Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced Wednesday that he has directed the Florida Board of Governors to “pull the plug” on the use of H-1B visas to fill jobs at public universities in his state.
Like two ships passing in the night, proponents and opponents of H1-B visas can’t see the forest through the trees. The void of American workers for qualified H‑1B positions was really caused by the ever-increasing scale and relaxed requirements of F‑1 student visas, and universities depending on international enrollment to balance budgets. Admissions at leading public institutions like Georgia Tech have become as competitive as elite private universities, yet a material share of limited undergraduate seats increasingly goes to non‑U.S. students who can pay full tuition and additional fees.
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville spelled out his “fantasy dream” for punishing Trump “collaborators” after the president leaves office in 2029 — he said their heads should be shaved, they should be clad in orange jumpsuits, and then marched down Pennsylvania Avenue while the public spits on them.
The Trump administration is finding that getting some of the country’s most prestigious universities to be more politically diverse is a heavy lift – even when the schools are offered funding priority.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has introduced a bill to prohibit accreditors from compelling institutions to adopt race- or sex-based quotas.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated that the Trump administration wants to reach arrangements with universities on research that they do with taxpayer dollars and the patents they get from
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” New York City Councilman Robert Holden (D), who is supporting Republican Curtis Sliwa’s candidacy for mayor of New York City, stated that the rise of socialist candidates for mayor of
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) said that there is “always fair room for criticism about how universities have engaged in groupthink in recent decades, and that may be very fair,” but “the way that
France suspended receiving Palestinians for investigation into how student sharing antisemitic posts was allowed into the country.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened investigations into five universities to determine whether they are granting exclusionary scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or undocumented students in violation of civil rights law.
A major Orthodox Jewish advocacy group has launched a high-profile billboard campaign in Times Square, branding the anti-Israel slogan “Free Palestine” as a call for genocide against Jews and warning that the movement poses a growing threat to American society.
The DOJ announced the creation of the “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” to crack down on any university that receives federal funds but “knowingly violates federal civil rights laws.”
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder praised President Donald Trump for withholding federal funds from U.S. universities in response to rising antisemitism.
President Donald J. Trump issued a solemn proclamation on Wednesday marking the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, honoring the memory of six million Jews murdered, while sharply rebuking “leftist, anti-American colleges and universities” for fueling the resurgence of antisemitism in the United States.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that schools haven’t dealt with antisemitism and “the federal government, which is pumping billions of dollars into higher education, has the right to expect some degree of
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Yale Law Professor Harold Koh stated that the Trump administration is incorrectly trying to characterize certain universities as political, but they’re just places that challenge ideas and impart knowledge like “climate change
During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Harvard Professor and former Harvard President Larry Summers argued that institutions of higher education have made “very serious” errors and deserve to “be pressured and pressured with escalating strength to change that.” And
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) stated that antisemitism is “an endemic problem on too many universities. The wrong way to respond is to stamp right-wing politics onto universities in the name
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated that universities “do some very critical research” that is used by the government and “a lot of good work comes out of that research.” But it’s fair
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said that higher education “has fundamentally lost its way and it’s increasingly out of touch and the tuition rates go higher and higher.” And there must be
During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that President Donald Trump threatening federal grants to major schools like Harvard and Columbia is authoritarian. Sanders said, “The idea that the president of the United States
During an interview with CBS News on Monday, President of the American Association of University Professors Todd Wolfson said the Trump administration demanding control over “what was taught around Middle Eastern Studies, around how we admit students” at Columbia University
The Department of Education on Friday opened investigations into 45 universities over alleged race-based preferences and policies.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) argued that universities should have their endowments taxed and “These people should be getting no federal funding.” While discussing Columbia University, Hawley said, “By the way,
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would tax “woke” university’s endowments and cancel student loans for “criminal” protestors.
President Donald Trump says he will cut off federal funding to schools and universities that allow “illegal protests.”
Several major universities have warned their international students who went to their home countries for winter break to return to the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump regains office in January.
President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledges to eliminate the federal Department of Education and cancel the accreditation of “woke” universities drew new attention on Monday, as old videos of his policies were recirculated.
Argentine lawmakers voted on Wednesday to uphold President Javier Milei’s veto of a controversial university financing bill that the government denounced as jeopardizing its fiscal balance and economic recovery goals.
Four years after landmark reports by the Trump Department of Education and the Clarion Project revealed billions of dollars in foreign money were flowing into American universities — much of it from hostile powers such as China — a new study from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) revealed that the “flow of foreign money from adversarial countries into our universities” has continued.
Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil announced on Monday that visa fees for international students have been more than doubled – a transparent, if not explicit, attempt to clamp down on heavy migration, especially from China.
Bloomberg News on Tuesday published an exposé on the relationship between China’s Huawei telecom giant and Optica, a nonprofit scientific foundation based in Washington, DC.
International Christian Concern (ICC) President Jeff King warns pro-Hamas rallies are flourshing on campuses with the aid of Qatari funding.
China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is introducing legislation to stop Joe Biden from offering taxpayer-funded college prep programs to illegal aliens.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt argued that donations to colleges and universities from Qatar does lead to college administrators and presidents thinking twice “before doing something that might upset their patrons” and called
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz argued that various studies departments such as “Black Studies, Gay Studies, South Asian Studies, Jewish Studies” should all be abolished. Dershowitz stated, “[T]hese departments have tenured
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called for Harvard, Penn, and MIT to lose federal funding if the House’s investigation finds they aren’t providing a safe environment for students and to
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Harvard Professor and President Emeritus and former Harvard President Larry Summers stated that there has been a reluctance to strongly respond to antisemitism because “in a variety of communities that regard themselves as highly
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said that university presidents will be called before the committee to testify on how they’re handling antisemitism and support for
