A new $100,000 fee for skilled worker visas could squeeze the pipeline of talent to American colleges, making it more difficult to hire foreign professors and researchers and the U.S. less attractive to some international students. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Two-thirds of college presidents are “extremely” or “moderately” concerned about the impact of immigration restrictions or visa revocations on higher education, according to a new survey by @aceducation.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The State Dept. says that students and other visitors must apply for visas in their home countries, cutting off an alternate route for those in regions with long wait times. How is this affecting student-visa applicants or already-scheduled appointments? www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

A spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee would revive the China Initiative, the federal investigation of academic and economic ties to China appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Now that the academic year has begun for most colleges, the international-student-enrollment picture is coming into focus. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

There’s been unprecedented tumult in the student-visa system. American colleges are feeling the effects this fall. www.chronicle.com/article/even...

A proposed rule setting time limits on international students’ study in the United States would also restrict transfers and program changes and give the federal government greater authority to determine academic progress. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a judge's ruling that blocked the government from revoking Harvard University's authority to enroll international students storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On Tuesday, President Trump said during a Cabinet meeting that it was "very important" for foreign students to study in the U.S. Today, the administration published a rule that many in higher ed fear could deter those same students from coming to the U.S. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

NEW: The Trump administration is out with a proposed rule that would set time limits on student visas, upending a longstanding policy in which international students typically can stay in the U.S. for the duration of their studies. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-16554.pdf

After canceling funding for a number of academic- and cultural-exchange programs, the Trump administration is lifting its hold on 28 others, including the flagship Fulbright Program, allowing them to move ahead in the grantmaking process. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

U.S. federal agencies, including the Department of Education and National Counterintelligence and Security Center, have issued a bulletin warning colleges about foreign threats to research and how to mitigate them www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/d...

International-education groups have sent 12,000 messages to Congress, urging them to save two dozen academic- and cultural-exchange programs after the Trump administration retroactively pulled $100 million in funding Congress had approved. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The Trump administration intervened to stop congressionally approved funds from being spent on State Department exchange programs, raising concern that officials could target other global-education programs, like the Fulbright Program, for cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/whit...

The Trump administration intervened to stop congressionally approved funds from being spent on State Department exchange programs, raising concern that officials could target other global-education programs, like the Fulbright Program, for cuts. www.chronicle.com/article/whit...

The Trump administration has tried to deport international students and scholars involved in pro-Palestinian activism. Now some student journalists worry that they’ll lose their visas for reporting on campus protests. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The Trump administration asked a judge to throw out a case brought by Harvard over its ability to enroll int'l students, saying the college has"shown itself to be incapable of properly hosting, monitoring, disciplining & reporting on its foreign students.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security has backed off a threat to revoke Harvard's authority to enroll international students. A judge had blocked DHS action, but government lawyers said the agency will not enforce the May letter in order to "simplify" the court case www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

International-student journalists at Stanford declined assignments or asked to have their bylines removed because of fears around their student-visa status. I covered a similar case — except the student reporter was worried about the Chinese government not the U.S. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

FIRE has filed a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's efforts to detain and deport international students and scholars for constitutionally protected speech. The First Amendment trumps the immigration statute, the free-speech advocacy group argues www.thefire.org/news/lawsuit...

Case in point, at a Heritage Foundation event this morning, Paul Moore, chief investigative counsel for U.S. Dept. of Education, said American universities have become "international conglomerates." He said the department will open more foreign-funds investigation x.com/i/broadcasts...

NEW: Arguments emphasizing the economic impact of international students would seem tailor-made for President Trump. Instead they fall flat with the businessman-in-chief. Here’s why the $44-billion case doesn’t seem to resonate anymore: www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Here's my piece on how U.S. higher education's economic argument for international students lost its oomph www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Severe backlogs could prevent 150,000 international students from getting visas in time to start the fall semester — on par with precipitous declines in foreign enrollments during the pandemic. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

NEW from me: In an agreement with the Trump administration, Columbia agreed to review its international admissions. How foreign students became a political chip in the government’s effort to overhaul American higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/tuck...

NEW from me: In an agreement with the Trump administration, Columbia agreed to review its international admissions. How foreign students became a political chip in the government’s effort to overhaul American higher education. www.chronicle.com/article/tuck...

Also NEW: The U.S. Dept. of State is investigating Harvard University's "continued eligibility" to participate in the Exchange Visitor Program, which awards visas to visiting professors, researchers, and some students on educational and cultural exchanges. www.state.gov/releases/off...

NEW: The U.S. Department of Education is opening investigations into five colleges for “national-origin discrimination” because of scholarships that may have been awarded to undocumented students. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

A trial over campus protests has implications for both free speech and immigration. Now a judge will decide. www.chronicle.com/article/a-tr...

Policy changes under President Trump have made some international students apprehensive about leaving the U.S. over the summer. Here’s how one college stepped in. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

The U.S. Department of Education said it would "vigorously investigate" gifts and contracts from foreign sources to the University of Michigan, accusing the college of "untimely" and "erroneous" reporting. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Could the Trump administration strike a ruinous blow to American science at a time when it is need of reinvestment, not retrenchment? “This is another Sputnik moment in front of us,” a former MIT president, said. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

First up, @karinfischer.bsky.social's table-setter on the federal policies that have guided US research for decades. “This is another Sputnik moment in front of us,” Rafael Reif, a former president of MIT, told Karin. “This is time for us to double down.”

🧵 For our special issue on research, @chronicle.com dove into how the scientific enterprise has been buffeted by the Trump administration. As Jenny Ruark writes in her editor's note, "the speed of retrenchment is breathtaking." We wrote about how we got here, and what might be next. #AcademicSky

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security set up a special unit to scrutinize foreign student and scholar activists for possible violations of visa or immigration law, pulling analysts areas such as counterterrorism and cyberterrorism to handle the work www.chronicle.com/article/an-a...

DHS said it will send an administrative subpoena to Harvard for records relating to student-visa holders dating back to Jan. 1, 2020 www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07...

NEW: The U.S. government underreported the number of international students on American campuses last year by more than 200,000 — an error that made it appear that overseas enrollments were falling when in fact there was steady growth. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Here's background on the first Trump administration's proposed "duration of status" rule, which would have limited student visas to two to four years. Currently, most students are granted visas for the duration of their studies. www.opencampus.org/2020/09/28/a...

The Trump administration has drafted a proposed rule that would cap the amount of time international students can study in the U.S., revisiting a regulatory change proposed during Trump 1.0 that failed to make it across the finish line. www.nafsa.org/regulatory-i...

Minnesota is the latest state sued by the Trump administration to try to overturn a policy providing lower in-state tuition rates to undocumented students. More than half the states offer some tuition benefits to undocumented students www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

All international students applying for U.S. visas will have to go through social-media screening. Here’s what to know: www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

With the clock ticking down to the new academic year, mandatory social-media screening could slow student visas. Will tens of thousands of students get their visas before classes start? www.chronicle.com/article/coul...

A federal judge granted an injunction blocking the Trump administration's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A federal judge granted an injunction blocking the Trump administration's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW: The State Department will restart student-visa interviews worldwide after a three-week pause. It will include stricter social-media vetting, including a requirement that applicants set all their accounts to public

The Trump administration is considering expanding its current travel ban. The new restrictions could affect countries that are important and growing markets for American colleges www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

NEW: Members of the Fulbright scholarship board have resigned en masse to protest ideological vetting of scholarship recipients by the Trump administration substack.com/home/post/p-...

Iran sends thousands of students to study in the United States. Blanket U.S. border restrictions on citizens from Iran and 11 other coutnries could halt that flow. www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

International students are simultaneously in the crosshairs of two of the most contentious and virulent issues of the Trump presidency, opposition to immigration and its fight to force higher education to bend to the government’s agenda. www.chronicle.com/article/what...