What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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Georg Weizsäcker
"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'"
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Confirmed.
New budget year starts April 1st…. What’s going to be left of my college once they’re done cutting won’t be pretty.
.... And we also have a childcare and childcare worker crisis.
Oh, sorry, she was born here to immigrants. So technically she wouldn't be a citizen I guess under their birthright citizenship plan? So, again, a foreign student.
For too long, we have celebrated "prom queens and athletes over valedictorians and math champions."
Not that the former are inherently negative aspirations, but that the latter have a more lasting value to society.
Disinfo does not have a rational purpose, and, alas, is not ameliorated by Truth.
I think it’s time to just admit that Vance is a fucking racist.
His poor kids.
So. More expensive college. Less likely employment or deflated wages. 🤡
I go back and forth on the question of who is worse. Is it the addled true believer xenophobic racists like Trump or the cynical xenophobic racists like Vance?
Is it the cynical opportunist or the truly committed we should despise most?
While I know it's different at elite universities, almost anyone can find a program at my community college, do 1-2 years and transfer to another program or to a university.
in 1950 it was ~3,000;
in 1975 it was ~4,000; and
today it’s around ~6,000
🤷♂️
Forcing foreign students out doesn’t leave the pie for American students to take, it just shrinks the pie for everyone to everyone’s detriment
Now that foreign student numbers have been slashed, universities are going into financial collapse. Of course, the right are happy with that as they prefer voters to be uneducated, ignorant and unquestioning.
If it isn't a right, you'll end up like the US.
Win-win!
This is a $80billion/year.
Yes, it subsidizes universities. It’s also jobs. And it’s a lot of revenue & jobs for the communities supporting universities