foreign students

American Students Are Not Lazy or Stupid. They Are Malnourished.

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on July 14, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Buried in a recent report from the Economic Innovation Group is a statistic that should make every university administrator in America lose sleep: Foreign-born workers who arrived […]

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Harvard Can’t Afford to Lose Its Foreign Students. Trump Knows It.

Harvard does not trust the Trump administration. The Trump administration does not trust Harvard. Yet, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. The best way forward is for Harvard—and other elite schools—to make a deal on one important aspect of their dispute: Provide admissions transparency in exchange for student visa forbearance. If that […]

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Loving Your Country Means Funding Its Minds

The joy of learning to build something useful, of unearthing what no one has seen before, of understanding what was once obscure or even a mystery, of finally putting the data together, of creating something new are intellectual and spiritual joys. The satisfaction of disciplining yourself to effectuate a goal, of working with a team, […]

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The Trump Administration and International Student Enrollment at Harvard

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Harvard Salient on May 22, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s styleguidles, it is crossposted here with permission.  Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to suspend international students’ current and future enrollment at Harvard University, citing serious concerns about national security, institutional noncompliance, and a […]

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Foreign Students Price Americans Out of Their Own Workforce

Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. With headlines dominated […]

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Deporting Radicalism: Trump’s Crackdown on Anti-Israel Campus Protests

On February 1, reports emerged that Liu Lijun, a Chinese national studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing deportation after participating in anti-Israel protests on campus. Liu’s case marks one of the first applications of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29. This order targets—among other things—foreign students […]

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Popping the Higher Education Bubble

Nearly a decade ago, my then colleague Andrew Gillen suggested that one could say that higher education was in a bit of a “bubble”: over-exuberant “investors” in human capital, better known as students, were potentially misallocating their resources, becoming increasingly underemployed after graduation, leading to adverse financial consequences. In the private sector, bubbles, like those […]

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