This week, let's help vulnerable international students who attend US universities.
Below, I'm going to paste the text of a letter I sent my senators. It's best if you tie in your own experience, but feel free to copy/paste and use as needed.
Mar 30, 2025 18:36I work in the higher ed industry, and am very concerned about this administration's move to cut the funding of institutions that
- conduct scientific research
- support minority students
- allow their students to exercise their first amendment rights
- teach history
The withdrawal of funding across the board is bad enough, but to allow the executive branch to target institutions where protests have taken place, or where international students have enrolled, is further threatening the entire higher ed industry in the United States.
And a quote in Inside Higher Ed from a DOJ official confirms that they know that affecting international students impacts an important source of revenue for US Universities.
We need to fight back against this move towards fascism through destruction of our institutions of higher learning. And we need to protect the rights of students and instructors!
Here's the article from Inside Higher Ed
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Trump Administration Revokes 300 Student Visas, More to Come
The Trump administration has revoked more than 300 international students’ visas in the past three weeks, according to reporting from Axios.
If you are the alum of an impacted university, you can mention that.
I also wrote a university I have a degree from to let them know how disappointed I was that they ended their DEI programs, and let them know I would not be donating as an alum until they restored those programs.
