status, Cutrell said.
"Universities and colleges are struggling enormously as it is to figure out how to provide education under these pandemic circumstances and so this adds a much greater burden," Meissner said."International students are so baked into the higher education, environment and model that exists in this country."
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