International students typically pay full tuition prices, thereby subsidizing scholarships & financial aid for American students. Their presence allows more American students to afford college. It’s not a zero-sum game.
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International students generally pay a much higher tuition than a student from that state, or students from the United states.
The tuition cost is not the same for every student. It is based on residence, and whether you are a graduate or undergraduate student.
I have been saying this for a while. Losing all of that foreign student tuition will put universities in financial trouble. They should be fighting this crap along with the students.
They also bring knowledge of other places and cultures Americans benefit a huge amount from knowing. Teach people how to talk with and befriend people who are different, and they will never be a stranger in any place for long.
Yes. I teach & mentor many international students. They’re wonderful, and just like American students, each brings their own strengths, ideas, & skills. They make my classroom & college a better place.
For universities that provide institutional scholarships. Most scholarships are need based, so is Pell. Which once again leaves middle class students in the dust with little support from institutions unless you are by grades, top of your class.
Unfortunately it requires a modicum of object permanence and a willingness to engage in argument beyond cheap soundbites to understand this idea, meaning you would be hard pressed to successfully communicate it to an individual like J.D.
I mean not like calling out hypocrisy works on these guys bc I’m sure Vance imagines himself a special little boy who truly deserved whatever help he got paying for his school whereas others are undeserving
According to his book: "the financial aid package Yale offered exceeded my wildest dreams. In my first year, it was nearly a full ride. That wasn’t because of anything I’d done or earned—it was because I was one of the poorest kids in school. Yale offered tens of thousands in need-based aid"(p 198)
Many public colleges and universities have had their support from conservative state and federal governments cut and make that up through these full-tuition students.
I was fully aware of this even as a 19 year old attending an elite engineering school. As a white kid of modest means, I was the diversity admission. Foreign students’ wealthy parents and Pell Grants are the reason I didn’t end up working in a wood products mill.
Same thing happening to our universities here since they cut back international students. Those students pay 3 times as much as we do and that's a significant amount of their budget. Teachers are being laid off and courses are being canceled.
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The tuition cost is not the same for every student. It is based on residence, and whether you are a graduate or undergraduate student.
One aspect of fascism is isolating the country question from all other people(s).
I've not been impressed by their skillset, but by their willingness and ability to learn.
I've personally been championing their retention, even post graduation with permanent positions.
But this is in Canada.
I’m not saying there aren’t problems with the system. But international students taking spots from US students isn’t the problem.
Who covered his tuition