The attacks on higher education—funding and free speech—are incalculable. American higher ed has been one of the nation’s jewels, attracting over a million students from around the world each year.
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No one- tourist, scientist, student, or researcher will be coming here. Trump has made us inhospitable. We will lose their money,
their brainpower,
their perspective,
their innovations.
The institutions are capitulating and leaning into becoming propaganda indoctrination centers and abandoning critical thinking and fact based education to appease our new king. They will get what they get. We will languish in the results of our increasingly hateful society.
People around the world dream of coming here for quality education. Very hard to understand why the Administration wants to destroy it except to keep us all dumb and unaware and isolated.
And if they're denying researchers from outside the US to attend conferences here, the conference/convention industry will suffer because conferences won't be able to be held in the US.
The international students aren't going to come, and the international academics aren't going to visit if they risk getting lifted by ICE (for no reason).
Academics aren't wanted unless they can be used for the purpose of the fuhrer and his accomplices. Most communist countries round the scholars up first for reeducation camps.
International students will go where the good professors are. Guess what? Foreign countries are already recruiting and incentivizing top professors to move.
It’s tragic and enraging. We’ve devoted our lives to scholarship and education doing a job people think comes with cushy perks like summers off. More like spending summers writing like mad without childcare because you spend the rest of the year teaching and sitting on committees that get ignored.
They believe public schools & higher ed are indoctrinating students with their Marxist agendas. In reality, a proper education is teaching students critical thinking & reading skills & empowering them for life. That’s far too powerful a weapon to combat tyranny.
The money international students pay to come to US schools is essentially an export - a very expensive one at that. So it seems the administration doesn’t care about US jobs after all (which, of course)
Canada should benefit, but we have just implemented caps on international students (bc some shady institutions were using them as cash cows/not providing them educations/allowing them to use student visas as a way to work here instead).
Many stay here after they graduate. We will be seriously lacking doctors, surgeons, specialists, scientists, tech innovators, etc etc etc. In case some haven't noticed, we aren't producing nearly enough American graduates in high skill fields, for decades & decades.
Yep 🤦🏻♀️ so many times I've heard racist people complain about foreign physicians, accents, women, demanding more "American male" Drs. Well that 5th grade reading comprehension, cost and ambition to be a tiktok influencer doesn't produce enough Drs 🤷🏻♀️ Good luck with that deportation thing 🤦🏻♀️
They’d be crazy to come here now. I’d be afraid to get arrested arriving at customs. If they get in, they can be thrown out at any time. Arbitrary power on the loose in this country. Maybe they’ll be sent to jail in El Salvador.
A critical source for the California State University system which has to cap international enrollment because the demand is high and the incentive for campuses to reap the higher tuition is also high.
It's primarily a bunch of fragile petty males who can't deal with a world in which women, POC, LGBTQ+ folk, etc, are expected to be treated as equals. They are tearing it all down in efforts to culturally time travel back to the 50s, maybe further. Ignore science, ignore history....
The history record is crystal clear on those who grasp the reins of power through the control of knowledge, reading & books, and who can raise their voices to be heard by the people.
American russiaification is encrapification is enshitification is what Putin wants, and Dump delivers. This isn’t controversial, but it is an unknown fact to the red state rubes who identify as maga.
I used to think those students went back home and spread some positive feedback about America and Americans. Now I wonder. If this is who we elect, and this is how little those institutions have done to protect international students?
The current generation of kids in high school will be severely hampered by these draconian cuts and decisions; the lack of scientists, engineers and Doctors, Patient care, scientific discoveries, drugs, the list is endless, we will all suffer. As other countries progress we will be left behind
Every type of research that we lead in. Cancer research. Drug research. Everything‘s been damaged. It’s gonna cost a fortune. We are going to lose so much business to the world. Trump is fucking everything because he’s mad at the USA.
We just can’t stop these fools from believing lies.
Every public and private university that takes 1 dime from the government is being silenced by the Trump/Musk regime. The uneducated are easier to manipulate.
Any ambitious striving nation (UK, Germany, Canada, France??) should be aggressively trying to replicate the higher ed infrastructure and research mechanisms to recruit staff and students.
And critical research for medical advances will grind to an absolute halt - more and more people will die of cancer and other illnesses because the private sector won't fund R&D without academic and gov't support.
As a historian, can you please address how the rise of #Fascism should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows history and has been paying attention for the last 30 years?
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their brainpower,
their perspective,
their innovations.
We will poorer in many ways for Trump’s idiocy.
All 3 branches of the Fed have failed their oaths to the Constitution. The Fed Gov possesses 0 authority to govern.
I refuse consent to dictatorship.
#NQNQ247
Gutted for the US (my birth country) now.
For what?
They want stupid compliant servants to the wealthy who take what they're given.
They've turned future innovation over to the Chinese.
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Which is PRECISELY why they're shutting it down.
Learning to play a musical instrument is something mostly only girls, gays and bluh people do, tho. So woke!
#ShameOnMAGA
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793629678/The-New-White-Nationalism-in-Politics-and-Higher-Education-The-Nostalgia-Spectrum
If they did before, they certainly won’t now.
We just can’t stop these fools from believing lies.
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