Day: December 17, 2025

What the New International Enrollment Drop Really Shows

The State Department–sponsored Open Doors report shows a 17 percent decline in new international students enrolling in American graduate programs this fall. The figure is eye-catching, but it is hard to see what its larger import may be, since the same report finds that total international student enrollment has declined by only one percent. More […]

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The Right’s Retreat from the Liberal Arts and Its Intellectual Costs

When the Trump administration issued an executive order to slash Department of Education (ED) funding earlier this year, the left responded with outrage, painting an apocalyptic scenario in which students would lose access to educational resources and critical research funding would be redirected into the pockets of billionaires. As Senator Elizabeth Warren lamented in March, […]

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